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/ɛntˈæŋgəlmənt/ /ɪntˈæŋgəlmənt/ Listen

noun

Entanglement n.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

(Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.

(Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance.

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Etymology of 'Entanglement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entanglement" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Many call this valley 'Entanglement,'" further continued Mr. World, "because of the large numbers who are here caught by the devices all along the way." I saw the whole valley in one view. It was very wide and more than a thousand experiences long and, from one ...

— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris

... usurped a kind of dictatorship in the sciences and taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence, yet when from time to time they come to themselves again, they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature, the hiding-places of truth, the obscurity of things, the entanglement of causes, the weakness of the human mind; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest, seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of man and nature than upon themselves. And then ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... detained us long by their size and by the storms on their coasts, and were sailing on into a tract of calmer sea, where the islands, though numerous, are but specks in comparison. The reason of this is that we are now out of the main entanglement of the Salmasius and Morus controversy. Milton had taken leave of that subject, and indeed of controversy ...

— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

... just the case—that ambiguity runs through him in everything. Burke has found an admirable word for it in the Persian tongue, for which we have no translation, but it means an intricacy involved so deep as to be nearly unfathomable—an artificial entanglement." ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

... terror shooting through him like spears of ice, he grabbed the matchbox, and after a frenzied entanglement again with sheets and pillow-case, succeeded in breaking four matches in quick succession. They cracked, it seemed to him, like pistol shots, till he half expected that this creature, waiting there in the darkness, must leap out in the ...

— The Human Chord • Algernon Blackwood

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