tangle

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While this wasn't the only tangle I've ever had with a large company it was the worst I've had to endure.

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Quick take

a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tangle gathered in one view.

noun

a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"

noun

something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"

verb

force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tangle.

noun

a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"

noun

something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"

verb

force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"

verb

tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"

verb

disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair"

verb

twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"

Example sentences

While this wasn't the only tangle I've ever had with a large company it was the worst I've had to endure.

They tangle of banking and mortgage laws is different state by state, and in some cases county by county.

Is it a function, or a tangle of methods, or a data object, or a "singleton" module?

The memories that stick with me are of a massive tangle of configuration rules, mod_*, and htaccess files.

Uber was built from the ground up to tangle with cantankerous and corrupt authorities whose first impulse is to outlaw it.

A few years of use later, you are left with an unmaintainable tangle of ad hoc code written by an all-but-unknown cast of programmers.

As a small entity, any time you tangle with large well-funded companies you have to be very aware of the fact that they could shaft you in a dozen different ways whenever the please.

I log into Paypal about four times per year, and each time its a frustrating tangle of new user agreements, forced requirements to add new security questions, and ridiculous restrictions.

Instead of requiring a crazy tangled ness of polymorphism and mutable state.> Every non-trivial program is going to have to define abstract datatypesAbsolutely true.

Given the tangle of dependancies involved in a properly functioning human, why put focused effort into patching something as easily remediated as the inability to synthesize Vitamin C, given the opportunity for unforeseen side effects?I think he just doesn't want to eat his applesauce like a good wittle man.