Usually means: Knots or twists in fibers.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangles: Merriam-Webster
  2. tangles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tangles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tangles, tangles: Wordnik
  5. tangles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tangles: Wiktionary
  7. tangles: Dictionary.com
  8. tangles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tangles (SJ Tucker album), Tangles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tangles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangles: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tangles: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangles: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangles: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tangle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tangle)

verb:  (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
verb:  (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
verb:  (transitive) To catch and hold.
noun:  A tangled twisted mass.
noun:  A complicated or confused state or condition.
noun:  An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
noun:  (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
noun:  (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
noun:  A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
noun:  Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
noun:  (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
noun:  (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
noun:  A barangay of Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.
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