0 to remove the knots from an untidy mass of string, wire, etc. and separate the different threads
1 to make a complicated subject or problem, or its different parts, clear and able to be understood:
2 to remove the knots from a mass of string, wire, hair, etc. and separate the different threads:
While these approaches are only sometimes connectionist models, they establish that the statistics of language can be valuable in untangling the meaning of language.
The difficulty lies in untangling the workings of the motivational factors from the experimental ones, when it comes to understanding observed or reported effects.
There are, however, tensions associated with these meanings and constructions of meanings, and where they emerge, they will be explored and untangled.
Intergenerational solidarity in families: untangling the ties that bind.
The success or failure of the various attempts can therefore be untangled from the legislative aims.
Such research not only is necessary for untangling causal mechanisms and processes, it is the key to resolving the classification problems discussed above.
One can start to sort out this mess by untangling some of the different criteria used to define capitals in both past and present.
Do they have anything meaty or even interesting to offer to the intellectual historian who delights in charting rich mental worlds and untangling gnarled intellectual genealogies?