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angling
(encz) | angling,chytání ryb udicí adj: Zdeněk Brož |
angling
(encz) | angling,rybaření n: Zdeněk Brož |
Angling
(gcide) | Angle \An"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Angled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Angling.]
1. To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
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2. To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as,
to angle for praise.
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The hearts of all that he did angle for. --Shak.
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Angling
(gcide) | Angling \An"gling\, n.
The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and
line. --Walton.
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angling
(wn) | angling
n 1: fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) |
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angling
(encz) | angling,chytání ryb udicí adj: Zdeněk Brožangling,rybaření n: Zdeněk Brož |
dangling
(encz) | dangling,houpající (se) adj: webdangling,klácení n: Zdeněk Brož |
dangling modifier
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dangling participle
(encz) | dangling participle, n: |
disentangling
(encz) | disentangling, |
entangling
(encz) | entangling,kompromitující adj: Zdeněk Brožentangling,zaplétající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
gangling
(encz) | gangling,vytáhlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
jangling
(encz) | jangling, |
mangling
(encz) | mangling,mandlování n: Zdeněk Brož |
strangling
(encz) | strangling,škrtící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tangling
(encz) | tangling, |
untangling
(encz) | untangling, |
wangling
(encz) | wangling, n: |
wrangling
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Bespangling
(gcide) | Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.]
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
brilliant or glittering.
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The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
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Brangling
(gcide) | Brangle \Bran"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Brangling.]
To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. [R.]
[1913 Webster]Brangling \Bran"gling\, n.
A quarrel. [R.] --Whitlock.
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Dangling
(gcide) | Dangle \Dan"gle\ (d[a^][ng]"g'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dangled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Dangling.] [Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw.
dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E.
ding.]
To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
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He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. --Hudibras.
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From her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon. --Tennyson.
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To dangle about or To dangle after, to hang upon
importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
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The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle
after them,
are well inclined to pull down the present
establishment. --Swift.
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Disentangling
(gcide) | disentangle \dis`en*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Disentangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling.]
1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of
being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced;
to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as,
to disentangle a skein of yarn.
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2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage
from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to
disembroil; to set free; to separate.
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To disentangle truth from error. --Stewart.
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To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this
labyrinth. --Clarendon.
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A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal
mixtures. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
Syn: To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear;
evolve; disengage; separate; detach.
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Entangling
(gcide) | Entangle \En*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Entangling.]
1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be
easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and
intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
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2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication
a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to
insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to
entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling
alliances." --Washington.
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The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and
entangle their understandings. --Locke.
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Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose
future was so uncertain. --Froude.
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Ground angling
(gcide) | ground \ground\ (ground), n. [OE. ground, grund, AS. grund; akin
to D. grond, OS., G., Sw., & Dan. grund, Icel. grunnr bottom,
Goth. grundus (in composition); perh. orig. meaning, dust,
gravel, and if so perh. akin to E. grind.]
1. The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or
some indefinite portion of it.
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There was not a man to till the ground. --Gen. ii.
5.
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The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix. 23.
Hence: A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the
earth.
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2. Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region;
territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or
resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place
of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground.
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From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian ground. --Milton.
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3. Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens,
lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the
grounds of the estate are well kept.
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Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds.
--Dryden. 4.
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4. The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The
foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise,
reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of
existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as,
the ground of my hope.
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5. (Paint. & Decorative Art)
(a) That surface upon which the figures of a composition
are set, and which relieves them by its plainness,
being either of one tint or of tints but slightly
contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a
white ground. See Background, Foreground, and
Middle-ground.
(b) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are
raised in relief.
(c) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the
embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground.
See Brussels lace, under Brussels.
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6. (Etching) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a
metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except
where an opening is made by the needle.
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7. (Arch.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the
plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; --
usually in the plural.
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Note: Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering
floated flush with them.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few
bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to
a varying melody.
(b) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
--Moore (Encyc.).
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On that ground I'll build a holy descant.
--Shak.
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9. (Elec.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby
the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.
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10. pl. Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs;
lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.
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11. The pit of a theater. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Ground angling, angling with a weighted line without a
float.
Ground annual (Scots Law), an estate created in land by a
vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves
an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge
upon the land.
Ground ash. (Bot.) See Groutweed.
Ground bailiff (Mining), a superintendent of mines.
--Simmonds.
Ground bait, bits of bread, boiled barley or worms, etc.,
thrown into the water to collect the fish, --Wallon.
Ground bass or Ground base (Mus.), fundamental base; a
fundamental base continually repeated to a varied melody.
Ground beetle (Zool.), one of numerous species of
carnivorous beetles of the family Carabid[ae], living
mostly in burrows or under stones, etc.
Ground chamber, a room on the ground floor.
Ground cherry. (Bot.)
(a) A genus (Physalis) of herbaceous plants having an
inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry
tomato (Physalis Alkekengi). See Alkekengl.
(b) A European shrub (Prunus Cham[ae]cerasus), with
small, very acid fruit.
Ground cuckoo. (Zool.) See Chaparral cock.
Ground cypress. (Bot.) See Lavender cotton.
Ground dove (Zool.), one of several small American pigeons
of the genus Columbigallina, esp. C. passerina of the
Southern United States, Mexico, etc. They live chiefly on
the ground.
Ground fish (Zool.), any fish which constantly lives on the
botton of the sea, as the sole, turbot, halibut.
Ground floor, the floor of a house most nearly on a level
with the ground; -- called also in America, but not in
England, the first floor.
Ground form (Gram.), the stem or basis of a word, to which
the other parts are added in declension or conjugation. It
is sometimes, but not always, the same as the root.
Ground furze (Bot.), a low slightly thorny, leguminous
shrub (Ononis arvensis) of Europe and Central Asia,; --
called also rest-harrow.
Ground game, hares, rabbits, etc., as distinguished from
winged game.
Ground hele (Bot.), a perennial herb ({Veronica
officinalis}) with small blue flowers, common in Europe
and America, formerly thought to have curative properties.
Ground of the heavens (Astron.), the surface of any part of
the celestial sphere upon which the stars may be regarded
as projected.
Ground hemlock (Bot.), the yew (Taxus baccata var.
Canadensisi) of eastern North America, distinguished from
that of Europe by its low, straggling stems.
Ground hog. (Zool.)
(a) The woodchuck or American marmot (Arctomys monax).
See Woodchuck.
(b) The aardvark.
Ground hold (Naut.), ground tackle. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Ground ice, ice formed at the bottom of a body of water
before it forms on the surface.
Ground ivy. (Bot.) A trailing plant; alehoof. See Gill.
Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a.
sleeper.
Ground lark (Zool.), the European pipit. See Pipit.
Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under
Arbutus.
Ground line (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection
of the horizontal and vertical planes of projection.
Ground liverwort (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad
flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and
radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha).
Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a
churchyard.
Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a
rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are
embedded.
Ground parrakeet (Zool.), one of several Australian
parrakeets, of the genera Callipsittacus and
Geopsittacus, which live mainly upon the ground.
Ground pearl (Zool.), an insect of the family Coccid[ae]
(Margarodes formicarum), found in ants' nests in the
Bahamas, and having a shelly covering. They are strung
like beads, and made into necklaces by the natives.
Ground pig (Zool.), a large, burrowing, African rodent
(Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to
the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no
spines; -- called also ground rat.
Ground pigeon (Zool.), one of numerous species of pigeons
which live largely upon the ground, as the tooth-billed
pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), of the Samoan
Islands, and the crowned pigeon, or goura. See Goura,
and Ground dove (above).
Ground pine. (Bot.)
(a) A blue-flowered herb of the genus Ajuga ({A.
Cham[ae]pitys}), formerly included in the genus
Teucrium or germander, and named from its resinous
smell. --Sir J. Hill.
(b) A long, creeping, evergreen plant of the genus
Lycopodium (L. clavatum); -- called also {club
moss}.
(c) A tree-shaped evergreen plant about eight inches in
height, of the same genus (L. dendroideum) found in
moist, dark woods in the northern part of the United
States. --Gray.
Ground plan (Arch.), a plan of the ground floor of any
building, or of any floor, as distinguished from an
elevation or perpendicular section.
Ground plane, the horizontal plane of projection in
perspective drawing.
Ground plate.
(a) (Arch.) One of the chief pieces of framing of a
building; a timber laid horizontally on or near the
ground to support the uprights; a ground sill or
groundsel.
(b) (Railroads) A bed plate for sleepers or ties; a
mudsill.
(c) (Teleg.) A metallic plate buried in the earth to
conduct the electric current thereto. Connection to
the pipes of a gas or water main is usual in cities.
--Knight.
Ground plot, the ground upon which any structure is
erected; hence, any basis or foundation; also, a ground
plan.
Ground plum (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Astragalus
caryocarpus}) occurring from the Saskatchewan to Texas,
and having a succulent plum-shaped pod.
Ground rat. (Zool.) See Ground pig (above).
Ground rent, rent paid for the privilege of building on
another man's land.
Ground robin. (Zool.) See Chewink.
Ground room, a room on the ground floor; a lower room.
--Tatler.
Ground sea, the West Indian name for a swell of the ocean,
which occurs in calm weather and without obvious cause,
breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows; -- called
also rollers, and in Jamaica, the North sea.
Ground sill. See Ground plate (a) (above).
Ground snake (Zool.), a small burrowing American snake
(Celuta am[oe]na). It is salmon colored, and has a blunt
tail.
Ground squirrel. (Zool.)
(a) One of numerous species of burrowing rodents of the
genera Tamias and Spermophilus, having cheek
pouches. The former genus includes the Eastern
striped squirrel or chipmunk and some allied Western
species; the latter includes the prairie squirrel or
striped gopher, the gray gopher, and many allied
Western species. See Chipmunk, and Gopher.
(b) Any species of the African genus Xerus, allied to
Tamias.
Ground story. Same as Ground floor (above).
Ground substance (Anat.), the intercellular substance, or
matrix, of tissues.
Ground swell.
(a) (Bot.) The plant groundsel. [Obs.] --Holland.
(b) A broad, deep swell or undulation of the ocean,
caused by a long continued gale, and felt even at a
remote distance after the gale has ceased.
Ground table. (Arch.) See Earth table, under Earth.
Ground tackle (Naut.), the tackle necessary to secure a
vessel at anchor. --Totten.
Ground thrush (Zool.), one of numerous species of
bright-colored Oriental birds of the family Pittid[ae].
See Pitta.
Ground tier.
(a) The lowest tier of water casks in a vessel's hold.
--Totten.
(b) The lowest line of articles of any kind stowed in a
vessel's hold.
(c) The lowest range of boxes in a theater.
Ground timbers (Shipbuilding) the timbers which lie on the
keel and are bolted to the keelson; floor timbers.
--Knight.
Ground tit. (Zool.) See Ground wren (below).
Ground wheel, that wheel of a harvester, mowing machine,
etc., which, rolling on the ground, drives the mechanism.
Ground wren (Zool.), a small California bird ({Cham[ae]a
fasciata}) allied to the wrens and titmice. It inhabits
the arid plains. Called also ground tit, and wren tit.
To bite the ground, To break ground. See under Bite,
Break.
To come to the ground, To fall to the ground, to come to
nothing; to fail; to miscarry.
To gain ground.
(a) To advance; to proceed forward in conflict; as, an
army in battle gains ground.
(b) To obtain an advantage; to have some success; as, the
army gains ground on the enemy.
(c) To gain credit; to become more prosperous or
influential.
To get ground, or To gather ground, to gain ground. [R.]
"Evening mist . . . gathers ground fast." --Milton.
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There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground
of them, but by bidding higher. --South.
To give ground, to recede; to yield advantage.
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These nine . . . began to give me ground. --Shak.
To lose ground, to retire; to retreat; to withdraw from the
position taken; hence, to lose advantage; to lose credit
or reputation; to decline.
To stand one's ground, to stand firm; to resist attack or
encroachment. --Atterbury.
To take the ground to touch bottom or become stranded; --
said of a ship.
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Jangling
(gcide) | Jangle \Jan"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jangling.] [OE. janglen to quarrel, OF. jangler to rail,
quarrel; of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken,
to whimper, chide, brawl, quarrel.]
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1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
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2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
"Thou janglest as a jay." --Chaucer.
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3. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
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Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
--Shak.
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Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an
unmelodious manner. --Carlyle.
[1913 Webster]Jangling \Jan"gling\, a.
Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Jangling \Jan"gling\, n.
1. Idle babbling; vain disputation.
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From which some, having swerved, have turned aside
unto vain jangling. --1 Tim. i. 6.
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2. Wrangling; altercation. --Lamb.
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Mangling
(gcide) | Mangle \Man"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mangling.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS.
mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed;
perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]
1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a
ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in
cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to
mutilate.
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Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
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2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing;
as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
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To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.
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Spangling
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spangling.]
To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with
small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled
breastplate. --Donne.
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What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
(Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.
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Strangling
(gcide) | Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strangled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Strangling.] [OF. estrangler, F. ['e]trangler, L.
strangulare, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to E.
string, n. Cf. Strain, String.]
1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until
death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to
death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a
rope.
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Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to
strangle herself. --Ayliffe.
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2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
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Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak.
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3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
"Strangle such thoughts." --Shak.
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Tangling
(gcide) | Tangle \Tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tangling.] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to
twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or
interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to
unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
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2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in
lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." --Milton.
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When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways. --Crashaw.
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Tanglingly
(gcide) | Tanglingly \Tan"gling*ly\, adv.
In a tangling manner.
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Wrangling
(gcide) | Wrangle \Wran"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wrangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Wrangling.] [OE. wranglen to wrestle. See Wrong,
Wring.]
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1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. [Obs.]
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2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to
brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings."
--Macaulay.
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For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. --Shak.
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He did not know what it was to wrangle on
indifferent points. --Addison.
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angling
(wn) | angling
n 1: fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) |
dangling
(wn) | dangling
n 1: the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so
it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the
hanging of the portrait" [syn: suspension, dangling,
hanging] |
dangling modifier
(wn) | dangling modifier
n 1: a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word
because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young'
in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' [syn:
dangling modifier, misplaced modifier] |
dangling participle
(wn) | dangling participle
n 1: a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence)
apparently modifying a word other than the word intended:
e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the
country the Rockies came into view' |
gangling
(wn) | gangling
adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling
teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into
a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly,
lanky, rangy]
2: tall and thin [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky] |
jangling
(wn) | jangling
adj 1: like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic
objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"
[syn: jangling, jangly] |
strangling
(wn) | strangling
n 1: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the
windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the
accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation,
throttling] |
untangling
(wn) | untangling
n 1: the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
[syn: unsnarling, untangling, disentanglement,
extrication] |
wangling
(wn) | wangling
n 1: an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or
trickery [syn: wangle, wangling] |
wrangling
(wn) | wrangling
n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling] |
dangling pointer
(foldoc) | dangling pointer
A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere.
In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't
actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens
because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or
disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed
and reused.
Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning;
for example, a local phone number for a person who has since
moved is a dangling pointer.
This dictionary contains many dangling pointers -
cross-references to non-existent entries, as explained in {the
Help page (help.html)}.
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dangling pointer
(jargon) | dangling pointer
n.
[common] A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some
other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid).
Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has
moved or disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its techspeak
meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved
to the other coast is a dangling pointer.
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