Dictionary entry
Untangle
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
မငြိမတွယ် ဖြစ်စေသည်။
Definition
untangle /ʌn'tæŋgl / v ၁။ (အ႐ႈပ္၊ အေထြး၊ အထံုး၊ အလိမ္ကို) ရွင္းသည္။ untangle knitting wool ❍ She untangled her skirt from the barbed wire. ၂။ (ျပႆနာ၊ ပေဟဠိ) ရွင္းသည္၊ ေျဖသည္။ untangle a mystery/ sb's financial affairs.
Examples
- ‘At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head
- untangling the fishing line
- scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface.’
- ‘While progress is good
- and the scarf will be completed
- I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting.’
- ‘The bones were sort of tangled
- so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers.’
- ‘It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim.’
- ‘Instead
- engineers developed ‘splicing
- ’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time.’
- ‘Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber
- as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.’
- ‘He twisted his hands to untangle them
- then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass.’
- ‘Initially
- the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her.’
- ‘Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering
- so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it
- removing
- where possible
- just the oldest wood.’
- ‘Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes.’
- ‘The place was deserted
- save for myriad squirrels
- but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings
- so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.’
- ‘I would watch the dark
- tanned bodies of fishermen
- untangling their seine
- getting ready for the toils of the day.’
- ‘Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat
- cope with water shortages
- regularly untangle his propeller
- avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.’
- ‘A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood.’
- ‘This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.’
- ‘This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river.’
- ‘A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam.’
- ‘She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse
- the bushes scratching at her arms
- snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.’
- ‘For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system
- it's pretty much indispensable.’
- ‘If Alam's job as hard-nosed
- aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction
- Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.’