angle
English
Pronunciation
- (without æ-raising) IPA(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/, [ˈæŋ.ɡəl] ~ [ˈæŋ.ɡl̩]Category:English 2-syllable words#ANGLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANGLE
- (æ-raising)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/, [ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl] ~ [ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡl̩]; /ˈɛ̃ŋ.ɡəl/, [ˈɛ̃ŋ.ɡəl] ~ [ˈɛ̃ŋ.ɡl̩]Category:English 2-syllable words#ANGLECategory:English 2-syllable words#ANGLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANGLE
- Rhymes: -æŋɡəlCategory:Rhymes:English/æŋɡəl#ANGLECategory:Rhymes:English/æŋɡəl/2 syllables#ANGLE
- Hyphenation: an‧gle
- Homophone: AngleCategory:English terms with homophones#ANGLE
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ANGLE angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#ANGLE angle, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANGLE angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus and ankleCategory:English doublets#ANGLE.
Noun
angle (plural angles)Category:English lemmas#ANGLECategory:English nouns#ANGLECategory:English countable nouns#ANGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- (geometryCategory:en:Geometry#ANGLE) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- the angle between lines A and BCategory:English terms with collocations#ANGLE
- (geometryCategory:en:Geometry#ANGLE) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.Category:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- an angle of a buildingCategory:English terms with collocations#ANGLE
- A change in direction.
- The horse took off at an angle.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”Category:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
- 2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac, page 299:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle. Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."Category:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
- (mediaCategory:en:Media#ANGLE) The focus of a news story.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (slangCategory:English slang#ANGLE, professional wrestlingCategory:en:Professional wrestling#ANGLE) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (slangCategory:English slang#ANGLE) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- though but an angle reached him of the stoneCategory:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
- (astrologyCategory:en:Astrology#ANGLE) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- acute-angled
- adjacent angle
- advance angle
- angle bar
- angle bead
- angle bisector
- angle brace
- angle bracket
- angledozer
- angle for
- angle for farthings
- anglegram
- angle grinder
- angle harp
- angle iron
- angle leaf
- angleless
- angle level
- anglemeter
- angle of attack
- angle of depression
- angle of elevation
- angle of His
- angle of incidence
- angle of Louis
- angle of reflection
- angle of refraction
- angle of repose
- angle of torsion
- angle of vanishing stability
- angle of view
- angle parking
- anglepoise
- angle quote
- angles and dangles
- angle shaft
- angle shoot
- angle-shoot
- angle shooter
- angle shooting
- angle shot
- angle stealer, angle stealing
- angle tie
- anglewing
- anglewise
- base angle
- biangle
- bond angle
- Bragg angle
- Brewster's angle
- camber angle
- camera angle
- canted angle
- carpal angle
- cerebellopontine angle syndrome
- circular angle
- complete angle
- conjugate angle
- corresponding angle
- crab angle
- crank angle, crank angle degree
- critical angle
- dead angle
- decangle
- deck angle
- diangle
- dihedral angle
- double angle quotation mark
- double angle quote
- downflooding angle
- Dutch angle
- eigenangle
- equiangle
- Euler angle
- facial angle
- first angle projection
- first-angle projection
- full angle
- gastric angle
- gyroangle
- heptangle
- horn angle
- hyperbolic angle
- internal angle
- launch angle
- Mach angle
- minute of angle
- multiangle
- Myspace angle
- MySpace angle
- narrow-angle, narrow-angle lens
- Northwest Angle
- obtuse-angled
- octangle
- off-angle
- phase angle
- play the angles
- polyangle
- pseudoangle
- Q angle
- quinquangle
- reangle
- reference angle
- reflex angle
- renal angle
- semiangle
- septangle
- sexangle
- single angle quote
- spherical angle
- staff angle
- stall angle
- sternal angle
- The Angle
- third-angle projection
- third angle projection
- torsion angle
- vertex angle
- Virchow's angle
- visual angle
- what's one's angle
- wide-angle
Related terms
Translations
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See also
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ANGLE anglen (“to meet at an angle, converge”), from the noun (see above).
Verb
angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)Category:English lemmas#ANGLECategory:English verbs#ANGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ANGLE, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- The roof is angled at 15 degrees.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ANGLE, informalCategory:English informal terms#ANGLE) To change direction rapidly.
- The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ANGLE, informalCategory:English informal terms#ANGLE) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ANGLE, billiardsCategory:en:Billiards#ANGLE) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ANGLE angel (“fishhook”), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#ANGLE angel (“hook, fishhook”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ANGLE *angul, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ANGLE *angulaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANGLE *h₂enk- (“to make crooked, bend”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Ongle (“fishhook; fishing pole”), West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), Luxembourgish Aangel (“fishing rod”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”), Norwegian Nynorsk angel, ongel, ongul (“fishhook”), Swedish angel (“pike hook”), Prasuni uku (“shoulder”)Category:Prasuni terms in nonstandard scripts#ANGLE.
Noun
angle (plural angles)Category:English lemmas#ANGLECategory:English nouns#ANGLECategory:English countable nouns#ANGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- Give me mine angle: we'll to the river there.Category:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Vertuminus and Pomona:
- A fisher next his trembling angle bears.Category:English terms with quotations#ANGLE
Etymology 4
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ANGLE anglen (“to fish, fish with a hook”, literally “to fish-hook”), perhaps from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#ANGLE *anglian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ANGLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ANGLE *anglōn (“to hook”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ongelje (“to fish, angle”), Dutch hengelen (“to fish, angle”), German Low German angeln (“to fish, angle”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”).
Verb
angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)Category:English lemmas#ANGLECategory:English verbs#ANGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ANGLE) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (figurative, informalCategory:English informal terms#ANGLE, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- He must be angling for a pay rise.Category:English terms with usage examples#ANGLE
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
Category:en:Angle#ANGLECategory:en:Circle#ANGLECategory:en:Physical quantities#ANGLECategory:en:Skippers#ANGLECatalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Category:Catalan terms derived from Proto-Italic#ANGLECategory:Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Italic#ANGLECategory:Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANGLECategory:Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ANGLEInherited from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#ANGLECategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#ANGLE angulus
Noun
angle m (plural angles)Category:Catalan lemmas#ANGLECategory:Catalan nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan countable nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Catalan masculine nouns#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- (geometryCategory:ca:Geometry#ANGLE) angle (figure formed by two rays which start from a common point)
- angle (a corner where two walls intersect)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
angle m or f (masculine and feminine plural angles)Category:Catalan lemmas#ANGLECategory:Catalan adjectives#ANGLECategory:Catalan epicene adjectives#ANGLECategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- Anglian (of or pertaining to the Angles)
Noun
angle m or f by sense (plural angles)Category:Catalan lemmas#ANGLECategory:Catalan nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan countable nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan feminine nouns with no feminine ending#ANGLECategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Catalan masculine and feminine nouns by sense#ANGLECategory:Catalan masculine nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan feminine nouns#ANGLECategory:Catalan nouns with multiple genders#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- Angle (member of a Germanic tribe)
Related terms
Further reading
- “angle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “angle”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈanɡle/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#ANGLECategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#ANGLE
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Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#ANGLEAudio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -anɡleCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/anɡle#ANGLECategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/anɡle/2 syllables#ANGLE
- Syllabification: an‧gle
Adverb
angleCategory:Esperanto lemmas#ANGLECategory:Esperanto adverbs#ANGLECategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
Related terms
Category:eo:England#ANGLECategory:eo:Languages#ANGLEFrench
Etymology
Category:French terms derived from Proto-Italic#ANGLECategory:French terms inherited from Proto-Italic#ANGLECategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANGLECategory:French terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ANGLEInherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#ANGLECategory:French terms derived from Middle French#ANGLE angle, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#ANGLECategory:French terms derived from Old French#ANGLE angle, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#ANGLECategory:French terms derived from Latin#ANGLE angulus, anglus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃ɡl/Category:French 1-syllable words#ANGLECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ANGLE
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Noun
angle m (plural angles)Category:French lemmas#ANGLECategory:French nouns#ANGLECategory:French countable nouns#ANGLECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:French masculine nouns#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- (geometryCategory:fr:Geometry#ANGLE) a geometric angle
- La mesure d'un angle droit est égale à 90 degrés.
- The measure of a right angle is equal to 90 degrees.
- a location at the corner of something, such as streets, buildings, furniture etc.
- Synonym: coin
- a viewpoint or angle
Usage notes
- Inside a room, the word coin (“corner”) is more usual.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: ang
See also
Further reading
- “angle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Verb
angleCategory:German non-lemma forms#ANGLECategory:German verb forms#ANGLECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- inflection of angeln:
Haitian Creole
Alternative forms
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#AGLE anglais (“English”).
Pronunciation
Noun
angleCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#AGLECategory:Haitian Creole nouns#AGLECategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#AGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- English language
References
- Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 9
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
angle f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ANGLECategory:Italian adjective forms#ANGLECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
Noun
angle fCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ANGLECategory:Italian noun forms#ANGLECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
Anagrams
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Mauritian Creole terms derived from French#ANGLE anglais.
Noun
angleCategory:Mauritian Creole lemmas#ANGLECategory:Mauritian Creole nouns#ANGLECategory:Mauritian Creole entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- English language
Adjective
angleCategory:Mauritian Creole lemmas#ANGLECategory:Mauritian Creole adjectives#ANGLECategory:Mauritian Creole entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
Old English
Noun
angleCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#ANGLECategory:Old English noun forms#ANGLECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Late Latin#ANGLECategory:Old French terms derived from Late Latin#ANGLE angelus, from Ancient GreekCategory:Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek#ANGLE ἄγγελος (ángelos).
Noun
angle oblique singular, m (oblique plural angles, nominative singular angles, nominative plural angle)Category:Old French lemmas#ANGLECategory:Old French nouns#ANGLECategory:Old French masculine nouns#ANGLECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Old French masculine nouns#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE
- angel (biblical being)
Descendants
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High GermanCategory:Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Middle High German#ANGLECategory:Pennsylvania German terms derived from Middle High German#ANGLE angel, from Old High GermanCategory:Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German#ANGLECategory:Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German#ANGLE angul. Compare German angeln, English angle.
Verb
angleCategory:Pennsylvania German lemmas#ANGLECategory:Pennsylvania German verbs#ANGLECategory:Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header#ANGLECategory:Pages with entries#ANGLECategory:Pages with 11 entries#ANGLE