Angle

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: An=gle

CIDE DICTIONARY

Angle, n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.].

•  The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.  [1913 Webster]

  "Into the utmost angle of the world."  [1913 Webster]

  "To search the tenderest angles of the heart."  [1913 Webster]
•  The figure made by. two lines which meet.  [1913 Webster]
•  A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Though but an angle reached him of the stone."  [1913 Webster]
•  A name given to four of the twelve astrological “houses.”  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.  [1913 Webster]

  "Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there."  [1913 Webster]

  "A fisher next his trembling angle bears."  [1913 Webster]

Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90 -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90 -- Optic angle. See under Optic. -- Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. -- Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90 -- Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. -- Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a 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 center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.

Angle, v. i. 

•  To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.  [1913 Webster]
•  To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.  [1913 Webster]

  "The hearts of all that he did angle for."  [1913 Webster]

Angle, v. t. 

 To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.  Sir P. Sidney.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Angle, n. (usu. in pl.) a member of a tribe from Schleswig that settled in Eastern Britain in the 5th c.

Derivative

Anglian adj.

Etymology

L Anglus f. Gmc (OE Engle: cf. ENGLISH) f. Angul a district of Schleswig (now in N. Germany) (as ANGLE(2))

Angle, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the space between two meeting lines or surfaces. b the inclination of two lines or surfaces to each other.
2 a a corner. b a sharp projection.
3 a the direction from which a photograph etc. is taken. b the aspect from which a matter is considered.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. move or place obliquely.
2 tr. present (information) from a particular point of view (was angled in favour of the victim).

Idiom

angle brackets brackets in the form < > (see BRACKET n. 3). angle-iron a piece of iron or steel with an L-shaped cross-section, used to strengthen a framework. angle of repose the angle beyond which an inclined body will not support another on its surface by friction.

Angle, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 (often foll. by for) fish with hook and line.
2 (foll. by for) seek an objective by devious or calculated means (angled for a pay rise).
--n. archaic a fish-hook.

Etymology

OE angul

THESAURUS

Angle

Anschauung, L, action, aim, anagnorisis, angle for, angle of vision, angle off, apex, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, aspect, atmosphere, background, bait the hook, base, basis, be after, bear off, bend, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bob, bow, branch, brew, cabal, cant, catastrophe, characterization, chevron, clam, coign of vantage, coin, collude, color, complication, complot, concoct, configuration, connive, conspire, continuity, contrivance, contrive, cook up, corner, countermine, counterplot, crank, crook, crotchet, cusp, dap, deflect, deflection, denouement, design, detail, development, deviate, device, dib, dibble, direction, distance, divagate, diverge, dogleg, drive, edge, effect, eidolon, elbow, ell, engineer, episode, eye, fable, facet, falling action, fashion, feature, figure, finagle, finesse, fish, fish for, flection, flexure, fly-fish, footing, fork, form, frame, frame of reference, frame up, framework, furcate, furcation, gerrymander, gestalt, gig, gimmick, go fishing, grig, ground, guddle, guise, hand, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hook, hunt for, image, imago, impression, incident, inflection, intersection, intrigue, item, jack, jacklight, jig, jockey, knee, lay a plot, light, likeness, line, lineaments, local color, look, look for, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, manner, mental outlook, mood, motif, movement, mythos, net, nook, oblique, oblique angle, operate, outlook, particular, peripeteia, perspective, phase, phasis, place, plan, play games, plot, point, point of view, position, post, projection, pull strings, quoin, recognition, reference, reference system, regard, respect, rig, right angle, rising action, salient angle, scheme, seat, secondary plot, seek, seeming, seine, semblance, shape, sheer, shrimp, side, sight, simulacrum, situation, skew, slant, slue, spin, stand, standing, standpoint, station, status, still-fish, story, structure, style, subject, subplot, sway, swerve, switch, system, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, torch, total effect, trawl, troll, try for, turn, turning, twist, universe, vantage, vantage point, veer, venue, vertex, view, viewpoint, wangle, whale, wise, zag, zig, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

Angle

Angularity

N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.

Appearance

N appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps.

Experiment

VB experiment, essay, try, try out, assay, make an experiment, make a trial of, give a trial to, put on trial, subject to trial, experiment upon, rehearse, put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof, prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength, road-test, test drive, take for a spin, test fly, grope, feel one's way, grope for one's way, fumble, t=atonner, aller =a t=atons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler, send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon, see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows, consult the barometer, feel the pulse, fish for, bob for, cast for, beat about for, angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes, try one's fortune, explore.