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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þ?ngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.

Verb

tangle (third-person singular simple present tangles, present participle tangling, simple past and past participle tangled)

1. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined
2. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

3. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine
4. (transitive) to catch and hold; to ensnare.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

     When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.

Synonyms

• (to become mixed together or intertwined): dishevel, tousle
• (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight): argue, conflict, dispute, fight
• (to mix together or intertwine): entangle, knot, mat, snarl
• (to catch and hold): entrap

Antonyms

• (to mix together or intertwine): untangle, unsnarl

Derived terms

• betangle
• entangle

Translations

Noun

tangle (plural tangles)

1. A tangled twisted mass.
2. A complicated or confused state or condition.

3. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
4. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
5. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.

Synonyms

• (tangled twisted mass): knot, mess, snarl
• (complicated or confused state or condition): maze, snarl
• (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight): argument, conflict, dispute, fight

Derived terms

• tanglefish (Syngnathus acus)
• tanglesome

Translations

Etymology 2

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.

Noun

tangle (countable and uncountable, plural tangles)

2. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 10:

     Than if with thee the roaring wells / Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; / And hands so often clasped in mine, / Should toss with tangle and with shells.

   • 1917, Kenneth Macleod (editor) "The Road to the Isles", in Songs of the Hebrides:

     You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.

3. (in the plural) 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.
4. (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

Hyponyms

• kombu

Further reading

• tangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• gelant, langet, netlag

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• Rhymes: -e??s

Noun

chaos (usually uncountable, plural chaoses)

1. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
2. Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
3. (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
4. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
5. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
6. (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
   • , II.ii.3:

     What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

• (classical cosmogony): cosmos
• (state of disorder): order

Derived terms

Related terms

• chaotropic
• chaotropism

Translations

See also

• entropy
• discord
• capricious

Anagrams

• Socha, oshac

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch chaos, from Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Noun

chaos (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)
2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

Noun

chaos m

1. chaos

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa?.?s/
• Hyphenation: cha?os

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)

   Synonyms: baaierd, rommel, wanorde, warboel

2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Antonyms

• netheid
• orde

Derived terms

• chaostheoretisch
• chaostheorie
• chaotisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: chaos
• ? West Frisian: gaos
• ? Indonesian: kaos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.o/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos

Further reading

• “chaos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.os/, [?k?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.os/, [?k???s]

Noun

chaos n sg (genitive cha?); second declension

1. Alternative letter-case form of Chaos

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.

References

• chaos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• chaos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Etymology

From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.?s/

Noun

chaos m inan

1. chaos

Declension

Derived terms

• chaotyczny

Further reading

• chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN