Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for smoothing fabrics or household articles of linen or cotton, as sheets, table-cloths, napkins, and towels.
- To cut and slash or tear at random; wound jaggedly or by numerous cuts; hack; lacerate; disfigure by cutting, hacking, tearing, or crushing: applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh.
- Figuratively, to destroy the symmetry or completeness of; mutilate; mar through ignorance, bungling, or malice.
- Synonyms Maim, etc. See
mutilate . - To smooth with a mangle; calender.
- noun See
plate-straightening rolls .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
- noun A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.
- noun (Mach.) a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged.
- noun a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the wheel.
- transitive verb To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
- transitive verb To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
change ,mutilate ordisfigure bycutting ,tearing ,rearranging etc. - verb transitive, archaic To
wring laundry . - verb transitive, computing To modify (an
identifier fromsource code ) so as to produce aunique identifier forinternal use by thecompiler , etc. - noun A hand-operated device with
rollers , for wringing laundry. - noun The mangle attached to
wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb injure badly by beating
- verb press with a mangle
- noun clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- verb destroy or injure severely
- verb alter so as to make unrecognizable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rhizopora mangle is the most frequently occurring mangrove species and is found closest to the coast at heights of up to 25 m.
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In the mangroves fringing the coastal lagoons Rhizophora mangle is characteristic.
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Slower presentations can be the ticket for catching early-season northerns that aren't in mangle mode.
25 Killer Spring Tips for Bass, Trout, Crappie, Walleys, and Pike
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Possibly all for the best, considering the first time I ever saw the word mangle in that context was in a Stephen King story about one that was possessed.
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MARTIN: About the fact that women who make mistakes like this or mangle a word or whatever, and you have people again, on the right like George Bush, on the left like Joe Biden, we use a word like light and we don't talk about men that way, we talk about women that way.
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MARTIN: About the fact that women who make mistakes like this or mangle a word or whatever, and you have people again, on the right like George Bush, on the left like Joe Biden, we use a word like light and we don't talk about men that way, we talk about women that way.
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Running the collars and cuffs through the mangle was also Joe's idea.
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MARTIN: About the fact that women who make mistakes like this or mangle a word or whatever, and you have people again, on the right like George Bush, on the left like Joe Biden, we use a word like light and we don't talk about men that way, we talk about women that way.
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MARTIN: About the fact that women who make mistakes like this or mangle a word or whatever, and you have people again, on the right like George Bush, on the left like Joe Biden, we use a word like light and we don't talk about men that way, we talk about women that way.
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MARTIN: About the fact that women who make mistakes like this or mangle a word or whatever, and you have people again, on the right like George Bush, on the left like Joe Biden, we use a word like light and we don't talk about men that way, we talk about women that way.
slumry commented on the word mangle
A machine for pressing clothes or linens.
July 18, 2007
yarb commented on the word mangle
Citation on strew.
July 1, 2009