ANGLE
\ˈaŋɡə͡l], \ˈaŋɡəl], \ˈa_ŋ_ɡ_əl]\
Definitions of ANGLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a biased way of looking at or presenting something
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a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
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the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
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fish with a hook
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present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
By Princeton University
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a biased way of looking at or presenting something
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a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
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the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
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fish with a hook
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
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The figure made by. two lines which meet.
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The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
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To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
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To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
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A name given to four of the twelve astrological houses.
By Oddity Software
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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
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The figure made by. two lines which meet.
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The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
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To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
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To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
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A name given to four of the twelve astrological houses.
By Noah Webster.
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The figure formed by two lines or surfaces meeting; space between two lines which meet; a corner.
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To fish with a hook and line; to scheme; to use a bait.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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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.
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A hook or bend: a fishing-rod with line and hook.
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To fish with an angle.
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To entice: to try to gain by some artifice.
By Daniel Lyons
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A corner; point where two lines meet; inclination of two lines that meet.
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A rod and hook.
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To fish with a hook.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fish with rod, hook, and line; with for.
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Angler.
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The figure, concept, or relation of two straight lines emanating from one point; a corner; point; inclination. See illus.
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A fish-hook; fishing-tackle; a fishing with hook and line.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The degree of divergence of two straight lines or two planes which meet each other or would meet if sufficiently projected.
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A corner, a point at which two or more edges or sides of an object or the walls or boundaries of a cavity or opening meet; an abrupt bend.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] The point where two lines meet or intersect ; a corner the difference of direction of two lines in the same plane that meet, or that would meet, if sufficiently extended ; or the difference of direction of two planes intersecting, or tending to intersect each other; —fishing tackle ; a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Angle of incidence, the angle which a ray of light makes with a line drawn perpendicular to the point on which it falls. — Angle of refraction, the angle which a ray of light makes with a line drawn perpendicular to the refracting medium on which it falls. A right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90°, making the quarter of a circle.—An obtuse angle, one more than 90°.—An acute angle, one less than 90°.—A rectilineal angle, one formed by two right lines.—A curvilinear angle, one formed by two curved lines.—A mixed angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line.— Adjacent angles, such as have one leg common to both angles.—External angles, angles of any right-lined figure without it, when the sides are produced.—Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure.—-Oblique angles, angles that are either acute or obtuse.—A solid angle, the angle produced by the meeting of three or more plans angles at one point.—A spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually out one another on the surface of the globe or sphere. — visual angle the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an. object to the centre of the eye.
