(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.
Untangle
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more “What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but [Isis],” secretary of state John Kerry said.
(2) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(3) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(4) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
(5) Such agreement to begin reining in respective proxies is necessary in the process of untangling the mess of foreign interests that has been tearing Syria apart for the last five years.
(6) Dawn Foster Contributing editor, Guardian housing network Central government: untangling British and European laws could cause years of instability Amid the uncertainty around what a UK vote to leave the EU could mean for central government, one thing is clear.
(7) The objective of the current study was to untangle the effects of a number of variables likely to affect autonomic activation during human speech.
(8) In the abscence of a priori knowledge of the functional form, it is difficult to untangle true effects from spurious ones.
(9) A world where cycling could become so safe it was actually relaxing again, and traffic jams untangled themselves, and pollution didn’t choke cities to death after all.
(10) "Polygraph was an act of mourning, a way to untangle very, very dark feelings about that event," Lepage says.
(11) Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny ( Naomie Harris ) and Q ( Ben Whishaw ) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of SPECTRE.
(12) Beyond SW1, it is hoped that businesses will volunteer to untangle themselves from the old boy net.
(13) I was faced with a labyrinth of political, religious and cultural elements that from the outside seemed impossible to understand much less untangle.
(14) Here’s a three-point plan to untangle it | Andrew Allen Read more While Southern’s plans for onboard supervisors have been approved by the independent rail safety body, the RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, told the transport select committee that there were genuine safety concerns over making drivers responsible for closing the doors on crowded platforms, and that there were insufficient guarantees over future staffing of trains.
(15) Seabirds are one of most threatened groups of birds in the world, but untangling the effects of multiple threats to seabirds is a challenge, one which underlines the importance of ongoing research such as this which helps determine vulnerability of different species.” The findings are published in the journal Science Advances.
(16) I had plenty of fashion cupboard experience, but to them I was new so my first task was to untangle a massive pile of coat hangers.
(17) However, while clinical observations of human behavior are particularly relevant, it is difficult to untangle confounding factors and thus determine unequivocal causal relationships.
(18) The move is part of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s bid to “untangle” stalled investments from red tape.
(19) The weather had cleared and Machado was back on the roof, untangling wire, when Bumba’s summit suddenly cratered out.
(20) Ellis is very well-informed about the complexities of disability policy, after spending thousands of hours untangling refused benefit applications, and attending hundreds of tribunals with clients, fighting for decisions not to award disability benefit to be overturned.