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
- noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
- noun A complicated or compromising involvement with someone or something, especially a romantic or sexual relationship that is difficult to get out of.
- 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
- noun A fastening made by looping and tightening a piece of string, rope, or similar material.
- noun A hard, tight lump in a muscle, or a tangled clump of hair.
- noun A unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used for ships and aircraft.
- verb To tie something into a knot.