(v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
(v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Research to develop and ensure diffusion of smoking prevention programs must (a) be based on an appreciation of the social, psychological, and biological determinants at each stage in the onset process, (b) disentangle major interactions between program content, participant, provider, and setting factors as they determine impact, and (c) ensure both that diffusion is based on empirically grounded principles and that the process is monitored and its effectiveness evaluated.
(2) Felipe sought on Thursday to disentangle the monarchy from controversy.
(3) Much of the story, however, is doubtful; perhaps now, with Carr's death, it may be possible to disentangle some of the strands of insinuation, legal spin and lies.
(4) The results are discussed in relation to selection and gene flow and provide the basis for laboratory studies to disentangle confounded effects of (1) environmental means and environmental variabilities and (2) allele frequency and heterozygosity, and thus to further test for and determine the nature of any natural selection at particular allozyme loci.
(5) The aim was to analyse trends in mortality from peptic ulcer in Italy between 1955 and 1985, disentangling the role of age, cohort of birth, and period of death.
(6) I think they also believe when people start to look at the practical consequences of disentangling ourselves from this very complicated relationship, then maybe we will think again.” The European media coverage of the UK’s Brexit debate fuels the belief the UK could change its mind.
(7) Since in practice, genetic, nutritional and environmental factors are not readily disentangled, norms for a given study population need to be derived from healthy subjects of similar background and ethnicity.
(8) Coexisting epileptic and psychogenic symptoms being difficult to disentangle patients presenting both may be exposed to unfortunate alternating therapeutic strategies by ambitendent therapists.
(9) The transatlantic backdrop Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable .
(10) Thus, unreported environmental effects common to progeny of individual sires may also be involved in the observed interaction but could not be disentangled from true genotype x environment interaction effects using these data.
(11) But it's a pick'n'mix sort of philosophy that'd take a greater intellect than mine to disentangle.
(12) Arthur MacGregor, archaeologist and recently retired curator of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, has tried to disentangle the competing claims.
(13) Both strains present a different susceptibility to a unique challenge with the mycobacterium which could be useful to disentangle the immunogenetic components involved, by means of appropriate selection and crosses.
(14) Once Allende took office, Korry sought accommodation with the new government, conceding that expropriations of the telephone and copper concessions (actually begun under Frei) were necessary to disentangle Chile from seven decades of 'incestuous and corrupting' dependency.
(15) Some of the Turkish-backed groups had been asked to disentangle themselves from jihadi groups that are active in parts of the war for the north.
(16) But disentangling a hostile local population from the al-Qaida fighters and leaders who have infiltrated the region will be a hugely difficult task.
(17) Further work is planned using more sophisticated statistical techniques to disentangle the relative contribution of each of these highly intercorrelated factors.
(18) Several alternative methods are made available for disentangling peaks, which can be tried successively on a single peak then each printed out with comments for comparison later.
(19) You don’t have the self-knowledge you think you do.” It took him a few years – until he found himself in another serious relationship – to begin to disentangle what had happened.
(20) Heavy drinking and heavy smoking are often associated; the effects of either alcohol and tobacco on human cancer can not be easily disentangled.
Entangle
Definition:
(v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
(v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Was all the entanglement research done in the meantime, including Einstein's, unscientific metaphysics?
(2) Americans Stuart Freedman and Jon Clauser and French physicist Alain Aspect were the first to verify quantum entanglement experimentally.
(3) The commonest causes of death were pneumonia and entanglement in fishing gear.
(4) Monoamniotic twin pregnancy involves a heavy risk of fatal umbilical cord entanglement.
(5) Even extraembryonic membranes can form strands of tissue that can entangle the delicate developing foot plate, and calcaneovalgus deformities could conceivably be established.
(6) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.
(7) These difficulties are not easy to approach as much as psychological and organic factors may be entangled.
(8) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
(9) Nuclei appear to be entangled in the channel system and move in an unusual, rolling fashion.
(10) The web of human entanglement resulting from the cry "rape" may twist and disrupt the lives of the persons involved.
(11) The congestive cases were characterized by decreased and disdarrayed myofibrils (loose myofibril disorientation), wheras the hypertrophic cases by abundant myofibrils characteristically entangled with each other (tight myofibril disorientation).
(12) Scanning electron microscopy indicates that these aggregates are surface microvilli entangled with attached EPEC.
(13) During a visit to Britain before he launched his campaign, Walker was so anxious to avoid awkward entanglements that he refused to say whether he believed in evolution, an incident that set of a chain of increasingly controversial comments on social issues.
(14) Although monoamniotic twins frequently die related to cord knotting, sonographic visualization of cord entanglement does not imply impending demise.
(15) Deposits consisted of dense aggregations of randomly entangled spicules spreading within bundles of collagen fibrils.
(16) It would be a little surprising if TNC didn't invest in fossil fuels, given its various other entanglements with the sector.
(17) Umbilical cord entanglement was found in 34% of 555 women in labour.
(18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
(19) The gel network in mucus may not be infinite, but only an effectively entangled system of very large molecules.
(20) Thermally reversible aqueous gels (crystallized from an under-cooled, rubbery melt) are described by a "fringed micelle" structural model for a three-dimensional polymer network, composed of microcrystalline junction zones crosslinking plasticized amorphous regions of flexible-coiled, entangled chain segments.