(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.
Unwind
Definition:
(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
(v. t.) To disentangle.
(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
(2) Of the 47 compounds that were positive or equivocal in the alkaline unwinding assay, only carbon tetrachloride and prednisolone were negative in the mouse lymphoma assay, while 12 of the 19 compounds that were negative in the alkaline unwinding assay were positive in the mouse lymphoma assay.
(3) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(4) This limited unwinding of heterologous duplex DNA, termed heterologous unwinding, was detected within 30 seconds and reached a steady state within a few minutes.
(5) Comparison of the superhelix densities obtained by both methods permits a calculation of an unwinding angle for ethidium.
(6) The exposure of the cells from mussel haemolymph and from mouse L1210 to a genotoxic compound such as dimethylsulfate results in DNA damage and consequently in a reduction of the unwinding time.
(7) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(8) Chromosome replication appears to initiate in E. coli when the dnaA boxes in oriC become filled with DnaA protein, which could simultaneously mediate both the unwinding of the origin for the start of polymerization and the attachment of oriC to the cell envelope (Bramhill and Kornberg, 1988; Løbner-Olesen et al., 1989; Pierucci et al., 1989).
(9) The protein fraction containing the 93 000 dalton protein had considerable unwinding activity, depressing the melting temperature of poly(dA-dT) by 39 degrees C. The protein fraction containing the bulk of the 35 000 dalton protein did not have unwinding activity.
(10) The required cellular protein may be a eukaryotic single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), since unwinding of the template is also observed when Escherichia coli SSB is substituted for the HeLa protein fraction.
(11) Evidence is presented that the first step in initiation of SV40 DNA replication involves the specific binding of T antigen to the origin, followed by the local unwinding of the two strands of the template.
(12) Complex formation leads to very little, if any, unwinding of the duplex.
(13) It is suggested that the gene D product may function in replicative form DNA unwinding to expose the template for transcription.
(14) Topotecan (SK&F 104864) is a novel antitumor agent whose mechanism of action is inhibition of the DNA unwinding protein topoisomerase I.
(15) We used an RNA unwinding assay to compare the activities of these factors from the different species.
(16) The extension and unwinding of the DNA helix brought about by the intercalating chromophore of the dye molecules are not requirements for the entrapment process.
(17) Second, mutant T antigens with impaired ATPase function also showed a reduced DNA unwinding activity.
(18) Analysts at UBS said: “After Friday’s ... market plunge, many turned to the authorities for support measures as concerns rose that the rapid unwinding of margin trades was fuelling the sell-off.
(19) It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants.
(20) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.