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Angle

noun

The space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians.

A biased way of looking at or presenting something. Synonym: slant.

A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons.

verb

(past & past part. angled; pres. part. angling)

Move or proceed at an angle.

To incline or bend from a vertical position. Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip.

Seek indirectly. Synonym: fish.

Fish with a hook.

Present with a bias. Synonyms: slant, weight.

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"Angle" Quotes from Famous Books

... the cupboard, and the body of the man would be discovered if it were there. But it is not. The putting the key in the lock of the back door was a signal on hearing which the person concealed brought his body forward to an angle as acute as possible—throwing it altogether, or nearly so, into the main compartment. This, however, is a painful position, and cannot be long maintained. Accordingly we find that Maelzel closes the back door. This being done, there ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... less degree of variety was permissible in her chin. It had to be at an angle suggestive of piquancy, and it had to contain at least the suspicion of ...

— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome

... angle of the chateau was a small plot of turf called at Beaurepaire the Pleasance, a name that had descended along with other traditions; and in the centre of this Pleasance, or Pleasaunce, stood a wonderful oak-tree. Its circumference was thirty-four feet. The baroness came ...

— White Lies • Charles Reade

... information. Having thus helped him to the solution of his first problem, with the view of illustrating the nature of geometrical methods, he is in future to be left to solve the questions put to him as best he can. To bisect a line, to erect a perpendicular, to describe a square, to bisect an angle, to draw a line parallel to a given line, to describe a hexagon, are problems which a little patience will enable him to find out. And from these he may be led on step by step to more complex questions: all of which, under judicious management, he will puzzle through unhelped. ...

— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... whose name is connected with more successful buildings at Amboise and Blois. The plan is that of the true French chateau; in the center is the habitation of the seigneur and his family, flanked by four angle towers; on three sides is a court closed by buildings, also with towers at each angle, and like most feudal dwellings the central donjon has one of its sides on the ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

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