entangled
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5.3
- adjective
- /ɪnˈtæŋɡəld/
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enredado
- After many hours of discussion, their conversation became entangled in topics that were unrelated to their original purpose.
So you're saying you and I are entangled with each other, right?
- So you're saying you and I are entangled with each other, right?
- These can be in what's called an entangled state.
- Here we are talking about AI and God and these, you know, entangled philosophical questions.
- The quantum radar uses entangled particles of light, the photons.
- And maybe a better way to put it is the less entangled you are, the less damaging it will be.
- Ultimately the story becomes, well, there's several things entangled there, right?
- And what you're saying is that women are more likely to feel emotionally entangled with sexual partners in general.
- First things first, quantum computers calculate with quantum bits, qubits for short, that can become entangled.
- OK, so when they get entangled, OK, then you can separate them by any distance, millions of miles.
- Well, OK, if you create a particle, you can create a pair of particles that are entangled with each other where they have complementary properties.
Examples
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By comparison, a human standing in the sunlight is far more entangled with those photons than with anything emanating from another person.
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This is just one of many junctures in the long entangled history of human and rat.
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It's now become a system which is entangled with the eye, with the eye and brain.
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Here we are talking about AI and God and these, you know, entangled philosophical questions.
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Language and thought were regarded as either totally entangled or maybe identical.
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Oh, my dear friend, I'm so entangled with this woman that I don't know how to extricate myself.
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He was far less entangled and confused than ever before and felt no compulsive urges to do anything.
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He found himself entangled in a web of lies that made it difficult for him to trust anyone again.
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The old fishing nets were entangled in the rocks, creating a hazard for boats nearby.
Synonyms
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5.4
Difficult to understand or deal with because it has many connected parts
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8.6
Very complicated and hard to follow, often not needed
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6.8
Very complicated and hard to follow, like rules or relationships
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4.9
Surrounded by mist or cloud that makes it hard to see
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7.9
Being very busy with a lot of difficult work or problems
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8.1
Difficult to solve or understand, often about problems
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7.5
Caught up in something so you cannot easily leave
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7.8
In a bad situation that stops progress like being stuck in mud
Closely linked or mixed so they cannot be easily separated
Deeply involved in a difficult or public dispute
Antonyms
How Entangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Entangled comes from en- meaning 'in' and tangle meaning 'a twist or knot', so it literally means 'in a tangle' like hair caught in a brush. That's why something or someone entangled is stuck or caught up in a confusing or difficult situation.