English-German translations for tangle

• Durcheinander das
• Gewirr das
  Abschließend möchte ich auf das byzantinische Gewirr der Komitologie eingehen. Finally, we should refer to the Byzantine tangle of comitology.
  Heute sehen wir uns aber einem Gewirr von Programmen und einem echten Sammelsurium zusammenhangloser Maßnahmen gegenüber. But today we are facing a tangled web of programmes and a mountain of incoherent measures.
• Chaos das
• sich verstricken
• verfitzen
• verwirren
• wirres Knäuel das
• Wirrwarr der
  Die Berichterstatterin war sehr explizit, aber man versteht absolut nichts, da wir von einer Verordnung sprechen, die ein Wirrwarr an Undurchsichtigkeiten und Ausnahmen ist. The rapporteur has been very explicit but has no understanding of why we have a regulation which is a tangle of incomprehensibilities and exceptions.
• Zores

Definition of tangle

• to become mixed together or intertwined
• to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
• to mix together or intertwine
• A tangled twisted mass
• An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
• A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns
• Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of ''Laminaria''
• An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea

Examples

• Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind
• Dont tangle with someone three times your size
• He tangled with the law
• I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere

Related words

• rectangle
• entangle
• untangle
• entanglement
• detangle
• tangled
• disentangle
• rectangles
• entangled