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单词 angled
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angledadj.

Brit. /ˈaŋɡld/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡəld/
Forms: 1500s–1600s angeled, 1500s– angled, 1600s anggled.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: angle n.2, -ed suffix2; angle v.1, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < angle n.2 + -ed suffix2, and partly < angle v.1 + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier sexangled adj., triangled adj., and slightly later quadrangled adj.With angled bracket n. at Compounds compare earlier angle bracket n.
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a. With modifying word or as the second element in compounds: having an angle or angles of a specified kind or number, as acute-angled, three-angled, etc. Also (esp. Botany) with preceding numeral.blunt-, high-, many-, oblique-, right-, sharp-, wry-angled, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > action of game > [adjective] > cornered
angled1551
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. ii. sig. d.i A blunte angeled triangle.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. iv. f. 110 The Pentagon or fiue angled figure.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. i. 50 The thrise three-angled beech nut shell.
1624 B. Jonson Neptunes Triumph 93 Fifty-angled custards.
1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements i. 4 An Oxygonium, or acute-angled Triangle, is that which hath three acute angles.
1735 J. Cheshire Treat. Rheumatism (new ed.) 22 A Particle of Humours becomes offensive in its own Nature, when from a Spherical Form or Figure it becomes acute-angled.
1751 C. Bisset Theory & Constr. Fortif. ii. xiv. 129 The Fronts must be more extended,..that the Bastions, in narrow-angled Polygons, may not be too small.
1845 J. Torrey & J. C. Frémont Descr. Plants in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 760 Stigmas coalescing into a small hemispherical 6-angled sessile head.
1855 H. W. Beecher Star Papers ii. xxv. 292 We love..the generous old English windows, large as the whole side of a room, many-angled, or circular.
1895 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22 307 Fruiting calyx thin, ovoid-cylindrical, reticulate, decidedly 10-angled.
1911 Geogr. Jrnl. 37 590 The..Kootenay river, whose acute-angled bend in Montana forms the southern boundary of the Purcell range.
1930 L. H. Bailey & E. Z. Bailey Hortus 168/2 Lvs. to 6 in. long, glaucous, 3-angled, gradually tapering from base to apex.
2005 New Republic 25 Apr. 37/1 The lens is sufficiently wide-angled to allow him to shoot very close to the scene.
b. Having an angle or angles; having an outline marked by angles.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective]
corneredc1330
corneledc1400
angulousa1460
angulated1486
unrounded1519
nookedc1550
corned1564
angular1570
cornery1576
angled1612
angulate1670
angulose1694
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 5 Her hauen angled so about her harbrous sound, That in her quiet Bay a hundred ships may ride.
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 249 Two or three other sorts of Seeds..; one is black and angled.
1788 Edinb. New Dispensatory (1797) i. ii. 55 A crucible which is angled at the top for the conveniency of pouring out.
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 50 The angl'd Jib with speed they hoist away.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 195 Tussilago Farfara; leaves..angled or lobed toothed.
1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) vii. 98 Some larvae are curiously humped and angled, as is the Pebble Prominent.
1987 Hesperia 56 46 The emperor has six jewels in the angled border of his dress.
2. Placed at angles with each other. Obsolete. rare.
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1820 D. M. Moir in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 492 The angled bones, the sand-glass, and the scythe.
3. Sport. Designating a shot, pass, etc., which is struck, kicked, or driven at an angle.
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1828 Descriptive & Hist. Sketch Curling 15 I promise never to go to the ice without a broom: I will fit fair; sweep weel; take all the brittle (angled) shots I can.
1922 Times 1 May 8/1 Though Mrs. Beamish won only the third game, she made Miss McKane work her hardest. Angled volleys won the set.
1969 R. Welsh Beginner's Guide Curling ii. 19 The new stone..rebounded consistently from other stones, making angled raises or wicks as predictably possible as billiard shots.
1989 Independent 9 Nov. 40/2 An even more inviting opportunity fell to Ian Ormondroyd, whom Platt sent clear on the left with a cleverly angled pass.
2002 Mirror 18 Mar. (Mania section) 13/4 His first was a right-foot angled volley, while his second was drilled low and hard into the bottom corner from almost exactly the same spot.
4. Placed at an (oblique) angle; sloping, slanting.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > placed at an angle
inclined1570
angulara1626
angled1833
1833 J. Cairnie Ess. Curling 134 Angled Guard, two stones guarding a winner obliquely, so that neither can be hit so as to move the winner.
1916 Amer. Midland Naturalist 4 347 Beaks rather full sculptured by five upward angled bars extending out as finer concentric lines in later bars.
1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 84 57 The spoil being deposited by the rear end of the angled blade in a low ridge along the side.
1966 A. MacLean When Eight Bells Toll i. 6 The rheostat of the angled table lamp had been turned down.
1991 Photo Answers July 95/3 Candid angle attachment. An accessory which screws onto the filter thread of your lens..and, thanks to an angled mirror, enables you to take shots of people/animals standing at right angles to you.
2006 New Yorker 31 July 83/2 All the office buildings..are simple boxes of glass and steel, almost Miesian (although some of them are raised on very un-Miesian angled pillars, like crossed legs).
5. Of a story, description, etc.: presented so as to reflect a particular viewpoint; slanted, biased. Cf. angle v.1 4.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [adjective]
angled1958
1950 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 2 Mar. 4/1 Now look at my latest speech... There isn't a single one of those class angled phrases of the Labor Day speech.]
1958 Manch. Guardian 29 Jan. 6/5 ‘Pravda’ carried 370 words on Mr. Macmillan's reply... It contained some direct quotation but in the main it was angled comment.
1958 Times 10 Oct. 8/3 A great deal of unwholesome, often erotically angled, American rubbish.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 18 Nov. 13 Even worse..would be a carefully angled Soviet propaganda drive after the summit, seeking to put the blame for lack of progress on Mr. Reagan's shoulders.
2004 G. Anderson in L. Holford-Strevens & A. Vardi Worlds of Aulus Gellius iv. 116 Gellius selects often quaintly angled stories for retelling, as miscellanists do.

Compounds

angled bracket n. = angle bracket n. 2.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets
parenthesis1582
squadron1618
parathesis1633
brace1656
hooks1680
bracket1750
circumflex1801
round bracket1847
curve1851
angle bracket1890
square bracket1891
paren1905
angled bracket1954
semi-quadratures-
1954 Rev. Eng. Stud. 5 381 Torn and illegible passages in angled brackets.
2002 Phoenix 56 163 Dot-sequences, angled brackets, and..italic type..aim to show Greekless readers what is there in the papyrus and what is modern surmise.
angled deck n. (on an aircraft carrier) a flight deck on which the landing path is inclined to the ship's fore-and-aft axis.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > decks on aircraft carrier
flight deck1924
flying deck1931
angled deck1952
through-deck1969
1952 Times 15 Nov. 6/6 The ‘angled deck’—an idea now being developed simultaneously in the United States and in the United Kingdom—enables the aircraft-carrier to land the most modern machines more rapidly and with greater safety.
2005 R. Harding Royal Navy 7 It was impossible to build new larger carriers for the new generation of heavier jet carrier-borne aircraft, so the angled deck, steam catapult and the ski ramp were alternative solutions to the problem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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