Tangle

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

• an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving

• an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim

• the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

• an interconnected system of things or people

• computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol

• a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)

• membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals

• construct or form a web, as if by weaving

• entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh