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enredo — 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.
  • skein noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
  • snarl verb To growl and bare the teeth angrily, as an animal does.

Senses

enredo is used for these senses in English:

  • entanglement The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
  • skein (figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.
  • snarl A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.

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.

skein — full definition

  1. noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
  2. noun A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
  3. noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
  4. noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

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