What's the difference between entangle and perplex?

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.

Perplex


Definition:

  • (a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
  • (a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
  • (a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen.
  • (a.) Intricate; difficult.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
  • (2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
  • (3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
  • (4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
  • (5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
  • (6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
  • (7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
  • (8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
  • (9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
  • (10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
  • (11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
  • (12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
  • (13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
  • (14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
  • (15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
  • (16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
  • (17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
  • (18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
  • (19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
  • (20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.