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diagonal
salient
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jag
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tilt
slopingly
angular unit
trirectangular
angle of Louis
bluntness
strut
slantingly
acuteness
dullness
inclination
knifelike
skew
inclined
complement
retrorse
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cusp
orthoptic
pitch
blunt
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angulation
cock
normal
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keen
incline
aslope
multangular
sloped
skewed
slanting
neb
antrorse
sloping
goniometry
concave
complementary angles
subtense
athwartwise
angle
subtendent
reflex angle
acute
backward
subangulate
knee
back
angulate
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pitched
perpendicular
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sideways-on
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crooked
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slanted
equisolid
diagonal
salient
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trirectangular
knifelike
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re-entrant
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aslope
multangular
sloped
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concave
acute
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angular shape
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cusp
orthoptic
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knee
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skew
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incline
angle
verb
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
noun
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
adj
adj
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Lean, lank.
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Measured by an angle.
noun
adj
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
noun
adj
- Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
- Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- Depicted in a leaping posture.
- Prominent; conspicuous.
noun
- An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
- An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
noun
- The measure of an angle.
- The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.
- Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
- The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
- Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.
- The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
verb
- To be at an angle.
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
adv
verb
- To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
- Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
- To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
- To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
noun
- A beam or rod providing support.
- An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
- An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
- A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
adv
noun
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- Fullness (of the moon).
- A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- The whole working force of a vessel.
- An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- The numeric complement of a number.
- Synonym of alexin
- An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
verb
prefix
noun
- A corner or external angle.
- A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- That which serves for payment or recompense.
- Money in general, not limited to coins.
- One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.
- A small circular slice of food.
verb
noun
- A sharp point or pointed end.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
verb
verb
- be at an angle
- throw or toss with a light motion
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- heel over
- erect and fasten
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- set the level or character of
noun
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- a high approach shot in golf
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
verb
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
noun
adj
- Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
- Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
- Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
- Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
- Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
- Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
- Fierce, intense, vehement.
verb
- To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
- To mourn.
- To make cold, to sharpen.
- To utter a keen.
noun
verb
- be at an angle
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
- lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
- feel favorably disposed or willing
- make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
noun
adj
- Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Hollow; empty.
- Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
noun
- A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
- An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- The vault of the sky.
- An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- A concave surface or curve.
verb
verb
- To place (something) at an angle.
- To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- To change direction rapidly.
- To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
noun
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- A change in direction.
- Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- The focus of a news story.
- The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
adj
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Urgent.
- Brief, quick, short.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
noun
- An acute accent (´).
- A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
- An accent or tone higher than others.
verb
adv
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
noun
noun
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- An act of kneeling on one knee, typically to acknowledge an injury or sacrifice or otherwise to show respect.
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
verb
adv
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
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