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Gewirr — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • entanglement noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
  • knot noun A fastening made by looping and tightening a piece of string, rope, or similar material.
  • tangle verb To twist together into a knotted, confused mass.

Senses

Gewirr is used for these senses in English:

  • entanglement The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
  • knot A maze-like pattern.
  • tangle A tangled twisted mass.
  • tangle A complicated or confused state or condition.

entanglement — full definition

  1. noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
  2. noun A complicated or compromising involvement with someone or something, especially a romantic or sexual relationship that is difficult to get out of.
  3. noun In physics, a quantum effect in which two or more particles share a single combined state, so that measuring one instantly determines the corresponding property of the other however far apart they are.

knot — full definition

  1. noun A fastening made by looping and tightening a piece of string, rope, or similar material.
  2. noun A hard, tight lump in a muscle, or a tangled clump of hair.
  3. noun A unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used for ships and aircraft.
  4. verb To tie something into a knot.

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