Angularness and Angle
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians.
- A biased way of looking at or presenting something.
- synonyms: slant
- A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons.
verb
- Move or proceed at an angle.
- usage: "he angled his way into the room"
- To incline or bend from a vertical position.
- usage: "She leaned over the banister"
- Seek indirectly.
- usage: "fish for compliments"
- synonyms: fish
- Fish with a hook.
- Present with a bias.
- usage: "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
- (v.t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
- (v.i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook) or with hook and line.
- (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
- (v.i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
- (n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
- (n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses.".
- (n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
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