Angular and Corner

angular

Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
- usage: "angular momentum"
Having angles or an angular shape.
- synonyms: angulate

(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
(a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

corner

A place off to the side of an area.
- usage: "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"
The point where two lines meet or intersect.
- usage: "the corners of a rectangle"
An interior angle formed by two meeting walls.
- usage: "a piano was in one corner of the room"
- synonyms: nook
The intersection of two streets.
- usage: "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"
- synonyms: street corner, turning point
The point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect.
- usage: "the corners of a cube"
A small concavity.
- synonyms: recess, recession, niche
A temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade.
- usage: "a corner on the silver market"
A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.
- usage: "his lying got him into a tight corner"
- synonyms: box
A projecting part where two sides or edges meet.
- usage: "he knocked off the corners"
A remote area.
- usage: "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"
Architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.
- synonyms: quoin

Gain control over.
- usage: "corner the gold market"
Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape.
- synonyms: tree
Turn a corner.
- usage: "the car corners"

(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
(v.t.) To drive into a corner.
(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
(n.) Direction; quarter.
(v.t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
(v.t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
(n.) A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Corner refers to a market condition whereby an individual or group of individuals have gained control of a commodity or market.