corner
corners; cornered; cornering
Corners are everywhere. Two perpendicular lines form a corner. Rooms and streets have corners too. If a child misbehaves in class, the teacher might make him stand in the corner.
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“the corners of a cube”
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point
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
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point
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an interior angle formed by two meeting walls“a piano was in one corner of the room”
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synonyms:
nook
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amen corner
area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens'
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chimney corner, inglenook
a corner by a fireplace
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area
a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
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amen corner
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a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
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(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
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synonyms:
quoin
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construction, structure
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
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construction, structure
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the point where two lines meet or intersect“the corners of a rectangle”
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canthus
either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet
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nasal canthus
the inner corner of the eye
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temporal canthus
the outer corner of the eye
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point
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
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canthus
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the intersection of two streets
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street corner, turning point
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blind corner
a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving
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carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection
a junction where one street or road crosses another
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blind corner
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turn a corner“the car corners”
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turn
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
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turn
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a place off to the side of an area
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a remote area
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a small concavity
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pharyngeal recess
a small recess in the wall of the pharynx
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concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
a shape that curves or bends inward
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pharyngeal recess
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a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade“a corner on the silver market”
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monopoly
(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
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monopoly
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gain control over
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a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
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force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
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