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Triangle
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- 1 A place in the United States:; The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.
"I moved to the Triangle two years ago."
- 2 A place in the United States:; A town in Broome County, New York.
- 3 A place in the United States:; A census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia.
- 4 A community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, seemingly in Labrador.
- 5 A place in England:; A hamlet in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO5401).
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- 6 A place in England:; A suburb of Burntwood in Hammerwich parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0507).
- 7 A place in England:; A small village south-west of Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0422).
- 8 A small town in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe.
- 9 Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 A polygon with three sides and three angles.
"The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus."
- 2 a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle wordnet
- 3 A set square. Canada, US
- 4 any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles wordnet
- 5 A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
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- 6 a three-sided polygon wordnet
- 7 A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- 8 something approximating the shape of a triangle wordnet
- 9 A love triangle.
"One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy."
- 10 The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- 11 A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- 12 A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment. historical, plural-normally
"I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles."
- 13 Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- 14 A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
"After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye."
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + -angle.
From triangle; in North Carolina from being a triangular region.
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