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intricate (mass) | intricate
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intricate (encz) | intricate,složitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
intricate (encz) | intricate,spletitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Intricate (gcide) | Intricate \In"tri*cate\, a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare
to entangle, perplex. Cf. Intrigue, Extricate.]
Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to
understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate
machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
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His style was fit to convey the most intricate business
to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
--Addison.
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The nature of man is intricate. --Burke.
Syn: Intricate, Complex, Complicated.
Usage: A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is
complicated when those parts are so many, or so
arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is
intricate when it has numerous windings and confused
involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is
complex must be resolved into its parts; what is
complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is
intricate must be unraveled.
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Intricate (gcide) | Intricate \In"tri*cate\, v. t.
To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.]
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It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise
discourses. --Jer. Taylor.
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intricate (wn) | intricate
adj 1: having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate;
"intricate lacework" |
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intricately (encz) | intricately,komplikovaně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Disintricate (gcide) | Disintricate \Dis*in"tri*cate\, v. t.
To disentangle. [R.] "To disintricate the question." --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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Intricate (gcide) | Intricate \In"tri*cate\, a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare
to entangle, perplex. Cf. Intrigue, Extricate.]
Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to
understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate
machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
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His style was fit to convey the most intricate business
to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
--Addison.
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The nature of man is intricate. --Burke.
Syn: Intricate, Complex, Complicated.
Usage: A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is
complicated when those parts are so many, or so
arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is
intricate when it has numerous windings and confused
involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is
complex must be resolved into its parts; what is
complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is
intricate must be unraveled.
[1913 Webster]Intricate \In"tri*cate\, v. t.
To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.]
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It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise
discourses. --Jer. Taylor.
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Intricately (gcide) | Intricately \In"tri*cate*ly\, adv.
In an intricate manner.
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Intricateness (gcide) | Intricateness \In"tri*cate*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
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Unintricated (gcide) | Unintricated \Unintricated\
See intricated. |
intricately (wn) | intricately
adv 1: with elaboration; "it was elaborately spelled out" [syn:
elaborately, intricately, in an elaborate way] |
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