Corner
From Fresh Dictionary
See also córner
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English
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| spring | troops | meeting | #898: corner | spite | built | lower |
Etymology
Old French corniere, cornier, Late Latin cornerium, corneria, from Latin cornu horn, end, point. See horn.
Noun
Corner (plural Corners)
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- the chimney corner
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- the store on the corner
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
- From the four corners of the earth they come. — Shakespeare
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- Direction; quarter.
- The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant]
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone
- The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
Translations
(point where two converging lines meet) - See angle
(space in the angle between converging lines or walls)
(intersection of two streets)
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(part farthest from the center)
(secret or secluded place)
(direction)
(state of things produced by people who buy up whole of stock)
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Transitive verb
corner (cornering, cornered, cornered)
- To drive (someone) into a corner.
- To drive into a position of great difficaulty or hopeless embarrassment.
- corner a person in argument
- To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it.
- corner the shares of a railroad stock
- corner petroleum
- (automotive) to turn a corner or drive around a curve or to handle while turning
- It corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.
Translations
(drive into a corner)
(drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment)
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(get command of a stock or commodity)
Intransitive verb
corner
- Of an automobile, to move around a corner in a road.
- That BMW corners well.
(move around a corner in a road)
Derived terms
See also
ang:corner fr:corner io:corner it:corner hu:corner pt:corner fi:corner zh:corner