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- 1 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 B"
- 2 A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
"Give me mine angle: we'll to the river there."
- 3 A member of a Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus, one of several which invaded Britain and merged to become the Anglo-Saxons; an Anglian. historical
- 4 a biased way of looking at or presenting something wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons wordnet
- 7 A corner where two walls intersect.
"an angle of a building"
- 8 the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians wordnet
- 9 A change in direction.
"The horse took off at an angle."
- 10 A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
"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.”"
- 11 The focus of a news story.
- 12 Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- 13 A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud. slang
- 14 An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral. slang
"His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade."
- 15 A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
"though but an angle reached him of the stone"
- 16 Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- 1 To place (something) at an angle. transitive
"The roof is angled at 15 degrees."
- 2 To try to catch fish with a hook and line. intransitive
- 3 present with a bias wordnet
- 4 To change direction rapidly. informal, intransitive
"The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket."
- 5 To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing. figuratively, informal
"He must be angling for a pay rise."
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- 6 fish with a hook wordnet
- 7 To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint. informal, transitive
"How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?"
- 8 seek indirectly wordnet
- 9 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. transitive
- 10 to incline or bend from a vertical position wordnet
- 11 move or proceed at an angle wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin 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 ankle.
From Middle English anglen (“to meet at an angle, converge”), from the noun (see above).
From Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel (“hook, fishhook”), from Proto-West Germanic *angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *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”).
From Middle English anglen (“to fish, fish with a hook”, literally “to fish-hook”), perhaps from Old English *anglian, from Proto-West Germanic *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”).
Borrowed from Latin Anglus, in turn borrowed from a Germanic source (compare Old English Ængle/Engle (“Angle”)). Probably derived from the toponym Angle, related to Proto-Germanic *anguz "narrow, tight; tapering", either indicating the "narrow" water (i.e. the Schlei estuary), or the shape of the peninsula. Folk etymology linking the word to English angel or any antecedents is demonstrably false.
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