Corners are everywhere. Two lines form a corner. A triangle has three corners (or angles). Rooms and streets have corners too.
The key to a corner is that it leads in two directions: when you look at the corner of a room, you could hang a picture to the right or left of the corner, but not in the corner itself. A street corner usually has a street sign and sometimes a bus stop, too. A square table has four corners, but a round table doesn't have any corner. Notice how when you look straight at a corner, there's nowhere to go? That's why corner is also a verb. If you say, "I cornered him," it means you trapped him and gave him nowhere to turn. Whenever we don't see a lot of options, we feel cornered.
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the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
turn a corner
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a place off to the side of an area
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a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
gain control over
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a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
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