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# entanglement

«entanglement» in Mova's school dictionary: **when things are twisted and caught together, like string…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (entanglement, entanglements); verb entangle

### meaning for a pupil

1) An entanglement is when things are twisted and caught together, like string, nets or wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#m1)

2) An entanglement is a difficult or confusing situation or relationship you are caught up in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#m2)

3) (science) Quantum entanglement is a strange link between tiny particles studied by physicists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Nature and conservation lessons: entanglement of whales, turtles and birds in fishing nets and plastic. In stories, emotional or political entanglements. Phrases: entanglement in nets, barbed-wire entanglements, romantic entanglement.

### examples

- Plastic rings can cause entanglement of seabirds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x1)
- The diver freed the turtle from its entanglement in the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x2)
- Our kite strings ended up in a big entanglement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x3)
- The soldiers crawled under barbed-wire entanglements. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x4)
- He wanted no entanglement in their argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x5)
- Quantum entanglement puzzles even scientists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#x6)

### note

Countable and uncountable. Verb: entangle (entangled in). Cutting plastic loops before recycling helps prevent animal entanglement.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entanglement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.