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# entanglement

noun (entanglement, entanglements); verb entangle

«entanglement» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An entanglement is when things are twisted and caught together, like string, nets or wire. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «entanglement» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entanglement/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«entanglement» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/entanglement.html) on Mova free.