Corner
['kɔːnə] or ['kɔrnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the intersection of two streets; 'standing on the corner watching all the girls go by'.
(noun.) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.
(noun.) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; 'a piano was in one corner of the room'.
(noun.) the point where two lines meet or intersect; 'the corners of a rectangle'.
(noun.) a place off to the side of an area; 'he tripled to the rightfield corner'; 'the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean'.
(noun.) a remote area; 'in many corners of the world they still practice slavery'.
(noun.) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; 'the corners of a cube'.
(noun.) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet; 'he knocked off the corners'.
(noun.) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; 'his lying got him into a tight corner'.
(noun.) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; 'a corner on the silver market'.
(verb.) turn a corner; 'the car corners'.
(verb.) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape.
(verb.) gain control over; 'corner the gold market'.
Typed by Ann--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
(n.) Direction; quarter.
(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.
(v. t.) To drive into a corner.
(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
(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.
Typed by Leona
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Angle, bend, elbow, crotch, knee, cusp.[2]. Nook, recess, niche, retired place, secret place.[3]. Part, quarter.
v. a. [Colloquial U. S.] [1]. Drive into a corner.[2]. Nonplus, pose, confound, confuse, puzzle, perplex, put to a stand.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cavity, hole, nook, recess, retreat
ANT:Coin, abutment, prominence, salience, angle, protrusion, elbow, protection,convexity
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Definition
n. the point where two lines meet: a secret or confined place: an embarrassing position difficulty: (obs.) a point in a rubber at whist: a free kick given to the opposite side when a player in football kicks the ball over his own goal-line: an operation by which the whole of a stock or commodity is bought up so that speculative sellers are compelled to buy to meet their engagements at the corner-men's own price.—v.t. to supply with corners: to put in a corner: to put in a fix or difficulty.—adj. Cor′nered having corners: put in a difficult position.—n. Cor′ner-stone the stone which unites the two walls of a building at a corner: the principal stone esp. the corner of the foundation of a building—hence (fig.) something of very great importance.—n.pl. Cor′ner-teeth the lateral incisors of a horse above and below.—adv. Cor′ner-wise with the corner in front: diagonally.—Cut off a corner to take a short cut; Done in a corner done secretly: Drive into a corner to put in a fix: to bring to bay; Keep a corner to reserve a place; The Corner (slang) Tattersall's betting-rooms in London till 1867 at Hyde Park Corner; Turn the corner to go round the corner: to get past a difficulty; Within the four corners of contained in (of a document &c.).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
This is an unfavorable dream if the dreamer is frightened and secretes himself in a corner for safety. To see persons talking in a corner, enemies are seeking to destroy you. The chances are that some one whom you consider a friend will prove a traitor to your interest.
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Examples
- Don't be afraid of me: you needn't squeeze yourself back into your corner like that. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He turned a corner suddenly, and Blucher went over his head. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Because I saw it only looking out from under the blinds of a window in the house which stood on the corner where the arc light was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This morning, ma'am, I found him at the corner of the town. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lydgate did not speak, but tossed his head on one side, and twitched the corners of his mouth in despair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The person of the house gave a weird little laugh here, and gave them another look out of the corners of her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So saying, he pointed successively to two corners of the hut. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Weller paused when he arrived at this point, and cast a comical look at his master out of the corners of his eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That dear, little, gentleman-like bow, on the little, _vielle cour_, three-cornered hat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Gould and Fisk crowd had cornered gold, and had run the quotations up faster than the indicator could follow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pray William, said his mother, why do you come to the Hoppera in that hodious round 'at, after giving such a price for a three-cornered one? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So soon as it was released from control, it ran naturally into speculation, cornering, and luxury production. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Erna