Angle
['æŋg(ə)l] or ['æŋɡl]
Definition
(noun.) a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons.
(noun.) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians.
(verb.) fish with a hook.
(verb.) move or proceed at an angle; 'he angled his way into the room'.
Typed by Brooke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
(n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
(n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
(n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
(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.
(v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
(v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
(v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
Typed by Allan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Geom.) Difference of direction (of two lines).[2]. Corner, bend, elbow, knee, crotch, cusp, point (where two lines meet).
v. n. Fish (with a rod), BOB.
Checked by Leda
Definition
n. a corner: the point where two lines meet: (geom.) the inclination of two straight lines which meet but are not in the same straight line: any outlying corner or nook.—adj. Ang′ular having an angle or corner: (fig.) stiff in manner: the opposite of easy or graceful: bony and lean in figure.—n. Angular′ity.—adj. Ang′ulated formed with angles.
n. a hook or bend: a fishing-rod with line and hook.—v.i. to fish with an angle.—v.t. to entice: to try to gain by some artifice.—ns. Ang′ler one who fishes with an angle: a voracious fish about three feet long not uncommon on British shores and called also the Fishing-frog the Sea-devil and by the Scotch Wide-gab; Ang′ling the art or practice of fishing with a rod and line.
Editor: Olaf
Examples
- The ray of light from A at the bottom of the object passes through the lens at an angle, and continues in a straight line until interrupted by the film or plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When a ray of light passes from water or glass into air, the refracted ray is bent away from the perpendicular so that the angle of refraction is greater than the angle of incidence. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The semaphore consisted of an upright post, having arms on each side, that could be readily extended, at any given angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The law of reflection always holds, however, no matter what the reflecting surface is,--the angle of reflection always equals the angle of incidence. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The angle _POS_ is called the angle of refraction. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They had worked with their gliders several years, and had made new calculations of the changing angles and currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were fortifications at intervals along the line and at the angles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We may approach it, so to speak, from any one of the angles provided by its connections. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- On a permanently constructed pocket table, right-angled plugs of the rubber cushion are screwed to the corner pocket irons and straight sections are screwed to the side pocket irons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On its top is an object glass which takes in all objects within its range and transmits an image of them through a right-angled prism and down the tube. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Editor: Sweeney