Tangled vs Recognise - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between tangled and recognise

is that tangled is (tangle) while recognise is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

tangled

English

Verb

(head)

(tangle)

tangle

English

(wikipedia tangle)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; apparently a variant form of (tagle).

Verb

(tangl)

to become mixed together or intertwined

Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

to be forced into some kind of situation

to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

He tangled with the law.

to mix together or intertwine

to catch and hold

* Milton

Tangled in amorous nets.

* Crashaw

When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.

Synonyms

* (to become mixed together or intertwined) dishevel, tousle * (to be forced into some kind of situation) drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up * argue, conflict, dispute, fight * (to mix together or intertwine) entangle, knot, mat, snarl * (to catch and hold) entrap

Antonyms

* (to mix together or intertwine) untangle, unsnarl

Noun

(en noun)

A tangled twisted mass.

A complicated or confused state or condition.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

Synonyms

* (tangled twisted mass) knot, mess, snarl * (complicated or confused state or condition) maze, snarl * argument, conflict, dispute, fight

Etymology 2

Of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic .

Noun

(en noun)

Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria .

* 1849 , , In Memoriam , 10:

Than if with thee the roaring wells / Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; / And hands so often clasped in mine, / Should toss with tangle and with shells.

(in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.

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Anagrams

* English ergative verbs

recognise

English

Alternative forms

* recognize (US )

Verb

(recognis)

To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.

To acknowledge or consider as something.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}

To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}

To give an award.