angle
NOUN 1:
1. a viewpoint; standpoint; point of view:
He looked at the problem only from his own angle; look at the question from another angle; the angle of a newspaper article.
2. one aspect of an event, problem, subject, etc.:
The accountant emphasized the tax angle of the leasing arrangement.
3. the precise viewpoint from which something is observed or considered:
a camera angle; consider the question from all angles
Also, the aspect seen from such an angle:
discuss all angles of the question.
4. a special approach, point of attack, or technique for accomplishing an objective:
try a new angle.
5. an often improper or illicit method of obtaining advantage:
a salesman always looking for an angle.
in a physical sense:
1. an angular projection; a projecting corner:
the angles of a building.
2. an angular projection or recess; corner.
3. a corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space:
They sheltered in an angle of the building.
4. the direction from which someone or something is approached:
soldiers being attacked from every angle; a football player trying to get an angle on an opponent [=approach an opponent from an effective angle].
5. a sharply divergent course:
The road went off at an angle.
Examples:
The lines are at sharp angles to each other; Critics love the clever camera angles the director used in the film. —Merriam-Webster.
in journalism:
1. slant (def. 11).
2. the point of view from which copy is written, especially when the copy is intended to interest a particular audience:
The financial editor added a supplementary article from the investor's angle.
in math, geometry, or a scientific sense:
1. the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
2. the figure so formed.
3. the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
4. a geometric figure formed by two lines that begin at a common point or by two planes that begin at a common line.
5. the space between such lines or planes, measured in degrees. See also acute angle obtuse angle right angle.
6. the space between two straight lines that diverge from a common point or between two planes that extend from a common line.
7. the shape formed by two such lines or planes.
9. the extent to which one such line or plane diverges from another, measured in degrees or radians.
10. Medical. the figure or space formed by the junction of two lines or planes.
11. the figure formed by two lines extending from the same point
Also, dihedral angle.
12. a measure of an angle or of the amount of turning necessary to bring one line or plane into coincidence with or parallel to another.
in movies, photography:
angle shot.
informal:
1. a secret motive:
She's been too friendly lately—what's her angle?
2. a selfish or devious motive or purpose.
in astrology:
any of the four interceptions of the equatorial circle by the two basic axes, the horizon and the meridian: commonly identified by the compass directions.
other:
angle iron (def. 2).
obsolete:
any piece of fishing tackle, esp a hook.
NOUN 2:
Archaic. a fishhook or fishing tackle.
NOUN 3:
(capitalized):
1. a member of a West Germanic people that migrated from Schleswig to Britain in the 5th century a.d. and founded the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria. As early as the 6th century their name was extended to all the Germanic inhabitants of Britain.
2. a member of a West Germanic people from N Germany who invaded and settled large parts of E and N England in the 5th and 6th centuries a.d.
3. a member of a Germanic people that invaded England along with the Saxons and Jutes in the fifth century a.d. and merged with them to form the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
Origin:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin angulus, akin to uncus “bent” and Greek ankýlos “crooked, curved”; cf. ancylo-, . Verb, noun 2: before 900; Middle English v. angelen, noun angel, angul,Old English angel, angul; cognate with Frisian, Dutch angel,Old Saxon, Old High German angul (>German Angel), Old Norse ǫngull;Greek ankýlos bent, Sanskrit ankuśá- hook; akin to Old English anga,Old High German ango,Latin uncus,Greek ónkos hook; relation, if any, to Latin angulusangle1 not clear. Noun 3: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin Anglus (plural Anglī ) source of Old English Engle (plural) “the English,” variant of Engle, the name of a tribe that lived in modern-day Angeln (so named from its shape), in Schleswig; akin to angle1; see English. Dictionary 2: angle1: C14: from French, from Old Latin angulus corner. angle2: Old English angul fish-hook; related to Old High German ango, Latin uncus, Greek onkos. angle3: from Latin Anglus, from Germanic (compare English), an inhabitant of Angul, a district in Schleswig (now Angeln), a name identical with Old English angul hook, angle ², referring to its shape. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of angle: Noun (1): 14th century. Verb (1): 14th century. Verb (2): 15th century. Noun (2): 14th century. History and Etymology for angle: Noun (1): Middle English, "corner, recess, two lines extending from the same point," borrowed from Anglo-French angle, aungle, going back to Latin angulus "two lines extending from the same point, corner, nook," going back to Indo-European *h2eng-lo-, *h2eng-elo-, whence also Old Church Slavic ǫgŭlŭ "corner, angle," Russian úgol, genitive uglá, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian ȕgao, ȕgla, Armenian ankiwn, and perhaps Germanic *ankula-, *ankila- ankle. Verb (1): Middle English anglen "to meet at an angle," derivative of angle angle entry 1. Verb (2): Middle English anglen, derivative of angel "fishhook," going back to Old English angel, ongel, going back to Germanic *angula- "hook, barb" (whence also Old Saxon angul "fishhook," Old High German, "hook, barb," Old Norse ǫngull "fishhook"), going back to Indo-European *h2enk-ul-ó-, derivative, perhaps diminutive, of a base *h2enk- seen also in the n-stem noun *h2enk-ón- (whence Old English anga "prick, goad," Old High German ango "sting, barb, door hinge," Greek ankṓn "bend, elbow"), suffixed in Greek ankýlos "bent, crooked, curved," and as an o-grade derivative in Greek ónkos "barb of an arrow," Latin uncus "curved at the extremities, hooked, a hook," and probably Sanskrit aṅkáḥ "curve, hook"; *h2enk- perhaps attested as a primary verb in Sanskrit áñcati, ácati "(it) bends, curves". Noun (2): Latin Angli, plural, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English Engle Angles. —Merriam-Webster.
See origin note at Merriam-Webster *
Sources: 1, 2.
1. a viewpoint; standpoint; point of view:
He looked at the problem only from his own angle; look at the question from another angle; the angle of a newspaper article.
2. one aspect of an event, problem, subject, etc.:
The accountant emphasized the tax angle of the leasing arrangement.
3. the precise viewpoint from which something is observed or considered:
a camera angle; consider the question from all angles
Also, the aspect seen from such an angle:
discuss all angles of the question.
4. a special approach, point of attack, or technique for accomplishing an objective:
try a new angle.
5. an often improper or illicit method of obtaining advantage:
a salesman always looking for an angle.
in a physical sense:
1. an angular projection; a projecting corner:
the angles of a building.
2. an angular projection or recess; corner.
3. a corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space:
They sheltered in an angle of the building.
4. the direction from which someone or something is approached:
soldiers being attacked from every angle; a football player trying to get an angle on an opponent [=approach an opponent from an effective angle].
5. a sharply divergent course:
The road went off at an angle.
Examples:
The lines are at sharp angles to each other; Critics love the clever camera angles the director used in the film. —Merriam-Webster.
in journalism:
1. slant (def. 11).
2. the point of view from which copy is written, especially when the copy is intended to interest a particular audience:
The financial editor added a supplementary article from the investor's angle.
in math, geometry, or a scientific sense:
1. the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line.
2. the figure so formed.
3. the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
4. a geometric figure formed by two lines that begin at a common point or by two planes that begin at a common line.
5. the space between such lines or planes, measured in degrees. See also acute angle obtuse angle right angle.
6. the space between two straight lines that diverge from a common point or between two planes that extend from a common line.
7. the shape formed by two such lines or planes.
9. the extent to which one such line or plane diverges from another, measured in degrees or radians.
10. Medical. the figure or space formed by the junction of two lines or planes.
11. the figure formed by two lines extending from the same point
Also, dihedral angle.
12. a measure of an angle or of the amount of turning necessary to bring one line or plane into coincidence with or parallel to another.
in movies, photography:
angle shot.
informal:
1. a secret motive:
She's been too friendly lately—what's her angle?
2. a selfish or devious motive or purpose.
in astrology:
any of the four interceptions of the equatorial circle by the two basic axes, the horizon and the meridian: commonly identified by the compass directions.
other:
angle iron (def. 2).
obsolete:
any piece of fishing tackle, esp a hook.
NOUN 2:
Archaic. a fishhook or fishing tackle.
NOUN 3:
(capitalized):
1. a member of a West Germanic people that migrated from Schleswig to Britain in the 5th century a.d. and founded the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria. As early as the 6th century their name was extended to all the Germanic inhabitants of Britain.
2. a member of a West Germanic people from N Germany who invaded and settled large parts of E and N England in the 5th and 6th centuries a.d.
3. a member of a Germanic people that invaded England along with the Saxons and Jutes in the fifth century a.d. and merged with them to form the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
Origin:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin angulus, akin to uncus “bent” and Greek ankýlos “crooked, curved”; cf. ancylo-, . Verb, noun 2: before 900; Middle English v. angelen, noun angel, angul,Old English angel, angul; cognate with Frisian, Dutch angel,Old Saxon, Old High German angul (>German Angel), Old Norse ǫngull;Greek ankýlos bent, Sanskrit ankuśá- hook; akin to Old English anga,Old High German ango,Latin uncus,Greek ónkos hook; relation, if any, to Latin angulusangle1 not clear. Noun 3: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin Anglus (plural Anglī ) source of Old English Engle (plural) “the English,” variant of Engle, the name of a tribe that lived in modern-day Angeln (so named from its shape), in Schleswig; akin to angle1; see English. Dictionary 2: angle1: C14: from French, from Old Latin angulus corner. angle2: Old English angul fish-hook; related to Old High German ango, Latin uncus, Greek onkos. angle3: from Latin Anglus, from Germanic (compare English), an inhabitant of Angul, a district in Schleswig (now Angeln), a name identical with Old English angul hook, angle ², referring to its shape. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of angle: Noun (1): 14th century. Verb (1): 14th century. Verb (2): 15th century. Noun (2): 14th century. History and Etymology for angle: Noun (1): Middle English, "corner, recess, two lines extending from the same point," borrowed from Anglo-French angle, aungle, going back to Latin angulus "two lines extending from the same point, corner, nook," going back to Indo-European *h2eng-lo-, *h2eng-elo-, whence also Old Church Slavic ǫgŭlŭ "corner, angle," Russian úgol, genitive uglá, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian ȕgao, ȕgla, Armenian ankiwn, and perhaps Germanic *ankula-, *ankila- ankle. Verb (1): Middle English anglen "to meet at an angle," derivative of angle angle entry 1. Verb (2): Middle English anglen, derivative of angel "fishhook," going back to Old English angel, ongel, going back to Germanic *angula- "hook, barb" (whence also Old Saxon angul "fishhook," Old High German, "hook, barb," Old Norse ǫngull "fishhook"), going back to Indo-European *h2enk-ul-ó-, derivative, perhaps diminutive, of a base *h2enk- seen also in the n-stem noun *h2enk-ón- (whence Old English anga "prick, goad," Old High German ango "sting, barb, door hinge," Greek ankṓn "bend, elbow"), suffixed in Greek ankýlos "bent, crooked, curved," and as an o-grade derivative in Greek ónkos "barb of an arrow," Latin uncus "curved at the extremities, hooked, a hook," and probably Sanskrit aṅkáḥ "curve, hook"; *h2enk- perhaps attested as a primary verb in Sanskrit áñcati, ácati "(it) bends, curves". Noun (2): Latin Angli, plural, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English Engle Angles. —Merriam-Webster.
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Sources: 1, 2.