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Definitions: Mangle |
MangleNoun1. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers. Verb1. Press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets". 2. Injure badly by beating. 3. "The tourists murdered the French language". 4. Destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mangle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | Mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed. 2. To produce the mangled name corresponding to a C++ declaration. Source: Jargon File. |
Industry | A machine whose purpose is to express liquid from moving textiles by passage through a nip. The textile may be in rope form or in open width, and the mangle may consist of two or more rollers or bowls running in contact. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A machine for smoothing fabrics following washing. . . The machine comes in various makes, but the principle consists of rollers and a vat or kier to hold the solution. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: MangleSynonyms: cut up (v), disfigure (v), maul (v), murder (v), mutilate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Smoothness | Verb: smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate; (oil). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mangle |
| English words defined with "mangle": Bemangle ♦ Mangle rack, Mangle wheel, Mangling ♦ Rhizophora mangle ♦ Scamble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mangle": BLEACH-RANGE OPERATOR ♦ cloth opener, hand ♦ ELECTRIFIER OPERATOR ♦ hummer operator ♦ mangle doffer, mangle gear, mangle operator, garments, mangle tender, cloth, MANGLE-PRESS CATCHER ♦ PASTER, HAND OR MACHINE ♦ SCUTCHER TENDER, stomp on. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mangle": Bemangle ♦ Mangonel. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mangle" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (lack), Spanish (mangrove). |
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Screenplays | I will mangle your mind. (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes) | |
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 | Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus conquerors swords often cut up governments by the roots, and mangle societies to pieces, separating the subdued or scattered multitude from the protection of, and dependence on, that society which ought to have preserved them from violence. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| "Mangle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.51% of the time. "Mangle" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.51% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mangle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mangle | Last name | 300 | 28,677 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "mangle": mangle gear ♦ Mangle rack ♦ Mangle wheel ♦ R Mangle ♦ Rhizophora mangle. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "mangle": mingle-mangle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mangle | 51 |
iron mangle | 9 |
mangle rhizophora | 9 |
ironer mangle | 4 |
alby mangle | 4 |
jeffer mangle | 4 |
mangle wheels | 3 |
ironrite mangle | 3 |
mangle wringers | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mangle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | makinë shtrydhëse (squeezer), shtrydhëse (reamer), sakatoj (beat up, cripple, lame, maim, maul, mutilate), interpretoj keq, dërrmoj (contuse, crush, drub, grind, hammer, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with), copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fissure, fragment, joint, maul, rend, rip up, sever, sunder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), مجففة (dehydrated, drier), تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), جفف (dehydrate, desiccate, drain off, dry, exsiccate, mummify, parch, sear, season, spin), شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mutilate, mutilation, resect, resection, stump, take off, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смазвам от бой (trounce), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, maim, mutilate, nip), обезобразявам (deface, defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, uglify), прекарвам пране през преса, изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mutilate, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轧布机, '裂 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mandlovat, mandl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mangrove (mangrove), mangle, vridemaskine (wringer), strygerulle (wringer), kompressionsmoiré-kalander med stofvalse (moire calender by compression by a fabric roller), glattemaskine (moire calender by compression by a fabric roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mangrove (mangrove), mangel (absence, absentness, wringer), wringer (wringer), afpersinrichting. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاره کردن (Cut, Lacerate, Rend, Rip, Shred, Tear), له کردن (Maul, Pummel, Quash, Rase, Scotch, Squash, Squeeze, Squelch), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mankeli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | estropier (maim), essoreuse rouleaux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mangel (absence, bad work, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, need, needs, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want, wringer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μάγγανο (calender, horse-capstan, horse-gin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכו ת '"וץ, מ'"צ", למחוץ (bruise, crumple, crush, maul, overwhelm, smite, squash, wound), לפצוע (bruise, hurt, injure, maul, scotch, slash, wound), ל"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, pervert, spoil, vitiate), לטרוף (devour, prey, prey upon, tear to pieces), לרטש (crush, shred, tear to pieces), לרסק (crush, mash, smash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mángorló (beetling engine, roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mangano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 叩き切る (to chop down, to hack down, to mangle), 切り刻む (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たたききる (to chop down, to hack down, to mangle), きりきざむ (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meeleyder, meelaghey (appease, appeasement, moisten, moistening, palliate, palliative, soften), lhuddyral (bedraggle, mangling, maul, mauling), lhuddyraghey (bedraggle, mangling, maul), lhianneyder, lhiannaghey (flake, flatten, laminate, lamination, mangling, press). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anglemay calandra (calender, rammer, roller, rolling machine). (various references) mutila (cripple, emasculate, maim, mutilate), mãngãlui, mãngãlãu, sfârteca (carve out), schilodi (cripple, disable, lame, maim, maul, mutilate), denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, distort, falsify, give false colour to, misrepresent, palter with, pervert, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest), deforma (contort, deface, deform, disfigure, distort, mutilate, twist), ciopârţi (dismember, hack, hackle, slash), calandru (calender), cãlca (break, calender, foot, go, hot-press, infringe, iron, press, smooth, step, tread, trespass, violate). (various references) рубить (chisel, chop, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mince), кромсать (shred), каток (icerink, ice-rink, rink, skating rink, skating-rink, slide), каландр (calender). (various references) spòlt, riopail, reub (abuse, rend), leadair (abuse, rend), casgair (massacre, slay). (various references) valjati rublje, sprava za rolanje rublja. (various references) mutilar (cripple, deface, disable, emasculate, garble, maim, mutilate), mangle (mangrove, moire calender by compression by a fabric roller), pasar por el exprimidor, exprimidor (squeezer, wringer), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, soil, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), escurridora de rodillos (wringer). (various references) mangel (calender, wringer), mangla (calender). (various references) mengeneden geçirmek, silindirden geçirmek (calender), sıkma silindiri, ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), çamaşır mengenesi. (various references) typanзan, taяganзak (rink, slippery). (various references) рубель (rouble, ruble), рубати (chaff, chop, cut down, fell, hack, hackle, hew), качати, віджимний валок. (various references) llurgunio (mutilate), llarpio (maul, rend, tear), dragio (drag, tear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carnificem, carnifico, discerpens, discerperetur, lacerabis, lacerabunt, lacerabuntur, lacerandum, lacerans, lacerantes, lacerare, lacerata, laceratum, laceratus, laceraverunt, laceret, lacero, laniastis, Rhizophora spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mangle": mangled, mangler, manglers, mangles. (additional references) | |
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"Mangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amngle, Hangle, kang-lu, Maglaj, magle, Maglen, mag-lev, Magnie, Makgill, Manali, mancle, mandle, mangel, Manglai, mangler, manglew, Manglou, Mangly, Mangole, Mangue, Manjil, mankle, Manole, Manoli, manule, maugle, Mbangula, Meigle, miggle, Minale, mogle, mongel, mongle, Monglet, mugle, Mungala, mungle, Namgyel, Nangle, Ngangala. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mangle" (pronounced ma"nggul) |
| 5 | -a" ng g u l | angle, bangle, dangle, disentangle, entangle, jangle, Spangle, strangle, tangle, untangle, wangle, wrangle. |
| 4 | -ng g u l | antifungal, commingle, Dingle, fungal, Ingle, intermingle, jingle, jungle, Mangel, mingle, mongol, rectangle, shingle, single, swingle, tingle, triangle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, bagel, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, conjugal, eagle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, jiggle, juggle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, milligal, mogul, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, regal, smuggle, snuggle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, struggle, toggle, wiggle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: legman, mangel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: angel, angle, gleam, glean, leman, mange. | |
-2 letters: alme, amen, egal, elan, gaen, gale, game, gane, glen, lame, lane, lang, lean, mage, male, mane, meal, mean, name, nema. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, ane, elm, eng, gae, gal, gam, gan, gel, gem, gen, lag, lam, lea, leg, mae, mag, man, meg, mel, men, nae, nag, nam. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, al, am, an, el, em, en, la, ma, me, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-m-n" | |
+1 letter: flagmen, gamelan, geminal, gleeman, mangels, mangled, mangler, mangles, melange. | |
+2 letters: amylogen, emailing, empaling, fugleman, gamelans, germinal, glassmen, gleaming, gunmetal, liegeman, ligament, magdalen, maligned, maligner, malinger, manglers, mangonel, medaling, melanges, metaling, tegminal. | |
+3 letters: alignment, amylogens, angleworm, becalming, bigeminal, clergyman, embalming, emblazing, embrangle, emplacing, emplaning, emulating, enameling, enflaming, exampling, flambeing, gallamine, geminally, gentleman, germanely, glutamine, greenmail, gunmetals, lamenting, ligaments, magdalene, magdalens, malaguena, maligners, malingers, mangonels, marveling, meaningly, medalling, meningeal, metalling, remailing, segmental, signalmen, tegmental, trameling. | |
+4 letters: alightment, alignments, alimenting, angleworms, assembling, avgolemono, blancmange, camerlengo, carmagnole, clambering, declaiming, emalangeni, embattling, embrangled, embrangles, empaneling, enamelling, evangelism, exclaiming, flamingoes, fragmental, gallamines, germinally, glutamines, greenmails, imaginable, impaneling, impearling, impleading, impugnable, judgmental, lemongrass, lovemaking, magdalenes, malaguenas, malignance, malingered, malingerer, manageable, manageably, managerial, marcelling, martingale, marvelling, meaningful, megafaunal, melanizing, menacingly, metalising, metalizing, mineralogy, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, multirange, nematology, plasmagene, reclaiming, regimental, resampling, rosemaling, signalment, tanglement, tramelling, trammeling, trigeminal. | |
+5 letters: alchemizing, alightments, amblygonite, avgolemonos, beclamoring, beglamoring, blancmanges, blaspheming, camerlengos, carmagnoles, clergywoman, congealment, demandingly, egomaniacal, eliminating, emblazoning, embracingly, embrangling, empanelling, enigmatical, enlargement, evangelisms, gentlemanly, gentlewoman, glucosamine, glutaminase, greenmailed, greenmailer, impanelling, impregnable, impregnably, legerdemain, ligamentous, lovemakings, maddeningly, maledicting, malignances, malignities, malingerers, malingering, maltreating, marbleising, marbleizing, marginalize, martingales, meaningless, megalomania, megalomanic, meliorating, metallizing, methylating, mineralogic, misaltering, mislabeling, mislearning, mispleading, misrelating, multiagency, pelargonium, plasmagenes, plasminogen, platemaking, prolegomena, realignment, regimentals, regionalism, rosemalings, screamingly, segmentally, signalments, stalemating, steelmaking, tanglements, trammelling, trigeminals, umbrellaing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 67 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -. --. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n g l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0067 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476780737871 |
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