(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.
Trammel
Definition:
(n.) A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
(n.) A net for confining a woman's hair.
(n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
(n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
(n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
(n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
(n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.
(v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
(v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Warden Anita Trammell said she thought Lockett spoke.
(2) Sensitization results from handling nets (drag-nets and trammels) or, less frequently, fish trays.
(3) Normal-hearing (NH) children (N:35) aged 9-11 yrs in regular classrooms were given all 10 subtests of the Test of Auditory Comprehension (TAC) (Trammel, 1976).
(4) Enrolled in Harold Washington College, Trammell said he was convinced to support Emanuel based on his recent decision to offer free tuition in the city college system to Chicago public schools graduate with at least a 3.0 grade-point average.
(5) I thought he was a political hack but then he starting making these good policies,” Trammell said.
(6) Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man" and warden Anita Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered.
(7) For Jordan Trammell, 28, who moved to Chicago from Tennessee in October, Emanuel was not the mayor he expected based on his reputation as brash and uncompromising.
(8) Another witness said Trammell asked “if they could bring him back to life” and he thought the physician “said no”, the document states.
(9) It frightens me that he is being trammelled at such a young age.
(10) The beige curtain separating the execution chamber from the viewing area was opened and the state prison warden, Anita Trammell, stood over 38-year-old Lockett.
(11) In November’s election for the House seat, Brat will face Democratic nominee Jack Trammell, also a professor at Randolph-Macon College on the outskirts of Richmond.
(12) Trammell asked the doctor if resuscitating Lockett was possible, according to the court filing.
(13) Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man," and Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered.