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intreccio — 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.
  • shag noun A tangled or shaggy mass of hair or fibres, or a thick, rough carpet pile.

Senses

intreccio is used for these senses in English:

  • entanglement The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
  • shag Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

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.

shag — full definition

  1. noun A tangled or shaggy mass of hair or fibres, or a thick, rough carpet pile.
  2. noun Coarse, shredded tobacco.
  3. noun A cormorant-like seabird found along European coasts (Phalacrocorax aristotelis).
  4. verb To have sex with someone (crude slang).

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