entangled
part of speech
adjective (entangled); also past tense and past participle of entangle
meaning for a pupil
1) Caught and twisted up in string, rope, nets, hair or plants so it cannot move freely. tree →
2) Twisted together in a messy knot. tree →
3) Mixed up in a difficult situation, problem or relationship. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Pharaoh says the Israelites are lost and tangled up in the land, with no way out of the wilderness. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as Pharaoh's false thought that lured him to chase Israel to the sea, and God led him to it on purpose. In the primary lessons: Common in nature and safety texts («a seal entangled in netting»), in everyday life («entangled hair», «entangled wires») and in stories where characters are «entangled in a web of lies». It tells the reader that something is stuck or hard to get out of.
examples
- And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. (Torah EXO.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- The bird was entangled in fishing line. tree →
- My hair got entangled in the zip. tree →
- The rescuers freed the entangled whale. tree →
- The roots were entangled under the ground. tree →
- She got entangled in a quarrel between her friends. tree →
- His shoelaces were entangled in the bike chain. tree →
- The kittens rolled about, entangled in the wool. tree →
- This one had been caught by hounds when his tail had become entangled in the hedge. tree →
note
Past form of entangle: entangled. Used with «in»: entangled in. In physics, «entangled» also names a special link between tiny particles — that is far beyond primary school.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «entangled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.