What is the meaning of ANGLE. Phrases containing ANGLE
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a.
Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
v. i.
To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
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A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
a.
Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc.
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A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
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The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
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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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Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
n. pl.
An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
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Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
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One who angles.
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of Angle
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The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
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To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
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A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides.
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A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.
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A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.
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An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
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An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
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A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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