anglen.²

Brit.

/ˈaŋɡl/, U.S.

/ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English angil, Middle English angille, Middle English angul, Middle English angyl, Middle English aungel, Middle English aungell, Middle English–1600s angel, Middle English–1600s angule, Middle English– angle, 1500s angell, 1500s angyll; Scottish pre-1700 angell, pre-1700 angill, pre-1700 anguel, pre-1700 1700s– angle, 1900s– angul.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French angle; Latin angulus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman aungle, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French angle (French angle) corner, recess, nook, angle (all 12th cent.), geographical area, corner of the world (14th cent. or earlier), astrological angle (a1324; compare sense 5), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin angulus angle or apex of a triangle or other plane rectilinear figure, junction of two edges or surfaces, corner, projecting point, corner of a room, building, or box, small part of a country, confined or narrow space, secluded corner of a house, nook, out-of-the-way spot, private retreat, a derivative formation (in -ulus -ulus suffix) < the same Italic base as Umbrian anglome to the corner < the same Indo-European base as Armenian ankiwn corner, ultimately showing a variant of the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀγκών bend of the arm, nook, bend, angle, ἀγκύλος crooked, curved, and angle n.¹With the semantic history compare corner n.¹ Ancient Greek ἀγκών and ἀγκύλος are suffixed forms of a base seen in ἄγκος ‘mountain valley’. This derives from the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit aṅka curve, hook and (with different vocalism) classical Latin uncus hook, ancient Greek ὄγκος barb.

a. A corner of a room or other enclosed space, esp. viewed internally or as a retreating space; a recess, a nook. Also figurative.

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the world > space > place > [noun] > set apart or out of the way

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > internal or pointing inward > in an enclosed space or a nook

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a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) 158 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 91 In he wende..& biheld aboute in euerich angle [c1300 Laud in-to eche huyrne].

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 40 For this chesoun Throwyn it [sc. a book] in the angle of oblyuyoun.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1959 Alle the houses Angles [c1475 Bodl. 638 aungelys] Ys ful of rovnynges and of Iangles.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 15300 (MED) Lych a wolff..Shep in a folde for to strangle And to devoure hem in som Angle.

1509 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 171 We be thraste downe into a very streyght angyll.

1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. A.ii.^v How say you woman? you that stand in the angle, Were you neuer acquainted with Nichol newfangle?

1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iii. sig. F Some darkned blushlesse Angle.

a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 321 For truth will seek no angles.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 57 To search the tenderest angles of the heart.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 208 I took notice of a large clump of great trees in an angle or deep corner, that seemed to stand very oddly.

1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iv. ii. 299 They..were conducted to an angle, in which a bench was placed close to the chinese rails.

1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil vii. 36 The..door..was placed in a dark angle of the room.

1897 B. Harte Three Partners viii. 318 He led them to a more secluded angle of the veranda.

1912 A. Conan Doyle Lost World iv. 34 He..placed her sitting upon a high pedestal of black marble in the angle of the hall.

2004 Africa News (Nexis) 28 Oct. They went inside my dad's room to take his laptop computer, searched inside the drawer and every angle of the room.

b. gen. An internal corner formed by the converging sides of anything (in quots., esp. of a part of the body).

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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 154 In þe heued bene 13 [veins]; 2 byhynd þe erez, 2 in þe anglez of þe eyen.

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. ii. 119 In laughter there is made, by reason of the Contranixion, a certaine corrugation..about the angle of the eye.

1776 J. Innes Short Descr. Human Muscles 27 Inserted into the angle of the mouth, within the orbicularis oris.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. iv. 468 Herbs with perennial roots and regular flowers, supported sometimes..upon a peduncle which arises from the angle of the leaves and the stem.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. iii. i. §3. 395 It acts with double power, owing to the pulley-like attachment of the rein, and to its drawing against the angle of the mouth.

1927 ‘E. Bramah’ Max Carrados Myst. 160 He slyly inserted a nail in the angle of the instep.

1971 A. Shaffer Sleuth ii. 67 Here in the angle of the banister.

2008 Cardiovascular Business Week (Nexis) 29 Sept. 524 The findings in seven females provide a composite clinical picture of microcephaly,..soft tissue excrescences at the angle of the mouth, [etc.].

c. Ophthalmology. The angle between the cornea and the iris at the periphery of the anterior chamber of the eye, narrowing of which impedes the drainage of aqueous humour. Cf. angle-closure n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts

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1830 W. Mackenzie Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye xv. 685 Pushing the point of the instrument then obliquely through the lamellæ the cornea, it is to be carried through the anterior chamber, till it reaches the angle between the cornea and iris.

1891 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 5) IV. 1164 On the inside the curved circumferential portion of the cornea makes a blunt angle, ‘iridic angle’, with the outer edge of the more or less horizontal iris.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 80 947 Each patient presented with characteristic grayish-white translucent nodules on the iris or in the anterior chamber angle.

1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xvii. 52 Infiltration of inflammatory cells into the cornea and iridocorneal angle.

a. A point of land; a cape, a promontory. Also more generally (without reference to shape): an outlying region or district of a country, city, etc.; a remote or outlying spot; †any section of a larger region (obsolete). Cf. corner n.¹ 6a.

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > point of

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 187 Arcadia..is an angul [v.r. bosom; L. sinus] (þat is a corner) of Achaia.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. l. 2677 (MED) Breefli to descryue The siht of Breteyne..Set ferr westward..a smal angle callid Inglond.

a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 7 (MED) Frome þe brynke of Totenese vn-to the angille of Calidonye.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 99 (MED) Oon angle of the worlde, whiche hade noo knowledge of hooly decretys made by cownesayles.

1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye xli. sig. K.v^v Beholde ye eylandes & wonder ye angles of the erthe.

1563 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 256 That little angle where I was born, called Cowpland.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 54 Or what great deity tost thee to our desolat angle?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 224 Whom I left..In an odde Angle of the Isle.

1656 S. Holland in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 302 The fire of Emulation burnt fiercely in every angle of this Paradise.

1724 Magna Britannia III. 37/1 South Mims, a small Village lying in the utmost north Angle of this County.

1790 G. Crabbe Let. 7 Sept. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 42 Leicestershire affords a great variety not to be met with in this little Angle where I am situated, straitened between the Countries of Nottingham & Lincoln.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 105 In England, the manners, habits and dress of the capital, pervade to the remotest angle of the kingdom.

1818 Niles' Reg. 15 116/1 Calculate the immense extent of unappropriated territory..which stretches into the north-westernmost angle of the United States.

1905 C. Partridge Cross River Natives v. 89 This angle is peopled by the fierce Munchis or Mitshis, a warlike pagan tribe dreaded by their enemies on account of the deadly poison with which they smear their arrows.

1931 J. W. Thompson Econ. & Soc. Hist. Europe Later Middle Ages xv. 368 In the southeast angle of Asia Minor the kingdom of Little Armenia..was extinguished by the Mamelukes in 1347.

1999 H. B. Clarke in M. Keen Medieval Warfare iii. 47 King Alfred's mounted force crossing over the north-western angle of Salisbury Plain at first light would have been invisible until it came charging down the steep scarp of Edington Hill.

b. A corner of anything viewed externally or as a projection; a projecting corner (of a building, etc.). Also figurative.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > external or projecting

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1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 783/1 That corner stone that is layed in the hed of the angle.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 81 The Roundell hath no bonch or angle, Which may his course stay or entangle.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 20 That the Angles be firmly bound, which are the Nerves of the whole Edifice.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. viii. 801 He..ran his head..against the angle of that great Cabinet which stood by the Pallet on which the dead Parthenissa lay.

1718 R. Blackmore Coll. Poems Var. Subj. 71 The Angles of the Pedestal you'll grace With Figures proper to adorn each Place.

1747 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 29 in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 A flat Bundle of Fibres, which arises near the Angle of the Jaw from the Skin over the parotid Gland.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §11. 57 There is nothing more prejudicial to the grandeur of buildings, than to abound in angles.

1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 29 Mar. 136/1 Turning around an angle of the building to avoid observation.

1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 18 The superior angle is received into the interval formed by the union of the posterior and superior angles of the parietal bones.

1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks x. 381 It was of a pentangular shape with a bastion tower at each angle.

1937 Burlington Mag. Apr. 190/1 [He] produced..a few commodes of this type with bronze figures at the angles.

2002 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 5 Sept. 14 The Old Bakehouse, on the main Leicester Road corner, had the sharp angle of the building trimmed because of the number of coaching accidents.

c. More generally: any angular or sharp projection; an angular fragment. Also figurative. Cf. corner n.¹ 1c.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular object > angular extremity or fragment

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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 9 His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle Of rock deepe dented.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. iv. 478 Prudent Nature..euery part Couers with Water winding round about, Saue heer and there some Angles peeping out.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 97 Though but an Angle reach'd him of the Stone.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 172 Like so many rough pebbles shook long together in a bag, by amicable collisions, they have worn down their asperities and sharp angles.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen ii. 23 The angle of the oriental stirrup is a very poor substitute for spurs.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 229 We trod on the fractured angles of upturned ice.

1859 J. G. Whittier My Psalm 64 All the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm.

1944 E. Lucas in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ii. 75/1 The waller's hammer is used for this purpose—projecting corners and angles being knocked off.

1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Feb. e8 We've smoothed so many surfaces and gotten rid of so many angles that cars are looking soft and mushy.

3. The point at which two or more lines meet; a vertex. Also figurative.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > meeting-point of converging lines

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1372 Þe quadrangle conteyneþ tweye triangles if a lyne is y drawe from þe oon angle þerof to þe contrarie angle.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 42 In an heptagon, from one angle may be drawne lines to foure opposite angles.

1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel sig. A An angle is the touching of two lines not lying in one streight line.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 Severall lines, that meet in one Angle, and so touch but in a point.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 362 He is nexus utriusque mundi, the common Angle wherein the highest and noblest of Material and Corporeal Nature is joyned to the Spiritual.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 200/1 Let us suppose two diagonal lines to be drawn through opposite angles, and crossing each other on the faces of the Cube.

1932 R. Rodd Rome of Renaissance & To-day xii. 211 The Costaguti palace..gives its name to an irregular square at the angle where S. Angelo, S. Eustachio and Regola meet.

2006 T. Kielian in T. Tatlisumak & M. Fisher Handbk. Exper. Neurol. xxvii. 476 Drilling a burr hole at the angle where the sagittal and lambda sutures intersect.

a. The indefinite space between two lines or surfaces that meet, at or close to their meeting point; the shape formed by lines that meet. Also: the degree of divergence of two lines from one another, or of one line from a horizontal or vertical reference line or axis; an analogous property of a plane or planes (cf. dihedral angle at dihedral adj. 1, solid angle n. at solid adj. Compounds 5).The magnitude of an angle between two lines is measured in terms of the amount of rotation about the point of intersection required to bring one line into correspondence with the other, and is generally expressed either in degrees (a full circle being 360 degrees) or in radians (a full circle being 2π radians).acute, critical, exterior, interior, obtuse, right angle, etc.; adjacent, complementary, contiguous angles, etc.; (in practical applications) castor, climbing, curtain, downwash angle, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun]

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1371 Of dyuers touchyng of lynes comeþ diuers anglis. For som angle hatte rectus angulus, and somme obliquus and reflexus.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 222 By composicions Of anglis and of sly reflexions.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2^v There are of angles thre kindes, a right angle, an acute angle, and an obtuse angle.

1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas vi. sig. D.ij The work consisteth in findyng the quantitie of the angle of the same triangle at the Zenith.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. f. 128 Sphericall, that is to say, round Angels, which consist of two circular lines, drawne vppon a Sphericall superficies.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 120 This Iewell..a triangle of three rich diamonds, each angle..enriched with a great pearle.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 15 The Three Angles of a Triangle being equal to two right ones.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 32 Mitre, in Architecture, is the Workmen's Term for an Angle that is just 45 degrees, or half a right one.

1777 J. M. Varnum Let. 9 Nov. in G. Washington Papers (2002) Revolutionary War Ser. XII. 185 They will bring down their Water Craft..which will make a Line of Fire intersecting that from their Principal Battery..at an Angle of about thirty Degrees.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 87 A prism with a small refracting angle.

1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) i. 2 Its apex is abruptly terminated by a small pyramidion, whose faces are inclined at about an angle of sixty degrees.

1926 J. J. Connington Death at Swaythling Court vi. 108 With the protractor, he measured the angle made by the two lines on the map.

1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) iii. 71 Lines drawn at a tangent to opposite sides of the spire will meet beyond the apex at an angle of 11°.

2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. viii. 147 Mathematicians focused for many centuries on three problems in particular—squaring the circle, duplicating the cube, and trisecting the angle.

b. With of in noun phrases. The magnitude of the inclination of a line or plane with respect to another in a particular context or situation (esp. in Optics, Geology, and Aeronautics and similar subjects), as angle of approach (also angle of deflection, deviation, dip, elevation, inclination, rotation). See also specific instances at Phrases 2.angle of contingence, extinction, pitch, rake, torsion, weather: see at second element.

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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 137 Directe the ruler with hys two sightes vnto anye one place that you do see, & marke diligently the Angle of sight.

1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 104 You shal fynd 32.deg.⅓. the angle of deflexion.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 177 The Angle of Vision (as we finde it taught in the Perspectiues) doth not extend to a right Angle, but is somewhat lesse.

1666 J. Wallis Let. 24 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1966) III. 195 Why the Crookedness of an Arch, should be called an Angle of Contact; I know no other reason, but, because Mr. Hobs loves to call that Chalk, which others call Cheese.

1719 W. Whiston Longitude & Latitude found by Inclinatory or Dipping Needle 29 Suppose we are Travelling or Sailing along the Meridian of London, and we find the Angle of Dip, or Inclination to be 75°.

1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 154 By the means of this piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope..small angles of elevation or depression may be determined with great accuracy.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. §35. 29 The angular change of direction or the angle of deviation as it is called.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 180 The usual angle of rest in loose materials.

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 266/1 An instrument for measuring the angle of dip of a rock formation.

1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. xi. 158 A petrological microscope..differs..in having a rotating stage with means for measuring the angle of rotation.

1986 Cruising July 4/3 The angle of dip..is said to be positive in the northern hemisphere where the north end of the needle is inclined downwards.

2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 2 Nov. 5 Accident investigators ruled that neither pilot could have avoided the collision because of their angles of approach.

c. More generally, without implication of precise measurement or extent: incline, tilt, slant.Chiefly used with reference to angles other than 90 or 180 degrees. Cf. at angles with at Phrases 1b, at an angle at Phrases 1d.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc.

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1840 New Sporting Mag. June 366 That very attractive form which youths of fashion can assume when they hold their gold eye glass between the nose and eyelid at the true fashionable angle.

1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxxi. 399 An odd rambling wing,..slanting off at a wholly unarchitectural angle from the main house.

1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. ii. 16 The angle of the slatternly bag across his shoulders was an insult to the flame.

1955 F. O' Connor Wise Blood i. 9 Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat.

1979 Homes & Gardens June 126/1 His arm rose at a steep angle from his desk and pointed somewhere in the direction of the stratosphere.

2003 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 22/1 Darcey Bussell unwinds a long, elegant leg and twists it round to an alarming angle.

5. Astrology. Each of the four signs of the zodiac that are situated at the cardinal points of the compass (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn); each of the four equivalent points in a horoscope (ascendant, zenith or mid-heaven, descendant, and nadir); each of the signs or houses that are situated at these points.

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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > house

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ix. 464 Þey mowe deme and gesse what schal befalle by pri[n]cipate and maistrie, in housis in angules [read in housis anguler], oþir assendentes angulis oþir fallinge fro angulis... Þe west angule is Libra.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 255 Phebus hath laft the angle [c1410 Harl. angel] Meridional.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxvi. f. 232 Of which 12. houses the foure principall are foure points of the Zodiaque whereof two doe fall vpon the Horizon, and the other two vpon the Meridian, and are called principall points, poles, or Angles.

1645 G. Wharton Astrol. Judgement vpon his Maiesties Martch 3 We finde..the Sun (Lord of the First House) not unfortunately posited in the South Angle of the Heavens.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Horoscope of the first House is termed the Angle of the East.

1836 Pop. Encycl. III. ii. 798/1 The second [house] was the house of riches, &c.; the seventh, or angle of the west, the house of marriage.

1899 Class. Rev. 13 293/1 Manifestly..ὡροσκόπος does not denote as in modern parlance the entire natal figure, but one of its four angles.

1989 Astrology June 42/1 As the fourth and final angle of the horoscope, the Midheaven represents the culmination or end product of all your effort.

2001 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 64 206 He concludes that the theft was committed by women, because the Moon was in an angle and a bicorporeal sign (Pisces).

6. regional. A tunnel, a burrow; (North American) the underwater entrance to a beaver's lodge. Now rare.

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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > burrow

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c1720 C. Place in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 162 An old word still in use in the North which is Angle, & signifys a hole that runs underground, or the branch of a mine.

1771 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 23 Jan. (1792) I. 85 They opened the beaverhouse in the lodging, and found the angle firmly frozen up.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Manley & Corringham 6/1 Angles, artificial burrows used for capturing rabbits in warrens.

1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? 74 I know all the palaver of that business [sc. quartz mining]..all about lodes, ledges, outcroppings, dips, spurs, angles, shafts [etc.].

7. Any of the turning points on a winding or zigzag path, stream, etc.; a bend.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > point at which

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1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge xii. 57 The right hand wing..runs directly eastward for a mile together, pointing to a place on an angle of the river, called Radfin.

1796 M. Hays Mem. Emma Courtney I. xix. 121 In turning a sharp angle of the road, the horses took fright at some object, indistinctly seen.

1797 J. Bell Anat. Human Body II. ii. 428 One branch ascends towards the angle of the colon.

1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 84 Owing to a sudden angle of the river, or the projecting of some obstacle from the shore, they met a current of such irresistible force as to wheel them entirely round.

1892 A. Bierce Tales of Soldiers & Civilians 136 These mounted madmen..vanished round an angle of the road, shouting and firing their pistols.

1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vi. 52 The abrupt angle where a large stream changes from flowing down-dip to flowing along the strike is most obviously interpreted as an elbow of capture.

2006 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 12 Dec. b1 So lithe and linear is the steering..that every arch and angle of the road is easily executed.

8. Chiefly Building. = angle iron n. at Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other forms of iron

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1834 Archit. Mag. Aug. 234 I have often thought that outside doors might be greatly improved by having cast-iron angles at the bottom.

1905 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 6 177 For several years steel plates, beams, and angles have been produced in the United States more cheaply than anywhere else.

1968 P. Villiard Man. Veneering v. 45 A length of angle..is required. Brass is best, aluminum next best. Steel angle is not suitable because the surface is not true and smooth enough.

2004 Building Design (Nexis) 3 Sept. 19 An additional pair of rafters bolted either side of a steel angle on the leading edge of the roof.

a. The point or direction from which an object is approached, viewed, filmed, or otherwise addressed.See also camera, reverse angle, etc., at first element.

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1854 E. D. E. N. Southworth Lost Heiress xxxix. 408 A distant part of the saloon, where, from an oblique angle, unobserved himself, he continued to watch the maiden.

1922 P. Milne Motion Picture Directing xix. 169 The cameraman has been told from what angle you are going to ‘shoot’ the scene first.

1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 83 485 When a wave approaches a beach from an oblique angle it swings round so that it does not break synchronously along its whole length.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 336 For variety of continuity a different angle is often used in long shots, medium shots and close-ups of the same subject.

2006 Brides Sept.–Oct. 216/1 Multi-directional mirrors enable you to view your dream gown from every angle.

b. figurative. The perspective or aspect from which something is considered, regarded, or presented; a viewpoint, a standpoint. Frequently with preceding modifying word.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun]

spectaclec1386

reckoninga1393

sect1583

prospective1603

light1610

posture1642

point of view1701

stand1819

attitude of mind1832

psychology1834

standpoint1834

perspective1841–8

position1845

viewpoint1856

angle1860

way of looking at it1861

attitudea1873

pose1892

Anschauung1895

slant1905

1860 E. G. Parker Reminisc. Rufus Choate viii. 480 From whatever angle he looked at the facts, from whatever chords he struck the tones, you heard ever the same recurring strain.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 13 Tacit expectations of what would be done for him by Uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch.

1907 E. Wharton Let. 19 Nov. (1988) 124 As soon as I look at a subject from the novel-angle I see it in its relation to a larger whole, in all its remotest connotations.

1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 10 The study and appreciation of a culture from this angle imposes fresh obligations upon the archaeologist.

1942 World Rev. May 6/1 The right type of advertising man might be better as an adviser on the propaganda angle.

1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 259/3 This collection of essays..feels obliged to use such a selling angle to persuade America that a favourable attitude to colonialism can be held without giving hostages to Marxist criticism.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 5/3 Shostakovich's personal angle on Modernism was skewed by his distaste for French music.

c. colloquial (originally U.S.). A way of approaching a task; a modus operandi, a method or scheme (sometimes with implication of dishonesty or exploitation).

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination > instance of

machinationa1475

ingine1531

Machiavellianism1607

intrigue1692

plant1825

angle1958

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > violation of law > something illicit or criminal > illegal method

angle1958

1920 J. Conway in Variety 31 Dec. 8 He finally caught the proper angle... When in Rome do as the Romans do.

1921 J. Conway in Variety 18 Mar. 5 I thought I was hep to all the angles.

1936 K. M. Knight Clue of Poor Man's Shilling 81 Got an angle on the muffler—use it for a heater in cold weather. I got one fixed that way on my Ford.

1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. ix. 103 His angle was to sell off tapes and pictures to the dirt magazines.

1990 J. Kearns Life after Line v. 79 I try to have an angle on everything is what my motto is. I try to have an angle. I've done some dark angles to get somewhere, I've used blackmail.

10. Sport (also Billiards and Pool). = angle shot n. 1.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke

hazard1674

carambole1775

carom1779

cannon1802

screw1825

sidestroke1834

following stroke1837

cannonade1844

five-stroke1847

follow1850

scratch1850

fluke1857

jenny1857

bank shot1859

angle shot1860

draw shot1860

six-stroke1861

run-through1862

spot1868

quill1869

dead-stroke1873

loser1873

push1873

push stroke1873

stab1873

stab screw1873

draw1881

force1881

plant1884

anchor cannon1893

massé1901

angle1902

cradle-cannon1907

pot1907

jump shot1909

carry-along1913

snooker1924

1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 11 Oct. 4/4 The pool expert plays fair angles and knows all the angles that are required for good billiards, but he can't execute them as the billiardist can.

1934 Times 14 Feb. 6/3 Reiss, masking his shots well and playing some very neat angles, had little difficulty in drawing level at one game all.

1962 Times 27 Apr. 4/2 Miss Bentley raked the court with her long stride, her long reach, angles and the masked drop shot.

1995 Daily Mail (Nexis) 21 Mar. 59 One stunning routine saw him carry out alternate forehand and backhand angles from mid-court.

Phrases

P1.

†a. Nautical and Surveying. to take the angles: to take bearings using a sextant, theodolite, or similar instrument. Obsolete.

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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 138 You saye I shall take the Angles of sight of euerye place that I can see in the Horizont of my place.]

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 6 After you have taken the Angles..You must Protract or lay down the Figure.

1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 74 The other Distances may be got sufficiently exact by Intersections of a good Needle, without any other Instrument to take the Angles.

1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 190 Endeavoured to take the angles on shore with a..theodolite.

1861 D. Livingstone in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 281 We measured a base along the shore of 900 feet, and then took the angles.

1872 W. D. Johnson Diary 18 June in Rangelands (1993) 15 114/2 Fred and I the first to take the angles and sketch.

b. at angles with: (situated or aligned) so as to form an angle with; also at angles to.Generally with reference to an angle other than 90° or 180°. See also at an angle at Phrases 1d and at right angles at right angle n. 2.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase]

on (the) slenta1400

of squinc1440

at angles with1646

on the angle1753

on the (or a) skew1881

on the slant1884

on a slant1951

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 179 The thighes of other animals doe stand at angles with their spine, and have rectangular positions in birds.

1779 Crit. Rev. Jan. 23 The plants on the succeeding ridges are dropped by the eye, the dropper placing them opposite or at angles with those already planted.

1830 Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 502 A series of crests..traversing the country at angles to the line of the direction of the chain.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 11 Behind the portico of a detached house at angles with the street.

1937 Washington (Federal Writers' Project) p. xviii Across the city at angles to the lettered and numbered streets are the avenues named after States.

1974 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 33 284/1 The latitudinal rings around the earth would be parallel rather than at angles with the visual axis.

2005 J. D. Keyser & G. Poetschat Warrior Art Wyoming's Green River Basin 133/1 Straight lines meeting at angles with one another.

c. on the angle: obliquely. Cf. on the slant at slant n.¹ 3a.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase]

on (the) slenta1400

of squinc1440

at angles with1646

on the angle1753

on the (or a) skew1881

on the slant1884

on a slant1951

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty iii. 19 The painter, if he is left to his choice, takes it on the angle rather than in front.

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 131/1 The idea of the scenography, or view in perspective, taken on the angle.

1911 G. H. West Gothic Archit. v. 119 At the Abbaye aux Hommes and Bayeux a roll is cut on the angle.

1980 Theatre Jrnl. 32 29 The straight line could indicate either another three-dimensional unit stage left, or a flat set on the angle, or merely the limits of the acting area.

d. at an angle: in a direction or at an alignment away from the perpendicular or horizontal; so as to form an angle with (also with to); cf. at angles with at Phrases 1b.

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1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 277 He espied a young Man of a portly Personage, standing at an Angle.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 372 The spokes are set at an angle into the nave or centre-piece; so that..the wheel appears dished or hollow.

1858 J. A. Warder Hedges & Evergreens 98 The slasher with a wooden handle set at an angle with the edge of the blade.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 106 A projection, running out at an angle to the main chain.

1923 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Man. Entomol. 419 The Anophelines hang parallel to the surface..but the Culicines hang at an angle.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 161/1 Start undercoat-plastering at the top of the wall, holding the trowel at an angle to the face of the wall.

e. colloquial. to know (all) the angles: to have a comprehensive knowledge of something; to understand the subtleties.

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1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 11 Oct. 4/4 The pool expert plays fair angles and knows all the angles that are required for good billiards, but he can't execute them as the billiardist can.

1807 E. White Pract. Treat. Billiards ii. 29 Nothing is so essentially requisite to constitute a good player, as a perfect knowledge of the angles of the table.]

1906 San Antonio (Texas) Gaz. 12 May (Mag.) 5/3 The team works well together; it knows the angles of the game [sc. baseball].

1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 116 The old stagers..the men who knew all the angles, who had great experience.

1977 J. Langone Life at Bottom xix. 200 She was a hot shit, I'll tell you, about forty and she knew all the angles.

2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 29 Nov. a13 We pride ourselves on our travel savvy. We figure we know all the angles.

f. North American colloquial. to play the angles and variants: to use every available means to achieve an end; cf. play v. 20d.

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1933 Fresno (California) Bee 12 Feb. 1 c/3 Jack Kearn plays his angles.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Mar. 14 He is a man who plays the angles, looks for the gimmick.

1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iii. 33 His words ignored by the other workmen, busy notching up the overtime, playing the angles.

2005 New Yorker 26 Sept. 158/2 His father posed as a Jew to gain asylum in the United States, and Yuri, playing the angles, uses that identity when it suits him.

P2. With complementary of-phrase.

angle of attack n. [probably after French angle d'attaque (1873 in aeronautics)] the angle between a surface and the direction of its motion, or the direction of motion of a surrounding medium; (Aeronautics) the angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the direction of the undisturbed airflow.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > angle of chord of wing with air current

angle of attack1908

angle of incidence1910

1889 Science 28 June 497/1 With a ram formed as this one is, the most advantageous angle of attack is precisely that which would be the most dangerous with the usual pattern, or, say, about twelve degrees.]

1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 7/3 The angle at which the plane is inclined to the direction of motion, the technical term for that angle being the angle of attack.

1971 Flying Apr. 107/2 Far easier and more accurate would be the universal adoption of angle-of-attack indicators.

1990 T. Cunliffe Easy on Helm iii. 22 Most boats seem to exhibit a certain amount of twist between the angle of attack of the bottom and top of their sails.

2003 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 270 1379 Both Perspex and birds' tail models produce lift similar to that predicted by delta-wing theory..at low angles of attack.

angle of contact n. †(a) Geometry the (infinitesimal) angle between a curve and its tangent at the point of contact, or between two adjacent tangents to a curve (obsolete); also called angle of contingence; (b) Physics the angle between two surfaces in physical contact; spec. the angle between the tangent to the surface of a droplet at its point of contact with a surface on which it rests, and the plane of that surface. [In sense (a) after post-classical Latin angulus contactus (1655 in the passage translated in quot. 1660).]

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1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements iii. xvi. 61 Any acute angle, to wit, EAD, is greater then the angle of contact DAI.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Angle of Contact, in a Circle, is proved by Euclid to be less than any right-lined Angle: But from hence it does not follow, that the Angle of Contact is of no Quantity, as some have imagined.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 649/2 For each combination of a solid and a fluid, there is an appropriate angle of contact, between the surface of the fluid, exposed to the air, and to the solid.

1942 Sci. Monthly Mar. 229/1 During sliding this force does not act normal to the ski bottom since the leading angle of contact is greater than the trailing angle.

2002 R. Limary & P. F. Green in R. Krishnamoorti & R. A. Vaia Polymer Nanocomposites xii. 149 The parameter that determines whether a liquid wets a substrate, or instead, forms a droplet with a finite angle of contact is the spreading coefficient.

angle of direction n. the amount of divergence of one line (of motion, force, direction, etc.) from a reference line, or that of two such lines from each other, expressed as the angle between them.

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1720 J. Keill Introd. Nat. Philos. xvi. 275 The Time of the Projection directly upwards, is to the Time of Projection in a Parabola, as Radius to the Sine of the Angle of Direction.

1860 Proc. Royal Soc. 11 578 He calls attention to the London, Tonbridge, and Dover–London lines of telegraph, making an angle of direction with each other of 149°.

1989 R. K. Adair Great Design xvii. 326 The vector gradient can be defined by..numbers proportional to the magnitude of the force on a ball at rest and the angle of direction of the force.

angle of friction n. the greatest angle at which a sloping surface will support an object without the object sliding down the surface.

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1859 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 149 223 Allowing on an average 10° for the limiting angle of friction, the angle of the plane of rupture may be taken at 55°.

1922 J. A. Crowther Pract. Physics xiii. 69 The maximum angle at which the block can rest on the plane without sliding down it is called the angle of friction.

1996 K. A. Seyedbagheri Idaho Forestry Best Managem. Pract. 36/2 The angle of friction for the soil material type is about 33 degrees.

angle of incidence n. [probably after post-classical Latin angulus incidentalis (1378 in a British source); compare French angle d'incidence (1637)] (a) Optics (originally) †the angle between a line or ray of light and a surface on which it falls (obsolete); (in later use) the angle between a line or ray of light and a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence; cf. incidence n. 4; (b) = angle of attack n. at Phrases 2aIn Optics the angle currently denoted by the term is the complement of that originally denoted. Cf. also Brewster angle n. at Brewster n.² 1a, polarizing angle n. at polarizing n. Compounds.

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the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction with respect to that of another > deviation from vertical or horizontal > angle formed by

angle of incidence1626

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > angle of chord of wing with air current

angle of attack1908

angle of incidence1910

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §245 In Mirrours, there is the like Angle of Incidence, from the Object to the Glasse, and from the Glasse to the Eye.

1672 I. Newton Let. 6 Feb. in Corr. (1959) I. 95 The Angle of Reflection of all sorts of Rays was equal to their Angle of Incidence.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxv. 414 When the angle of incidence exceeds a certain magnitude, the refraction may become impossible; and in this case the ray of light is wholly reflected.

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 454 Angle of Incidence, the angle made by the chord of the arc of a curved ‘plane’, or by the line of a flat plane, with the line of travel.

1972 R. Galopin & N. F. M. Henry Microsc. Study Opaque Minerals iii. 60/2 A newer design of glass-plate reflector..utilises two reflections in order to make the average angle of incidence on the glass plate 22½° instead of 45°.

1999 G. Cox Dict. Sport xi. 347/2 Washout, a twist in the wing that reduces the angle of incidence towards the wingtips.

angle of lag n. the fraction of a complete cycle, multiplied by 360 degrees or 2π radians, by which one oscillation lags behind another; that by which a sinusoidal current lags behind the associated sinusoidal voltage (cf. lag n.¹ 4b).

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1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 30 276 f here is the angle of lag of the sidereal semi-diurnal tide.

1945 Obit. Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 5 42 The performance of the transformer..can be expressed in terms of two fixed coefficients..and the angle of lag of the flux on the magnetizing current.

1975 New Phytologist 75 394 The relative phasing of the motion with respect to the driving winds is given in terms of the angle of lag ϕ_j.

angle of lead n. the fraction of a complete cycle, multiplied by 360 degrees or 2π radians, by which one oscillation is in advance of another; that by which a sinusoidal current leads ahead the associated sinusoidal voltage; also called phase lead.

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1846 B. L. Vulliamy On Constr. Dead Escapem. for Clocks 31 The pallets lead an equal angle to one another by the action of the wheel on each pallet, by only altering the angle of lead of one of the pallets, as originally drawn.

1908 Proc. Royal Soc. A 80 339 The phase difference..can be reduced to zero and can even be reversed in sign until from an angle of ‘lag’ it becomes an angle of ‘lead’.

2003 E. N. Ganic & T. H. Hicks McGraw-Hill's Engin. Compan. xvi. 23 The angle of lead or lag (the phase angle or the initial angle) is measured from the point x = 0 to the nearest zero value of the sine wave.

angle of leeway n. Nautical the angle made by the line of a ship's keel with the direction of its actual course.

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1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 32 Then, in the graduated arch contain'd, The ample angle of lee-way remain'd.

1765 M. Murray Suppl. 54 in Treat. Ship-building & Navigation (ed. 2) In calculating the angle of lee-way, he [sc. Bouguer] condemns the common vanes.

1863 A. Murray Ship-building (ed. 2) 63/1 The particles of water which strike the ship at an angle varying with the angle of lee-way will be reflected off the lee-side at the same angle.

1994 B. Finney et al. Voy. of Rediscovery vi. 186 Judgments of..how the direction and strength of the current and the angle of leeway may be affecting the actual course.

angle of polarization n. †(a) the angle of incidence at which a ray of light incident on a surface is polarized to the greatest degree on reflection; = polarizing angle n. at polarizing n. Compounds; (obsolete); (b) the orientation of the plane of polarization of a ray of plane-polarized light.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > polarization > [noun] > plane or angle of

plane of polarization1704

angle of polarization1814

polarizing angle1814

transversal1909

1814 D. Brewster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 225 (table) Angle of Polarisation.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xix. 170 The index of refraction is the cotangent of the angle of polarisation.

1913 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 212 391 It is not unreasonable to suppose that the portion of the scattered radiation due to self-illumination is independent of the angle of polarization of the incident radiation.

1998 Biotropica 30 276/1 The angle of polarization (or orientation of polarization) of partially linearly polarized light is defined as the dominant orientation of the e-vector (the spatial vector of the electrical field in the light beam).

angle of position n. [after post-classical Latin angulus positionis (1533 in Gemma Frisius Libellus de Locorum Describendorum Ratione; compare quot. 1559)] the angle between the direction of a point and some other direction regarded as fundamental; spec. (a) the angle formed at the eye by the lines of sight of two points; †(b) Astronomy the angle between the circles of declination and latitude of a celestial object (obsolete. rare); (c) Astronomy the angle between the hour-circle passing through a celestial object and the great circle joining that object to another celestial object (also called position angle); (Geography) the angle between the meridian of a place and the great circle passing through that place and another place.

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the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > other

declinationc1400

meridian altitudec1400

angle of position?a1560

zenith distance1588

refraction1603

azimuth1626

amplitude1627

horizontal parallax1665

complement1703

aberration1737

hour-angle1837

intercept1901

the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > position angle

angle of position1812

position angle1862

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 137 Directe the ruler with hys two sightes vnto anye one place that you do see, & marke diligently the Angle of sight, (Gemma Frisius calleth it) Angulus positionis.]

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxviii. sig. H iv Notyng vppon youre slate the angle of position from the dimetient to the lyne fiduciall.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxiv. sig. K iij ^v Turne the Diameter of your Semicircle, to euery Towne, Village, Hauen, Rode, or suche like,..noting..the Degrees cut by the Alhidada in the Circle, which I call the Angles of Position.

1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. viii. 58 When through a Star great circles are drawn respectively from the poles of the equator and ecliptic, they form at the Star an angle called the Angle of Position.

1848 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 8/1 The plan..contemplates measures of distance and angle of position upon all double and multiple stars.

1875 Times 11 Mar. 4/5 The slightest astronomical error in the angle of position would have thrown Venus entirely out of the field of view of the telescope.

1908 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 28 Nov. 3/5 [At the forthcoming eclipse] the angle of position of point of nearest approach [of the moon] will be twelve degrees to the West from the North point.

1991 Jrnl. Physics G. 17 991 θ is the azimuthal angle of position..to the galactic centre.

angle of reflection n. [compare French angle de réflexion (1637)] Optics the angle which a reflected ray of light makes with a line normal to the reflecting surface (or formerly †with the surface itself).

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > reflected light > plane or angle of

plane of reflection1704

angle of reflection1753

Brewster angle1950

1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. World in Moone i. iv. 58 Where the angel of reflexion is equall to the angel of incidence.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Reflexion Rays of light being supposed..to be reflected by a given curve, so as to make the angle of reflexion equal to the angle of incidence.

1846 Sci. Amer. 19 Dec. 104/1 The local tints of the bodies represented varying with every change that was made in the angle of reflexion.

1991 Leonardo 24 437/1 The military has developed another system that determines what someone is looking at by reading the angle of reflection of an infrared beam sent from specially coated contact lenses.

angle of refraction n. [compare French angle de réfraction (1637)] Optics (originally) †the angle which a refracted ray of light makes with the continuation of the incident ray (obsolete); (in later use) the angle which a refracted ray makes with a line normal to the surface of the refracting medium at the point of incidence.

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1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxiv. 280 The Angle of Refraction, is that which the Refracted line makes with the Line of Incidence produced.

1760 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. 214 When the refracting medium is water, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction, as 4 to 3.

1880 Times 10 Apr. 8/7 The sine of the angle of incidence..divided by the sine of the angle of refraction, is a constant quantity, and this is known now as the ‘index of refraction’.

2002 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 47 347/1 θ is the angle of refraction of the direct component of sunlight near the water surface.

angle of repose n. Mechanics the greatest angle between two movable planes in contact which is consistent with their stability; spec. the maximum angle to the horizontal at which the sloping side of a pile of loose material will remain stable; the maximum angle of the steepest slope on which a loose object will rest without rolling down under the influence of gravity (cf. angle of friction n. at Phrases 2d).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > angle at which earth will permanently stand

angle of repose1807

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > single layer on same level > specific angle of

angle of repose1807

1807 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 244 The most convenient way of estimating its magnitude is to incline the [two brick] surfaces to the horizon [forming an inverted V], until they begin to slide on each other. The angle at which this happens..may with propriety be called the angle of repose.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §805 Where the courses lie at an angle of about thirty-two degrees, or what is called the angle of repose for masonry.

1912 P. A. Amos Processes of Flour Manuf. x. 73 The ‘angle of repose’ of wheat is 30°.

1997 A. M. Jones Quiet Place of Violence i. x. 58 On these wet, steep hills, if moisture overextends the angle of repose, pieces of gumbo can roll and build like large snowballs.

angle of the jaw n. Anatomy the junction between the (approximately horizontal) body and the (approximately vertical) ramus of the lower jawbone; spec. the angle between the inferior margin of the body and the posterior margin of the ramus.

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1710 tr. C. G. Le Clerc 2nd Pt. Compl. Surgeon i. ii. 81 There is a very shallow Pit in the outer Face of the Angle of the Jaw, wherein one of the Tendons of the Masseter is fix'd.

1854 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1852–3 6 4 The undulated outline of the lower jaw in the Dicotyles group reaches its maximum in the great dilatation of the angle of the jaw in Platygonus.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xiv. 226/1 The subdivision Clupeomorpha..possess evolutionary advances over elopomorphs in terms of a modified joint at the posterior angle of the jaw (angular fused to articular rather than to retroarticular).

angle of view n. Optics and Photography the angular extent of a field of view, esp. that seen through the viewfinder of a camera; the angle subtended at the centre of a lens by two opposite edges or corners of an image.

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1800 J. Malton Young Painter's Maulstick 66 By the angle of vision, or angle of view, is to be understood, the expansion of the lines, proceeding from the eye, by the two extreme visual rays embracing the whole extent of the view.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 182 Another is the large field, or large angle of view, which may be obtained [under this microscope].

1876–7 in W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1878) 207 The diminution of light from the centre towards the margins of the pictures..increases rapidly with any increase of angle of view beyond 40°.

1949 R. H. Alder Movie Making for Everyone vi. 67 Most amazing of all is the ‘Zoom’ lens, in which the angle of view can be changed while the picture is actually being taken.

2003 Outdoor Photographer May 46/2 I use the term ‘angle of view’, because the focal length doesn't actually change.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, either with the sense ‘shaped like an angle, angular, bent’, or designating something situated at or in an angle of a building, room, etc.

angle column n.

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1771 W. Newton tr. Vitruvius Archit. iv. iii. 73 It is necessary that..the triglyphs over the angle columns be placed at the extremities [L. Contraque in angulares columnas triglyphi in extremis partius consituuntur].

1880 J. Middleton in Academy 21 Aug. 139/3 The angle columns have the least weight to bear.

1997 J. Bennett Trajan xi. 143 The four angle columns have their own pedestals.

angle leg n.

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1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 94 Like Flyes Caught by their Angle-legs.

1993 Global Communic. (Nexis) Mar. 19 When compared to angle legs, solid and tubular legs carry a lower wind load, have more efficient cross-sections and can be manufactured in many sizes.

angle niche n.

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1842 Dublin Rev. Feb. 132 At the corner of Weaman-street is [an] angle niche, containing an image of St. Chad.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country 121 This Clairvaux..Is situate in one angle-niche of three At equidistance from Saint-Rambert.

2005 C. Casey Dublin 395 The stair hall is..bounded by a Vitruvian scroll, above which are plaster panels and angle niches.

angle piece n.

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1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §295 Sixteen angle pieces of iron..in the nature of knee timbers of a ship.

1894 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 9 588 Horseman..on angle piece, around corner of which is a group of divinities.

1964 Child Devel. 35 526 The rod is attached to the enclosed cabinet by a stationary aluminum angle piece.

2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 20 May 7 A nurse had found an ‘angle piece’ of tube—which links a patient's face mask to the breathing tube—tucked away on a surgical trolley.

angle rafter n.

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1739 I. Gadsdon Geom. Rules made Easy iv. 37 (heading) To find the Hip or Angle Rafter of a Roof whose Plan is an Octagon or Hexagon.

1852 Putnam's Home Cycl. II. 167/2 Dragon beam, in architecture, an horizontal piece of timber on which the hip or angle rafters of a roof pitch.

1999 Korea Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. On July 12, 1433, angle rafters of Kunchongjon at the Kyongbok Palace were partly damaged.

angle rib n.

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1781 W. Pain Builder's Golden Rule 4 Tack in nails, and bend a thin lath, and mark as that curve directs, which will be the angle rib required.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 185 The angle ribs of the outer half meet the transverse ribs of the inner half of the vault.

2007 A. Brooks Pevsner's Worcestershire (rev. ed.) 490 One order of columns, shafts with cushion capitals with angle ribs.

angle-stone n.

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1782 W. Bailey One Hundred & Six Copper Plates Mech. Machines II. iii. x. 62 The particular form of the angle stones and joints in this Arch, appears new and ingenious.

1851 G. Wheeler Rural Homes xiv. 224 The angle stones or quoins, the masonry round the windows,..the weathering and plinth of the buttresses, should all be of cut stone.

2002 Archit. Hist. 45 52 Substantial quoin-stones, or angle-stones, are desirable, at the meeting-point of two differently aligned walls.

† angle-taper n. Obsolete

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1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxv. 165 The other two runne towards an Angle-taper, declining from twelve Inches in the But or bottome, to six Inches at the mouth.

angle tower n.

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1807 E. Montague Demon of Sicily II. vii. 92 The deserted and lonely situation of the South Angle Tower caught his attention, and he determined..to make it the prison of the Marchesa.

1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 June (1938) 110 No one knows how the outwork at Gaillard was breached: I fancy..that the angle tower was mined over the filled up moat.

2004 G. Connah Forgotten Africa xiii. 80 A two-storeyed square structure of about 25 by 25 metres, with conical angle towers and a square tower 32 metres in height.

angle turret n.

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1819 E. Fitzball Black Robber II. xii. 293 A quantity of narrow dark openings..which seemed to ornament, rather than enlighten the angle turrets.

1861 Times 18 May 14/2 (advt.) A lofty tower, containing five small rooms, with an angle turret.

2002 Victorian July 8/2 In banded brick and stone with angle turrets, it has an obvious kinship with his New Scotland Yard in London.

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angle bar n. (a) a glazing bar at the point where two angled windowpanes meet, as in a polygonal or bow window (now rare); (b) = angle iron n. (b); (c) Printing a metal bar positioned between two parts of a rotary press, used to turn over the roll of paper for printing on the reverse side.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket

bracket1627

fid1644

angle bracket1733

crank1769

angle bar1793

gusset18..

angle iron1819

angle plate1850

1793 P. Nicholson Carpenter's New Guide (title page) A great Variety of Designs for..Stair-cases and Hand-Rails of various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c.

1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 17/2 Angle-bar, in joinery, the upright bar at the angle of a polygonal window.

1851 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 39 414 Each row [of tines] is included between and affixed to two angle-bars.

1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 30 June 1/1 (advt.) The Cox Angle-bar press..is manufactured by the Duplex Printing Press company of Battle Creek, Mich.

1902 Census Bull. (U.S.) No. 216. 28 June 63/2 Two general classes of the web press are made. In one, what is called the ‘angle bar’ is utilized to turn the sheets.

1982 Jrnl. Latin Amer. Stud. 14 395 Railroad companies would specify the use of Mayarí steel in their orders..for..bolts and angle bars used in rail joints.

2005 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 22 May 3 f A knife separates one page, the length of the roll, which changes direction as it pulls across the angle bar and enters the cats' cradle that places it inside the other pages at the folder.

angle bead n. Building (a piece of) beading used to protect an exterior angle.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > vertical bead on exterior angle

angle bead1799

staff1812

staff-bead1833

staff-angle1875

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork

top-rail1679

sea-brace1776

angle bead1799

staff1812

angle-staff1825

warping1833

lipping1963

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln iii. 31 390 angle beads to jambs, at 3d.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 892 Angle beads of wood round the intradosses of circular arches are difficult to bend without cutting or steaming them.

1944 S. Maney It's Fun to make it Yourself 204/1 The ¾-in. dowels can be purchased cheaply in the form of angle bead.

1986 A. Limon in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) i. iii. 52 An alternative is to fit an angle bead, either square edged or rebated, so that the decorative sheeting has something to butt up against.

angle brace n. anything fixed across the angle between two components of a structure to impart rigidity or stability; esp. a straight piece of timber fixed obliquely across a right angle.

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1774 Descr. Cathedral Church Salisbury 13 On the walls of the nave and its crossing are eight flat arching braces;..likewise upon the former angle-braces are four others, which are inserted into the walls of the stair-case.

1834 J. Billington Archit. Director (ed. 2) 18 Angle-brace, angle-tie, diagonal-tie, a piece reaching across the angles of a square frame, making the opening an octagon.

1913 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 8 74/2 The whole construction is strengthened by angle braces cut out of forked branches.

1963 Art Bull. 45 100 Long angle-braces spring from the wall-pieces to lend intermediate support to the upper side-purlins and to the tie-beam.

2000 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. l5 (caption) Eric Peeks..supervises other Boy Scouts setting angle braces for a bridge he designed at the city park in Utica.

angle brick n. a brick whose sides are shaped so as to enable an angle other than 90 degrees to be turned.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > brick of specific shape

lath-brick1677

quadrel1686

well brick1703

cut splay1825

king closer1826

angle brick1852

bullhead1862

1852 G. H. Andrews Rudimentary Treat. Agric. Engin. I. v. 139 Angle bricks, 10¼-inches long, with one splayed corner, which answer for the quoins for 4¼-inch reveals, and for jambs.

1937 Discovery Sept. 289/2 Angle-bricks and half-sized bricks have been found.

1998 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 9 Sept. m1 The angle bricks could definitely be manufactured.

angle-closure n. Ophthalmology narrowing or blockage of the iridic angle (sense 1c); usually attributive, esp. in angle-closure glaucoma, designating a type of glaucoma in which drainage of aqueous humour is impeded by this; also called narrow-angle glaucoma.

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1955 P. A. Chandler & R. R. Trotter in A.M.A. Arch. Ophthalmol. 53 305/1 In narrow-angle glaucoma (hereinafter referred to as angle-closure glaucoma), the filtration apparatus is at first normal, and obstruction in outflow is due solely to closure of the angle by contact between the iris root and the trabecular wall.

1989 R. Ritch et al. Glaucomas II. xlvi. 825/1 The introduction of gonioscopy and the recognition of synchial angle-closure provided the basis for differentiation of open-angle and angle-closure glaucomas.

2000 Q. Rev. Biol. 75 221/2 The discussion of different forms of angle closure glaucoma.

angledozer n. [compare bulldozer n.] a type of bulldozer with a blade which is or can be set at an oblique angle, so that earth is pushed to one side rather than in the direction of travel.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > bulldozer

bulldozer1916

angledozer1935

dozer1942

1935 Roads & Streets Apr. 76 (advt.) Le Tourneau Angledozers..move 100 cu. yds. per hour right along.

1942 Times 9 Oct. 2/2 There are..machines for levelling—motor propelled scrapers—tractors, dumpers, angle-dozers and bulldozers.

1959 J. Miller Cartwheel xiv. 300 An angledozer..set to work grading landing points and beach exits to use in unloading the LST's.

2004 Construction Equipm. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 26 On some angle dozers, when the blade is all the way back, you lose sight of the lower corner, because it's obstructed by the tracks.

angle grinder n. a device with a rotating abrasive disc, used to grind, polish, or cut metal and other materials.So named because the gearhead on which the blade is mounted is set at a right angle to the motor.

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1939 6th Ann. Progr. Rep. San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Calif. Dept. Public Wks.) 1 July ii. 87 Eight pneumatic rotary and angle grinders were purchased during the year.

1971 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 2 Oct. 8 b/5 (advt.) For sale: heavy duty 9 inch Thor angle grinder.

2004 VW Motoring Jan. 46/4 She promptly bought herself a MIG-welder, angle grinder, jacks, tools and repair panels.

angle iron n. (a) (as mass noun) metal (esp. iron or steel) in the form of bars or lengths having an L-shaped cross-section, used esp. to strengthen, support, or secure a structure or framework; (b) (as a count noun) a piece of metal cast in this form.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket

bracket1627

fid1644

angle bracket1733

crank1769

angle bar1793

gusset18..

angle iron1819

angle plate1850

1819 T. S. Peckston Theory & Pract. Gas-lighting xiii. 243 That vessel consists..of nothing save the plate-iron rivetted together, and one small breadth of angle iron at the bottom and another round the top, inside.

1822 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 4 118 Riveting along the..gunwale of the boat ‘angle irons’, thin bars, or narrow plates of iron, turned over at right angles.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 422 Cells formed of boiler-plates riveted together with angle-iron.

1941 Mariner's Mirror 27 191 An angle iron for the mast wedging is..fitted and riveted to the plate around the mast holes.

1991 D. Purcell Place of Stones (1992) ii. 74 He had joined together two sides of the kennel, using two small angle-irons he found in the gardener's tool-box.

2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 130 A heavy sheet of metal about six foot by five foot, supported by heavy angle iron on the corners.

angle-meter n. an instrument for measuring angles, e.g. in determining the dip of geological strata or measuring altitudes; a clinometer.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring gradient

clinometer1811

angle-meter1841

inclinometer1852

gradiometer1899

gradometer1901

tiltmeter1937

1841 Rep. 10th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1840 210 On Mr. Bakewell's Anglemeter.

1940 Math. Gaz. 24 195 Observations of the altitude of the midday sun may also be made by a simple form of angle-meter.

2006 Forest Ecol. & Managem. 221 173/2 Tree height was measured with an angle-meter.

angle plate n. (a) = angle iron n. (b); (b) a piece of metal or bar with an L-shaped cross-section used as a guide to measure or set right angles.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket

bracket1627

fid1644

angle bracket1733

crank1769

angle bar1793

gusset18..

angle iron1819

angle plate1850

1850 J. Sewell Compl. Rules for Pract. Managem. Locomotive Engine (Gloss.) 63 in T. Tredgold Princ. & Pract. Machinery of Locomotive Engines I. The piece of wood or rope fixed to the angle plate to be pressed up against the wheel when required, to stop the engine.

1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. (1893) xviii.434 To the base is secured, by means of angle plates, a compound U-magnet, 7 inches high, formed of three steel magnets, one-quarter inch thick, secured together and to the angle plates by bolts.

1964 J. F. W. Galyer & C. R. Shotbolt Metrol. for Engineers iv. 66 Large angles, should be set off, where possible, by subtraction from 90°, i.e. set to the complement rather than the angle, and to a datum provided by an angle plate or cube known to be square to the table surface.

1993 Mod. Machine Shop (Nexis) July 50 The situation in this example can be rectified by fixturing the workpiece on a 90-degree angle plate.

2005 Build Design (Nexis) 25 Feb. 18 Extruded aluminium box-sections bolted together at corners with angle plates and bolted to steel to form frames at top and bottom of each cabinet.

angle post n. Building a supporting post positioned at a corner of a timber-framed structure (now chiefly historical); (also) a connecting post positioned at the angle where two sections of fencing meet; cf. corner-post n. at corner n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1797 P. Nicholson Carpenter & Joiner's Assistant 63 Beams on which the angle posts are fixed.

1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide Sci. & Pract. Agric. II. 596/1 The cost [of wire fencing] may be stated thus:—35 straining-posts and angle-posts, at 1s. 9d., [etc.].

1959 Times 19 Dec. 9/1 A house has a Tree of Jesse carved on the angle post.

2005 E. A. Noy & J. Douglas Building Surv. & Rep. (ed. 3) xv. 309 Fences of galvanised chain link secured to timber or steel angle posts.

angle shades n. [ < angle n.² + the plural of shade n.; compare later shade n. 3c] Entomology a noctuid moth of western Eurasia and North Africa, Phlogophora meticulosa, having forewings bearing angular markings and showing a scalloped rear edge when at rest (more fully angle shades moth); (also small angle shades) a somewhat similar but smaller and darker moth, Euplexia lucipara.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > phlogophora meticulosa (angle shades)

angle shades1766

1766 M. Harris Aurelian 75 (heading) Angle shades.

1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. xv. 168 (caption) Fig. 4. Euplexia lucipara (the small angle shades).

1938 C. A. Hall Pocket-bk. Brit. Butterflies 86 The Angle-Shades..is on the wing in June and again in the autumn.

1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles i. 294 The Small Angle Shades... The pale reniform mark on the outer edge of the blackish central area is the prominent feature of this pinkish or purplish brown moth.

2002 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 4 Nov. 8 At dusk, a green and buff ‘angle shades’ moth rests on the window with wings folded lengthways, looking like a crinkled leaf.

angle-staff n. Building (now rare) = angle bead n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork

top-rail1679

sea-brace1776

angle bead1799

staff1812

angle-staff1825

warping1833

lipping1963

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 605 Articles at per foot running, or lineal... Square or beaded angle-staff, rebated.

1830 ‘R. Stuart’ Dict. Archit. I. (at cited word) In apartments of elegance, the angle-staff is sometimes dispensed with, or is worked to the same face with the face of the wall.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 35/1 Angle-staff,..a strip of wood placed at an external angle formed by plastered surfaces to protect the corner from damage.

angle tie n. = angle brace n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > as (part of) a structure > specific

studding1588

interdice1617

punch1623

intertie1679

angle tie1782

pan1788

nogging piece1819

needling1854

nogging1895

1782 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 368 From the place into which this holdfast was driven to the outer end of the angle-tie.

1828 Times 13 Mar. 3/5 In the construction of the theatre, angle-ties were used to bind the walls.

1967 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 26 50/1 The terminal frames of the barn carried angle ties.

anglewing n. chiefly U.S. any of a group of nymphalid butterflies having notches on the outer edges of the forewings; spec. one of the genus Polygonia, which includes the commas; more fully anglewing butterfly.

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1860 Recreative Sci. May 359/2 Having found him, I made out by his angle wings that it was worth my while to get him, and soon he was dislodged, and reposing in my chloroform bottle.]

1868 E. Newman All Brit. Butterflies (single sheet) The family of the Angle Wings.

1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies i. 70 The margins of its wings [sc. those of the Mourning Cloak] are conspicuously notched, explaining its membership in the group of ‘anglewings’.

1972 Sunday Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 19 Nov. e2/6 Mourning cloaks, question marks, and other anglewing butterflies may still be about.

2004 Northern Woodlands Summer 4/2 Look for anglewings. Most of these butterflies, in the genus Polygonia, live in the forest and look like dead leaves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	angle
释义	anglen.¹ Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Forms: early Old English–Middle English angul, Old English ancgel, Old English ancgil, Old English ongel (Northumbrian), Old English ongul (Northumbrian), Old English–1600s angel, Middle English angil, Middle English angylle, Middle English hangul, Middle English– angle, 1500s hangle; also Scottish pre-1700 angell. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch angele , anghel (Dutch angel ), Old Saxon angul (Middle Low German angel ), Old High German angul (Middle High German angel , German Angel ), Old Icelandic ǫngull , Swedish angel , Danish angel hook, ultimately < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀγκύλος crooked, curved (see further angle n.²). Compare angle n.², Engle n. Now chiefly archaic and historical. 1. Originally: a fish hook. In later use also: the apparatus used for fishing in combination with this, as a line, rod, etc. Cf. angle-hook n.brother of the angle: see brother n. 5b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] angleeOE hookc950 angle-hooka1382 fish-hooka1387 preen1469 angling hook1549 fishing-hook1725 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xx. 48 Swa swa mid angl[e fisc gefangen bið]. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xvii. 27 Uade ad mare et mitte chamum : gae to sæ & sende ongul uel hoc. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 27 Wurp þinne angel ut [c1200 Hatton angel, c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. hoke, 1534 Tyndale angle, 1560 Geneva angle, 1582 Rheims hooke, 1611 King James hooke.] lOE tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 143 Swa swa þa fissces þe habbeð mycele blisse, þonne heo gegripeð þæt æs, & ne byð na þaget gewærre þæs angles þe þær inne sticað. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 12 Angylle to take wyth fysche: Piscale, fistuca. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. giij^v Here begynnyth the treatise of fysshynge wyth an Angle. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xl. 20 Darrest thou drawe Leuiathan with an angle? 1577 Arte of Angling sig. Ai^v And stand an houre by y^e water side with mine angle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 10 Giue me mine Angle, weele to'th'Riuer. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 120 You will be pleased too, if you find a Trout at one of our Angles . View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. in Misc. Poems & Transl. 131 A Fisher next, his trembling Angle bears. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 10 With patient angle trolls the finny deep. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 109/1 You get ready your angle—and by the time you have panniered three dozen [fish], you are at a wooden bridge. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro I. xv. 196 I had an attachment to the angle, ay, and to the gun likewise. 1863 J. S. Le Fanu House by Church-yard I. xxx. 238 He beheld his crony of the angle marching..up the aisle. 1925 H. R. Plomer Wynkyn de Worde & his Contemporaries 56 It [sc. the Book of Hawking]..contained a treatise of fishing with an angle, the first of its kind ever printed in this country. 1985 ELH 52 612 The guide has got out his angle and happily begun to fish when he notices his young pupil. †2. figurative. A person or thing that catches or ensnares like a hook. Obsolete.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] neteOE angleOE grinc1000 trapc1175 caltropa1300 lacec1330 girnc1375 espyc1380 webc1400 hook1430 settingc1430 lure1463 stall?a1500 stalea1529 toil1548 intrap1550 hose-net1554 gudgeon1577 mousetrap1577 trapfall1596 ensnarementa1617 decoy1655 cobweba1657 trepan1665 snap1844 deadfall1860 Judas1907 tanglefoot1908 catch-221963 trip-wire1971 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xiv. 296 He [sc. the devil]..gefredde þa ðone angel cristes godcundnysse þurh þa he wæs to deaðe aceocod. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccles. vii. D A woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett. 1537 W. Tyndale Expos. Epist. John 45 He can not..hyde the angle of his poysoned heresye vnder a bayte of true doctrine. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 23 Yea, Faith it selfe, and Zeale, be sometimes Angles Wherewith this Iugler Heau'n-bent Soules intangles. a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 835 When we have been at hearing of the Word, or Prayer, or Sacrament; now Satan casts in the Angle of a Temptation. 1798 H. L. Piozzi Three Warnings J. Bull 23 Satan catches souls by an angle in our country I confess. Compounds † angle-head n. Obsolete the barbed head of an arrow. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head angle-head1488 hook1488 swallowtail1545 flukea1600 fork1608 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 553 Ane angell hede to the hukis he drew And at a schoyt the formast sone he slew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). anglen.² Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English angil, Middle English angille, Middle English angul, Middle English angyl, Middle English aungel, Middle English aungell, Middle English–1600s angel, Middle English–1600s angule, Middle English– angle, 1500s angell, 1500s angyll; Scottish pre-1700 angell, pre-1700 angill, pre-1700 anguel, pre-1700 1700s– angle, 1900s– angul. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French angle; Latin angulus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman aungle, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French angle (French angle) corner, recess, nook, angle (all 12th cent.), geographical area, corner of the world (14th cent. or earlier), astrological angle (a1324; compare sense 5), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin angulus angle or apex of a triangle or other plane rectilinear figure, junction of two edges or surfaces, corner, projecting point, corner of a room, building, or box, small part of a country, confined or narrow space, secluded corner of a house, nook, out-of-the-way spot, private retreat, a derivative formation (in -ulus -ulus suffix) < the same Italic base as Umbrian anglome to the corner < the same Indo-European base as Armenian ankiwn corner, ultimately showing a variant of the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀγκών bend of the arm, nook, bend, angle, ἀγκύλος crooked, curved, and angle n.¹With the semantic history compare corner n.¹ Ancient Greek ἀγκών and ἀγκύλος are suffixed forms of a base seen in ἄγκος ‘mountain valley’. This derives from the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit aṅka curve, hook and (with different vocalism) classical Latin uncus hook, ancient Greek ὄγκος barb. 1. a. A corner of a room or other enclosed space, esp. viewed internally or as a retreating space; a recess, a nook. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > set apart or out of the way anglea1325 nooka1425 retreatc1500 odd corner1576 recess1611 off-corner1793 cubby1868 the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > internal or pointing inward > in an enclosed space or a nook anglea1325 nookc1380 cantona1533 quoin1795 nooking1828 ingle1877 a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) 158 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 91 In he wende..& biheld aboute in euerich angle [c1300 Laud in-to eche huyrne]. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 40 For this chesoun Throwyn it [sc. a book] in the angle of oblyuyoun. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1959 Alle the houses Angles [c1475 Bodl. 638 aungelys] Ys ful of rovnynges and of Iangles. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 15300 (MED) Lych a wolff..Shep in a folde for to strangle And to devoure hem in som Angle. 1509 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 171 We be thraste downe into a very streyght angyll. 1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. A.ii.^v How say you woman? you that stand in the angle, Were you neuer acquainted with Nichol newfangle? 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iii. sig. F Some darkned blushlesse Angle. a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 321 For truth will seek no angles. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 57 To search the tenderest angles of the heart. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 208 I took notice of a large clump of great trees in an angle or deep corner, that seemed to stand very oddly. 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iv. ii. 299 They..were conducted to an angle, in which a bench was placed close to the chinese rails. 1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil vii. 36 The..door..was placed in a dark angle of the room. 1897 B. Harte Three Partners viii. 318 He led them to a more secluded angle of the veranda. 1912 A. Conan Doyle Lost World iv. 34 He..placed her sitting upon a high pedestal of black marble in the angle of the hall. 2004 Africa News (Nexis) 28 Oct. They went inside my dad's room to take his laptop computer, searched inside the drawer and every angle of the room. b. gen. An internal corner formed by the converging sides of anything (in quots., esp. of a part of the body). ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 154 In þe heued bene 13 [veins]; 2 byhynd þe erez, 2 in þe anglez of þe eyen. 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. ii. 119 In laughter there is made, by reason of the Contranixion, a certaine corrugation..about the angle of the eye. 1776 J. Innes Short Descr. Human Muscles 27 Inserted into the angle of the mouth, within the orbicularis oris. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. iv. 468 Herbs with perennial roots and regular flowers, supported sometimes..upon a peduncle which arises from the angle of the leaves and the stem. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. iii. i. §3. 395 It acts with double power, owing to the pulley-like attachment of the rein, and to its drawing against the angle of the mouth. 1927 ‘E. Bramah’ Max Carrados Myst. 160 He slyly inserted a nail in the angle of the instep. 1971 A. Shaffer Sleuth ii. 67 Here in the angle of the banister. 2008 Cardiovascular Business Week (Nexis) 29 Sept. 524 The findings in seven females provide a composite clinical picture of microcephaly,..soft tissue excrescences at the angle of the mouth, [etc.]. c. Ophthalmology. The angle between the cornea and the iris at the periphery of the anterior chamber of the eye, narrowing of which impedes the drainage of aqueous humour. Cf. angle-closure n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts whitec1390 crystalline humoura1398 crystalloida1398 crystalline?a1425 eyeball1575 eyeglassa1616 crystalline lens1654 crystal1657 lens1719 membranula1821 zonule1828 angle1830 disc1861 1830 W. Mackenzie Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye xv. 685 Pushing the point of the instrument then obliquely through the lamellæ the cornea, it is to be carried through the anterior chamber, till it reaches the angle between the cornea and iris. 1891 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 5) IV. 1164 On the inside the curved circumferential portion of the cornea makes a blunt angle, ‘iridic angle’, with the outer edge of the more or less horizontal iris. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 80 947 Each patient presented with characteristic grayish-white translucent nodules on the iris or in the anterior chamber angle. 1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xvii. 52 Infiltration of inflammatory cells into the cornea and iridocorneal angle. 2. a. A point of land; a cape, a promontory. Also more generally (without reference to shape): an outlying region or district of a country, city, etc.; a remote or outlying spot; †any section of a larger region (obsolete). Cf. corner n.¹ 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > point of anglea1387 pitch1677 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 187 Arcadia..is an angul [v.r. bosom; L. sinus] (þat is a corner) of Achaia. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. l. 2677 (MED) Breefli to descryue The siht of Breteyne..Set ferr westward..a smal angle callid Inglond. a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 7 (MED) Frome þe brynke of Totenese vn-to the angille of Calidonye. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 99 (MED) Oon angle of the worlde, whiche hade noo knowledge of hooly decretys made by cownesayles. 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye xli. sig. K.v^v Beholde ye eylandes & wonder ye angles of the erthe. 1563 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 256 That little angle where I was born, called Cowpland. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 54 Or what great deity tost thee to our desolat angle? a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 224 Whom I left..In an odde Angle of the Isle. View more context for this quotation 1656 S. Holland in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 302 The fire of Emulation burnt fiercely in every angle of this Paradise. 1724 Magna Britannia III. 37/1 South Mims, a small Village lying in the utmost north Angle of this County. 1790 G. Crabbe Let. 7 Sept. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 42 Leicestershire affords a great variety not to be met with in this little Angle where I am situated, straitened between the Countries of Nottingham & Lincoln. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 105 In England, the manners, habits and dress of the capital, pervade to the remotest angle of the kingdom. 1818 Niles' Reg. 15 116/1 Calculate the immense extent of unappropriated territory..which stretches into the north-westernmost angle of the United States. 1905 C. Partridge Cross River Natives v. 89 This angle is peopled by the fierce Munchis or Mitshis, a warlike pagan tribe dreaded by their enemies on account of the deadly poison with which they smear their arrows. 1931 J. W. Thompson Econ. & Soc. Hist. Europe Later Middle Ages xv. 368 In the southeast angle of Asia Minor the kingdom of Little Armenia..was extinguished by the Mamelukes in 1347. 1999 H. B. Clarke in M. Keen Medieval Warfare iii. 47 King Alfred's mounted force crossing over the north-western angle of Salisbury Plain at first light would have been invisible until it came charging down the steep scarp of Edington Hill. b. A corner of anything viewed externally or as a projection; a projecting corner (of a building, etc.). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > external or projecting angle1532 elbow1626 piend1715 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 783/1 That corner stone that is layed in the hed of the angle. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 81 The Roundell hath no bonch or angle, Which may his course stay or entangle. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 20 That the Angles be firmly bound, which are the Nerves of the whole Edifice. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. viii. 801 He..ran his head..against the angle of that great Cabinet which stood by the Pallet on which the dead Parthenissa lay. 1718 R. Blackmore Coll. Poems Var. Subj. 71 The Angles of the Pedestal you'll grace With Figures proper to adorn each Place. 1747 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 29 in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 A flat Bundle of Fibres, which arises near the Angle of the Jaw from the Skin over the parotid Gland. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §11. 57 There is nothing more prejudicial to the grandeur of buildings, than to abound in angles. 1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 29 Mar. 136/1 Turning around an angle of the building to avoid observation. 1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 18 The superior angle is received into the interval formed by the union of the posterior and superior angles of the parietal bones. 1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks x. 381 It was of a pentangular shape with a bastion tower at each angle. 1937 Burlington Mag. Apr. 190/1 [He] produced..a few commodes of this type with bronze figures at the angles. 2002 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 5 Sept. 14 The Old Bakehouse, on the main Leicester Road corner, had the sharp angle of the building trimmed because of the number of coaching accidents. c. More generally: any angular or sharp projection; an angular fragment. Also figurative. Cf. corner n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular object > angular extremity or fragment cornera1330 nookc1380 crook1417 angle1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 9 His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle Of rock deepe dented. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. iv. 478 Prudent Nature..euery part Couers with Water winding round about, Saue heer and there some Angles peeping out. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 97 Though but an Angle reach'd him of the Stone. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 172 Like so many rough pebbles shook long together in a bag, by amicable collisions, they have worn down their asperities and sharp angles. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen ii. 23 The angle of the oriental stirrup is a very poor substitute for spurs. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 229 We trod on the fractured angles of upturned ice. 1859 J. G. Whittier My Psalm 64 All the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm. 1944 E. Lucas in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ii. 75/1 The waller's hammer is used for this purpose—projecting corners and angles being knocked off. 1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Feb. e8 We've smoothed so many surfaces and gotten rid of so many angles that cars are looking soft and mushy. 3. The point at which two or more lines meet; a vertex. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > meeting-point of converging lines anglea1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1372 Þe quadrangle conteyneþ tweye triangles if a lyne is y drawe from þe oon angle þerof to þe contrarie angle. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 42 In an heptagon, from one angle may be drawne lines to foure opposite angles. 1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel sig. A An angle is the touching of two lines not lying in one streight line. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 Severall lines, that meet in one Angle, and so touch but in a point. View more context for this quotation a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 362 He is nexus utriusque mundi, the common Angle wherein the highest and noblest of Material and Corporeal Nature is joyned to the Spiritual. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 200/1 Let us suppose two diagonal lines to be drawn through opposite angles, and crossing each other on the faces of the Cube. 1932 R. Rodd Rome of Renaissance & To-day xii. 211 The Costaguti palace..gives its name to an irregular square at the angle where S. Angelo, S. Eustachio and Regola meet. 2006 T. Kielian in T. Tatlisumak & M. Fisher Handbk. Exper. Neurol. xxvii. 476 Drilling a burr hole at the angle where the sagittal and lambda sutures intersect. 4. a. The indefinite space between two lines or surfaces that meet, at or close to their meeting point; the shape formed by lines that meet. Also: the degree of divergence of two lines from one another, or of one line from a horizontal or vertical reference line or axis; an analogous property of a plane or planes (cf. dihedral angle at dihedral adj. 1, solid angle n. at solid adj. Compounds 5).The magnitude of an angle between two lines is measured in terms of the amount of rotation about the point of intersection required to bring one line into correspondence with the other, and is generally expressed either in degrees (a full circle being 360 degrees) or in radians (a full circle being 2π radians).acute, critical, exterior, interior, obtuse, right angle, etc.; adjacent, complementary, contiguous angles, etc.; (in practical applications) castor, climbing, curtain, downwash angle, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner hirnec897 corner1340 cantlec1350 anglea1398 nooka1400 cornelc1420 coin1545 quoin1838 quain1868 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] anglea1398 corner1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1371 Of dyuers touchyng of lynes comeþ diuers anglis. For som angle hatte rectus angulus, and somme obliquus and reflexus. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 222 By composicions Of anglis and of sly reflexions. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2^v There are of angles thre kindes, a right angle, an acute angle, and an obtuse angle. 1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas vi. sig. D.ij The work consisteth in findyng the quantitie of the angle of the same triangle at the Zenith. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. f. 128 Sphericall, that is to say, round Angels, which consist of two circular lines, drawne vppon a Sphericall superficies. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 120 This Iewell..a triangle of three rich diamonds, each angle..enriched with a great pearle. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 15 The Three Angles of a Triangle being equal to two right ones. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 32 Mitre, in Architecture, is the Workmen's Term for an Angle that is just 45 degrees, or half a right one. 1777 J. M. Varnum Let. 9 Nov. in G. Washington Papers (2002) Revolutionary War Ser. XII. 185 They will bring down their Water Craft..which will make a Line of Fire intersecting that from their Principal Battery..at an Angle of about thirty Degrees. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 87 A prism with a small refracting angle. 1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) i. 2 Its apex is abruptly terminated by a small pyramidion, whose faces are inclined at about an angle of sixty degrees. 1926 J. J. Connington Death at Swaythling Court vi. 108 With the protractor, he measured the angle made by the two lines on the map. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) iii. 71 Lines drawn at a tangent to opposite sides of the spire will meet beyond the apex at an angle of 11°. 2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. viii. 147 Mathematicians focused for many centuries on three problems in particular—squaring the circle, duplicating the cube, and trisecting the angle. b. With of in noun phrases. The magnitude of the inclination of a line or plane with respect to another in a particular context or situation (esp. in Optics, Geology, and Aeronautics and similar subjects), as angle of approach (also angle of deflection, deviation, dip, elevation, inclination, rotation). See also specific instances at Phrases 2.angle of contingence, extinction, pitch, rake, torsion, weather: see at second element. ΚΠ 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 137 Directe the ruler with hys two sightes vnto anye one place that you do see, & marke diligently the Angle of sight. 1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 104 You shal fynd 32.deg.⅓. the angle of deflexion. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 177 The Angle of Vision (as we finde it taught in the Perspectiues) doth not extend to a right Angle, but is somewhat lesse. 1666 J. Wallis Let. 24 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1966) III. 195 Why the Crookedness of an Arch, should be called an Angle of Contact; I know no other reason, but, because Mr. Hobs loves to call that Chalk, which others call Cheese. 1719 W. Whiston Longitude & Latitude found by Inclinatory or Dipping Needle 29 Suppose we are Travelling or Sailing along the Meridian of London, and we find the Angle of Dip, or Inclination to be 75°. 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 154 By the means of this piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope..small angles of elevation or depression may be determined with great accuracy. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. §35. 29 The angular change of direction or the angle of deviation as it is called. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 180 The usual angle of rest in loose materials. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 266/1 An instrument for measuring the angle of dip of a rock formation. 1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. xi. 158 A petrological microscope..differs..in having a rotating stage with means for measuring the angle of rotation. 1986 Cruising July 4/3 The angle of dip..is said to be positive in the northern hemisphere where the north end of the needle is inclined downwards. 2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 2 Nov. 5 Accident investigators ruled that neither pilot could have avoided the collision because of their angles of approach. c. More generally, without implication of precise measurement or extent: incline, tilt, slant.Chiefly used with reference to angles other than 90 or 180 degrees. Cf. at angles with at Phrases 1b, at an angle at Phrases 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc. clininga1552 slant1655 slope1707 incline1798 inclination1809 angle1840 1840 New Sporting Mag. June 366 That very attractive form which youths of fashion can assume when they hold their gold eye glass between the nose and eyelid at the true fashionable angle. 1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxxi. 399 An odd rambling wing,..slanting off at a wholly unarchitectural angle from the main house. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. ii. 16 The angle of the slatternly bag across his shoulders was an insult to the flame. 1955 F. O' Connor Wise Blood i. 9 Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat. 1979 Homes & Gardens June 126/1 His arm rose at a steep angle from his desk and pointed somewhere in the direction of the stratosphere. 2003 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 22/1 Darcey Bussell unwinds a long, elegant leg and twists it round to an alarming angle. 5. Astrology. Each of the four signs of the zodiac that are situated at the cardinal points of the compass (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn); each of the four equivalent points in a horoscope (ascendant, zenith or mid-heaven, descendant, and nadir); each of the signs or houses that are situated at these points. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > house towerc1374 housea1393 mansionc1395 anglea1398 harbourc1405 palacec1425 cardinal point1585 synod house1589 dodecatemory1603 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ix. 464 Þey mowe deme and gesse what schal befalle by pri[n]cipate and maistrie, in housis in angules [read in housis anguler], oþir assendentes angulis oþir fallinge fro angulis... Þe west angule is Libra. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 255 Phebus hath laft the angle [c1410 Harl. angel] Meridional. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxvi. f. 232 Of which 12. houses the foure principall are foure points of the Zodiaque whereof two doe fall vpon the Horizon, and the other two vpon the Meridian, and are called principall points, poles, or Angles. 1645 G. Wharton Astrol. Judgement vpon his Maiesties Martch 3 We finde..the Sun (Lord of the First House) not unfortunately posited in the South Angle of the Heavens. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Horoscope of the first House is termed the Angle of the East. 1836 Pop. Encycl. III. ii. 798/1 The second [house] was the house of riches, &c.; the seventh, or angle of the west, the house of marriage. 1899 Class. Rev. 13 293/1 Manifestly..ὡροσκόπος does not denote as in modern parlance the entire natal figure, but one of its four angles. 1989 Astrology June 42/1 As the fourth and final angle of the horoscope, the Midheaven represents the culmination or end product of all your effort. 2001 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 64 206 He concludes that the theft was committed by women, because the Moon was in an angle and a bicorporeal sign (Pisces). 6. regional. A tunnel, a burrow; (North American) the underwater entrance to a beaver's lodge. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > burrow holec950 burrowa1375 dowera1398 earthc1450 anglec1720 pipe1738 tunnel1873 pig-hole1928 c1720 C. Place in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 162 An old word still in use in the North which is Angle, & signifys a hole that runs underground, or the branch of a mine. 1771 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 23 Jan. (1792) I. 85 They opened the beaverhouse in the lodging, and found the angle firmly frozen up. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Manley & Corringham 6/1 Angles, artificial burrows used for capturing rabbits in warrens. 1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? 74 I know all the palaver of that business [sc. quartz mining]..all about lodes, ledges, outcroppings, dips, spurs, angles, shafts [etc.]. 7. Any of the turning points on a winding or zigzag path, stream, etc.; a bend. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > point at which angle1740 turning-point1856 turnaround1959 1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge xii. 57 The right hand wing..runs directly eastward for a mile together, pointing to a place on an angle of the river, called Radfin. 1796 M. Hays Mem. Emma Courtney I. xix. 121 In turning a sharp angle of the road, the horses took fright at some object, indistinctly seen. 1797 J. Bell Anat. Human Body II. ii. 428 One branch ascends towards the angle of the colon. 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 84 Owing to a sudden angle of the river, or the projecting of some obstacle from the shore, they met a current of such irresistible force as to wheel them entirely round. 1892 A. Bierce Tales of Soldiers & Civilians 136 These mounted madmen..vanished round an angle of the road, shouting and firing their pistols. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vi. 52 The abrupt angle where a large stream changes from flowing down-dip to flowing along the strike is most obviously interpreted as an elbow of capture. 2006 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 12 Dec. b1 So lithe and linear is the steering..that every arch and angle of the road is easily executed. 8. Chiefly Building. = angle iron n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other forms of iron faggot ironc1503 sheaf-iron1572 merchant's irona1650 use1783 merchant iron1784 strap iron1833 angle1834 strip1887 1834 Archit. Mag. Aug. 234 I have often thought that outside doors might be greatly improved by having cast-iron angles at the bottom. 1905 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 6 177 For several years steel plates, beams, and angles have been produced in the United States more cheaply than anywhere else. 1968 P. Villiard Man. Veneering v. 45 A length of angle..is required. Brass is best, aluminum next best. Steel angle is not suitable because the surface is not true and smooth enough. 2004 Building Design (Nexis) 3 Sept. 19 An additional pair of rafters bolted either side of a steel angle on the leading edge of the roof. 9. a. The point or direction from which an object is approached, viewed, filmed, or otherwise addressed.See also camera, reverse angle, etc., at first element. ΚΠ 1854 E. D. E. N. Southworth Lost Heiress xxxix. 408 A distant part of the saloon, where, from an oblique angle, unobserved himself, he continued to watch the maiden. 1922 P. Milne Motion Picture Directing xix. 169 The cameraman has been told from what angle you are going to ‘shoot’ the scene first. 1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 83 485 When a wave approaches a beach from an oblique angle it swings round so that it does not break synchronously along its whole length. 1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 336 For variety of continuity a different angle is often used in long shots, medium shots and close-ups of the same subject. 2006 Brides Sept.–Oct. 216/1 Multi-directional mirrors enable you to view your dream gown from every angle. b. figurative. The perspective or aspect from which something is considered, regarded, or presented; a viewpoint, a standpoint. Frequently with preceding modifying word. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun] spectaclec1386 reckoninga1393 view1573 sect1583 prospective1603 light1610 posture1642 point of view1701 stand1819 attitude of mind1832 psychology1834 standpoint1834 perspective1841–8 position1845 viewpoint1856 angle1860 way of looking at it1861 attitudea1873 pose1892 Anschauung1895 slant1905 1860 E. G. Parker Reminisc. Rufus Choate viii. 480 From whatever angle he looked at the facts, from whatever chords he struck the tones, you heard ever the same recurring strain. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 13 Tacit expectations of what would be done for him by Uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch. 1907 E. Wharton Let. 19 Nov. (1988) 124 As soon as I look at a subject from the novel-angle I see it in its relation to a larger whole, in all its remotest connotations. 1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 10 The study and appreciation of a culture from this angle imposes fresh obligations upon the archaeologist. 1942 World Rev. May 6/1 The right type of advertising man might be better as an adviser on the propaganda angle. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 259/3 This collection of essays..feels obliged to use such a selling angle to persuade America that a favourable attitude to colonialism can be held without giving hostages to Marxist criticism. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 5/3 Shostakovich's personal angle on Modernism was skewed by his distaste for French music. c. colloquial (originally U.S.). A way of approaching a task; a modus operandi, a method or scheme (sometimes with implication of dishonesty or exploitation). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination > instance of machinationa1475 ingine1531 Machiavellianism1607 intrigue1692 plant1825 angle1958 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > violation of law > something illicit or criminal > illegal method angle1958 1920 J. Conway in Variety 31 Dec. 8 He finally caught the proper angle... When in Rome do as the Romans do. 1921 J. Conway in Variety 18 Mar. 5 I thought I was hep to all the angles. 1936 K. M. Knight Clue of Poor Man's Shilling 81 Got an angle on the muffler—use it for a heater in cold weather. I got one fixed that way on my Ford. 1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. ix. 103 His angle was to sell off tapes and pictures to the dirt magazines. 1990 J. Kearns Life after Line v. 79 I try to have an angle on everything is what my motto is. I try to have an angle. I've done some dark angles to get somewhere, I've used blackmail. 10. Sport (also Billiards and Pool). = angle shot n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke hazard1674 carambole1775 carom1779 cannon1802 screw1825 sidestroke1834 following stroke1837 cannonade1844 five-stroke1847 follow1850 scratch1850 fluke1857 jenny1857 bank shot1859 angle shot1860 draw shot1860 six-stroke1861 run-through1862 spot1868 quill1869 dead-stroke1873 loser1873 push1873 push stroke1873 stab1873 stab screw1873 draw1881 force1881 plant1884 anchor cannon1893 massé1901 angle1902 cradle-cannon1907 pot1907 jump shot1909 carry-along1913 snooker1924 1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 11 Oct. 4/4 The pool expert plays fair angles and knows all the angles that are required for good billiards, but he can't execute them as the billiardist can. 1934 Times 14 Feb. 6/3 Reiss, masking his shots well and playing some very neat angles, had little difficulty in drawing level at one game all. 1962 Times 27 Apr. 4/2 Miss Bentley raked the court with her long stride, her long reach, angles and the masked drop shot. 1995 Daily Mail (Nexis) 21 Mar. 59 One stunning routine saw him carry out alternate forehand and backhand angles from mid-court. Phrases P1. †a. Nautical and Surveying. to take the angles: to take bearings using a sextant, theodolite, or similar instrument. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 138 You saye I shall take the Angles of sight of euerye place that I can see in the Horizont of my place.] 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 6 After you have taken the Angles..You must Protract or lay down the Figure. 1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 74 The other Distances may be got sufficiently exact by Intersections of a good Needle, without any other Instrument to take the Angles. 1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 190 Endeavoured to take the angles on shore with a..theodolite. 1861 D. Livingstone in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 281 We measured a base along the shore of 900 feet, and then took the angles. 1872 W. D. Johnson Diary 18 June in Rangelands (1993) 15 114/2 Fred and I the first to take the angles and sketch. b. at angles with: (situated or aligned) so as to form an angle with; also at angles to.Generally with reference to an angle other than 90° or 180°. See also at an angle at Phrases 1d and at right angles at right angle n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase] on (the) slenta1400 of squinc1440 at angles with1646 on the angle1753 on the (or a) skew1881 on the slant1884 on a slant1951 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 179 The thighes of other animals doe stand at angles with their spine, and have rectangular positions in birds. View more context for this quotation 1779 Crit. Rev. Jan. 23 The plants on the succeeding ridges are dropped by the eye, the dropper placing them opposite or at angles with those already planted. 1830 Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 502 A series of crests..traversing the country at angles to the line of the direction of the chain. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 11 Behind the portico of a detached house at angles with the street. 1937 Washington (Federal Writers' Project) p. xviii Across the city at angles to the lettered and numbered streets are the avenues named after States. 1974 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 33 284/1 The latitudinal rings around the earth would be parallel rather than at angles with the visual axis. 2005 J. D. Keyser & G. Poetschat Warrior Art Wyoming's Green River Basin 133/1 Straight lines meeting at angles with one another. c. on the angle: obliquely. Cf. on the slant at slant n.¹ 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase] on (the) slenta1400 of squinc1440 at angles with1646 on the angle1753 on the (or a) skew1881 on the slant1884 on a slant1951 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty iii. 19 The painter, if he is left to his choice, takes it on the angle rather than in front. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 131/1 The idea of the scenography, or view in perspective, taken on the angle. 1911 G. H. West Gothic Archit. v. 119 At the Abbaye aux Hommes and Bayeux a roll is cut on the angle. 1980 Theatre Jrnl. 32 29 The straight line could indicate either another three-dimensional unit stage left, or a flat set on the angle, or merely the limits of the acting area. d. at an angle: in a direction or at an alignment away from the perpendicular or horizontal; so as to form an angle with (also with to); cf. at angles with at Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 277 He espied a young Man of a portly Personage, standing at an Angle. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 372 The spokes are set at an angle into the nave or centre-piece; so that..the wheel appears dished or hollow. 1858 J. A. Warder Hedges & Evergreens 98 The slasher with a wooden handle set at an angle with the edge of the blade. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 106 A projection, running out at an angle to the main chain. 1923 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Man. Entomol. 419 The Anophelines hang parallel to the surface..but the Culicines hang at an angle. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 161/1 Start undercoat-plastering at the top of the wall, holding the trowel at an angle to the face of the wall. e. colloquial. to know (all) the angles: to have a comprehensive knowledge of something; to understand the subtleties. ΚΠ 1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 11 Oct. 4/4 The pool expert plays fair angles and knows all the angles that are required for good billiards, but he can't execute them as the billiardist can. 1807 E. White Pract. Treat. Billiards ii. 29 Nothing is so essentially requisite to constitute a good player, as a perfect knowledge of the angles of the table.] 1906 San Antonio (Texas) Gaz. 12 May (Mag.) 5/3 The team works well together; it knows the angles of the game [sc. baseball]. 1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 116 The old stagers..the men who knew all the angles, who had great experience. 1977 J. Langone Life at Bottom xix. 200 She was a hot shit, I'll tell you, about forty and she knew all the angles. 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 29 Nov. a13 We pride ourselves on our travel savvy. We figure we know all the angles. f. North American colloquial. to play the angles and variants: to use every available means to achieve an end; cf. play v. 20d. ΚΠ 1933 Fresno (California) Bee 12 Feb. 1 c/3 Jack Kearn plays his angles. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Mar. 14 He is a man who plays the angles, looks for the gimmick. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iii. 33 His words ignored by the other workmen, busy notching up the overtime, playing the angles. 2005 New Yorker 26 Sept. 158/2 His father posed as a Jew to gain asylum in the United States, and Yuri, playing the angles, uses that identity when it suits him. P2. With complementary of-phrase. a. angle of attack n. [probably after French angle d'attaque (1873 in aeronautics)] the angle between a surface and the direction of its motion, or the direction of motion of a surrounding medium; (Aeronautics) the angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the direction of the undisturbed airflow. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > angle of chord of wing with air current angle of attack1908 angle of incidence1910 1889 Science 28 June 497/1 With a ram formed as this one is, the most advantageous angle of attack is precisely that which would be the most dangerous with the usual pattern, or, say, about twelve degrees.] 1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 7/3 The angle at which the plane is inclined to the direction of motion, the technical term for that angle being the angle of attack. 1971 Flying Apr. 107/2 Far easier and more accurate would be the universal adoption of angle-of-attack indicators. 1990 T. Cunliffe Easy on Helm iii. 22 Most boats seem to exhibit a certain amount of twist between the angle of attack of the bottom and top of their sails. 2003 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 270 1379 Both Perspex and birds' tail models produce lift similar to that predicted by delta-wing theory..at low angles of attack. b. angle of contact n. †(a) Geometry the (infinitesimal) angle between a curve and its tangent at the point of contact, or between two adjacent tangents to a curve (obsolete); also called angle of contingence; (b) Physics the angle between two surfaces in physical contact; spec. the angle between the tangent to the surface of a droplet at its point of contact with a surface on which it rests, and the plane of that surface. [In sense (a) after post-classical Latin angulus contactus (1655 in the passage translated in quot. 1660).] ΚΠ 1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements iii. xvi. 61 Any acute angle, to wit, EAD, is greater then the angle of contact DAI. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Angle of Contact, in a Circle, is proved by Euclid to be less than any right-lined Angle: But from hence it does not follow, that the Angle of Contact is of no Quantity, as some have imagined. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 649/2 For each combination of a solid and a fluid, there is an appropriate angle of contact, between the surface of the fluid, exposed to the air, and to the solid. 1942 Sci. Monthly Mar. 229/1 During sliding this force does not act normal to the ski bottom since the leading angle of contact is greater than the trailing angle. 2002 R. Limary & P. F. Green in R. Krishnamoorti & R. A. Vaia Polymer Nanocomposites xii. 149 The parameter that determines whether a liquid wets a substrate, or instead, forms a droplet with a finite angle of contact is the spreading coefficient. c. angle of direction n. the amount of divergence of one line (of motion, force, direction, etc.) from a reference line, or that of two such lines from each other, expressed as the angle between them. ΚΠ 1720 J. Keill Introd. Nat. Philos. xvi. 275 The Time of the Projection directly upwards, is to the Time of Projection in a Parabola, as Radius to the Sine of the Angle of Direction. 1860 Proc. Royal Soc. 11 578 He calls attention to the London, Tonbridge, and Dover–London lines of telegraph, making an angle of direction with each other of 149°. 1989 R. K. Adair Great Design xvii. 326 The vector gradient can be defined by..numbers proportional to the magnitude of the force on a ball at rest and the angle of direction of the force. d. angle of friction n. the greatest angle at which a sloping surface will support an object without the object sliding down the surface. ΚΠ 1859 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 149 223 Allowing on an average 10° for the limiting angle of friction, the angle of the plane of rupture may be taken at 55°. 1922 J. A. Crowther Pract. Physics xiii. 69 The maximum angle at which the block can rest on the plane without sliding down it is called the angle of friction. 1996 K. A. Seyedbagheri Idaho Forestry Best Managem. Pract. 36/2 The angle of friction for the soil material type is about 33 degrees. e. angle of incidence n. [probably after post-classical Latin angulus incidentalis (1378 in a British source); compare French angle d'incidence (1637)] (a) Optics (originally) †the angle between a line or ray of light and a surface on which it falls (obsolete); (in later use) the angle between a line or ray of light and a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence; cf. incidence n. 4; (b) = angle of attack n. at Phrases 2aIn Optics the angle currently denoted by the term is the complement of that originally denoted. Cf. also Brewster angle n. at Brewster n.² 1a, polarizing angle n. at polarizing n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction with respect to that of another > deviation from vertical or horizontal > angle formed by angle of incidence1626 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > angle of chord of wing with air current angle of attack1908 angle of incidence1910 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §245 In Mirrours, there is the like Angle of Incidence, from the Object to the Glasse, and from the Glasse to the Eye. 1672 I. Newton Let. 6 Feb. in Corr. (1959) I. 95 The Angle of Reflection of all sorts of Rays was equal to their Angle of Incidence. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxv. 414 When the angle of incidence exceeds a certain magnitude, the refraction may become impossible; and in this case the ray of light is wholly reflected. 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 454 Angle of Incidence, the angle made by the chord of the arc of a curved ‘plane’, or by the line of a flat plane, with the line of travel. 1972 R. Galopin & N. F. M. Henry Microsc. Study Opaque Minerals iii. 60/2 A newer design of glass-plate reflector..utilises two reflections in order to make the average angle of incidence on the glass plate 22½° instead of 45°. 1999 G. Cox Dict. Sport xi. 347/2 Washout, a twist in the wing that reduces the angle of incidence towards the wingtips. f. angle of lag n. the fraction of a complete cycle, multiplied by 360 degrees or 2π radians, by which one oscillation lags behind another; that by which a sinusoidal current lags behind the associated sinusoidal voltage (cf. lag n.¹ 4b). ΚΠ 1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 30 276 f here is the angle of lag of the sidereal semi-diurnal tide. 1945 Obit. Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 5 42 The performance of the transformer..can be expressed in terms of two fixed coefficients..and the angle of lag of the flux on the magnetizing current. 1975 New Phytologist 75 394 The relative phasing of the motion with respect to the driving winds is given in terms of the angle of lag ϕ_j. g. angle of lead n. the fraction of a complete cycle, multiplied by 360 degrees or 2π radians, by which one oscillation is in advance of another; that by which a sinusoidal current leads ahead the associated sinusoidal voltage; also called phase lead. ΚΠ 1846 B. L. Vulliamy On Constr. Dead Escapem. for Clocks 31 The pallets lead an equal angle to one another by the action of the wheel on each pallet, by only altering the angle of lead of one of the pallets, as originally drawn. 1908 Proc. Royal Soc. A 80 339 The phase difference..can be reduced to zero and can even be reversed in sign until from an angle of ‘lag’ it becomes an angle of ‘lead’. 2003 E. N. Ganic & T. H. Hicks McGraw-Hill's Engin. Compan. xvi. 23 The angle of lead or lag (the phase angle or the initial angle) is measured from the point x = 0 to the nearest zero value of the sine wave. h. angle of leeway n. Nautical the angle made by the line of a ship's keel with the direction of its actual course. ΚΠ 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 32 Then, in the graduated arch contain'd, The ample angle of lee-way remain'd. 1765 M. Murray Suppl. 54 in Treat. Ship-building & Navigation (ed. 2) In calculating the angle of lee-way, he [sc. Bouguer] condemns the common vanes. 1863 A. Murray Ship-building (ed. 2) 63/1 The particles of water which strike the ship at an angle varying with the angle of lee-way will be reflected off the lee-side at the same angle. 1994 B. Finney et al. Voy. of Rediscovery vi. 186 Judgments of..how the direction and strength of the current and the angle of leeway may be affecting the actual course. i. angle of polarization n. †(a) the angle of incidence at which a ray of light incident on a surface is polarized to the greatest degree on reflection; = polarizing angle n. at polarizing n. Compounds; (obsolete); (b) the orientation of the plane of polarization of a ray of plane-polarized light. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > polarization > [noun] > plane or angle of plane of polarization1704 angle of polarization1814 polarizing angle1814 transversal1909 1814 D. Brewster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 225 (table) Angle of Polarisation. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xix. 170 The index of refraction is the cotangent of the angle of polarisation. 1913 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 212 391 It is not unreasonable to suppose that the portion of the scattered radiation due to self-illumination is independent of the angle of polarization of the incident radiation. 1998 Biotropica 30 276/1 The angle of polarization (or orientation of polarization) of partially linearly polarized light is defined as the dominant orientation of the e-vector (the spatial vector of the electrical field in the light beam). j. angle of position n. [after post-classical Latin angulus positionis (1533 in Gemma Frisius Libellus de Locorum Describendorum Ratione; compare quot. 1559)] the angle between the direction of a point and some other direction regarded as fundamental; spec. (a) the angle formed at the eye by the lines of sight of two points; †(b) Astronomy the angle between the circles of declination and latitude of a celestial object (obsolete. rare); (c) Astronomy the angle between the hour-circle passing through a celestial object and the great circle joining that object to another celestial object (also called position angle); (Geography) the angle between the meridian of a place and the great circle passing through that place and another place. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > other declinationc1400 meridian altitudec1400 angle of position?a1560 zenith distance1588 refraction1603 azimuth1626 amplitude1627 horizontal parallax1665 complement1703 aberration1737 hour-angle1837 intercept1901 the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > position angle angle of position1812 position angle1862 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 137 Directe the ruler with hys two sightes vnto anye one place that you do see, & marke diligently the Angle of sight, (Gemma Frisius calleth it) Angulus positionis.] ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxviii. sig. H iv Notyng vppon youre slate the angle of position from the dimetient to the lyne fiduciall. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxiv. sig. K iij ^v Turne the Diameter of your Semicircle, to euery Towne, Village, Hauen, Rode, or suche like,..noting..the Degrees cut by the Alhidada in the Circle, which I call the Angles of Position. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. viii. 58 When through a Star great circles are drawn respectively from the poles of the equator and ecliptic, they form at the Star an angle called the Angle of Position. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 8/1 The plan..contemplates measures of distance and angle of position upon all double and multiple stars. 1875 Times 11 Mar. 4/5 The slightest astronomical error in the angle of position would have thrown Venus entirely out of the field of view of the telescope. 1908 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 28 Nov. 3/5 [At the forthcoming eclipse] the angle of position of point of nearest approach [of the moon] will be twelve degrees to the West from the North point. 1991 Jrnl. Physics G. 17 991 θ is the azimuthal angle of position..to the galactic centre. k. angle of reflection n. [compare French angle de réflexion (1637)] Optics the angle which a reflected ray of light makes with a line normal to the reflecting surface (or formerly †with the surface itself). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > reflected light > plane or angle of plane of reflection1704 angle of reflection1753 Brewster angle1950 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. World in Moone i. iv. 58 Where the angel of reflexion is equall to the angel of incidence. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Reflexion Rays of light being supposed..to be reflected by a given curve, so as to make the angle of reflexion equal to the angle of incidence. 1846 Sci. Amer. 19 Dec. 104/1 The local tints of the bodies represented varying with every change that was made in the angle of reflexion. 1991 Leonardo 24 437/1 The military has developed another system that determines what someone is looking at by reading the angle of reflection of an infrared beam sent from specially coated contact lenses. l. angle of refraction n. [compare French angle de réfraction (1637)] Optics (originally) †the angle which a refracted ray of light makes with the continuation of the incident ray (obsolete); (in later use) the angle which a refracted ray makes with a line normal to the surface of the refracting medium at the point of incidence. ΚΠ 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxiv. 280 The Angle of Refraction, is that which the Refracted line makes with the Line of Incidence produced. 1760 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. 214 When the refracting medium is water, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction, as 4 to 3. 1880 Times 10 Apr. 8/7 The sine of the angle of incidence..divided by the sine of the angle of refraction, is a constant quantity, and this is known now as the ‘index of refraction’. 2002 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 47 347/1 θ is the angle of refraction of the direct component of sunlight near the water surface. m. angle of repose n. Mechanics the greatest angle between two movable planes in contact which is consistent with their stability; spec. the maximum angle to the horizontal at which the sloping side of a pile of loose material will remain stable; the maximum angle of the steepest slope on which a loose object will rest without rolling down under the influence of gravity (cf. angle of friction n. at Phrases 2d). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > angle at which earth will permanently stand angle of repose1807 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > single layer on same level > specific angle of angle of repose1807 1807 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 244 The most convenient way of estimating its magnitude is to incline the [two brick] surfaces to the horizon [forming an inverted V], until they begin to slide on each other. The angle at which this happens..may with propriety be called the angle of repose. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §805 Where the courses lie at an angle of about thirty-two degrees, or what is called the angle of repose for masonry. 1912 P. A. Amos Processes of Flour Manuf. x. 73 The ‘angle of repose’ of wheat is 30°. 1997 A. M. Jones Quiet Place of Violence i. x. 58 On these wet, steep hills, if moisture overextends the angle of repose, pieces of gumbo can roll and build like large snowballs. n. angle of the jaw n. Anatomy the junction between the (approximately horizontal) body and the (approximately vertical) ramus of the lower jawbone; spec. the angle between the inferior margin of the body and the posterior margin of the ramus. ΚΠ 1710 tr. C. G. Le Clerc 2nd Pt. Compl. Surgeon i. ii. 81 There is a very shallow Pit in the outer Face of the Angle of the Jaw, wherein one of the Tendons of the Masseter is fix'd. 1854 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1852–3 6 4 The undulated outline of the lower jaw in the Dicotyles group reaches its maximum in the great dilatation of the angle of the jaw in Platygonus. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xiv. 226/1 The subdivision Clupeomorpha..possess evolutionary advances over elopomorphs in terms of a modified joint at the posterior angle of the jaw (angular fused to articular rather than to retroarticular). o. angle of view n. Optics and Photography the angular extent of a field of view, esp. that seen through the viewfinder of a camera; the angle subtended at the centre of a lens by two opposite edges or corners of an image. ΚΠ 1800 J. Malton Young Painter's Maulstick 66 By the angle of vision, or angle of view, is to be understood, the expansion of the lines, proceeding from the eye, by the two extreme visual rays embracing the whole extent of the view. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 182 Another is the large field, or large angle of view, which may be obtained [under this microscope]. 1876–7 in W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1878) 207 The diminution of light from the centre towards the margins of the pictures..increases rapidly with any increase of angle of view beyond 40°. 1949 R. H. Alder Movie Making for Everyone vi. 67 Most amazing of all is the ‘Zoom’ lens, in which the angle of view can be changed while the picture is actually being taken. 2003 Outdoor Photographer May 46/2 I use the term ‘angle of view’, because the focal length doesn't actually change. Compounds C1. General attributive, either with the sense ‘shaped like an angle, angular, bent’, or designating something situated at or in an angle of a building, room, etc. angle column n. ΚΠ 1771 W. Newton tr. Vitruvius Archit. iv. iii. 73 It is necessary that..the triglyphs over the angle columns be placed at the extremities [L. Contraque in angulares columnas triglyphi in extremis partius consituuntur]. 1880 J. Middleton in Academy 21 Aug. 139/3 The angle columns have the least weight to bear. 1997 J. Bennett Trajan xi. 143 The four angle columns have their own pedestals. angle leg n. ΚΠ 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 94 Like Flyes Caught by their Angle-legs. 1993 Global Communic. (Nexis) Mar. 19 When compared to angle legs, solid and tubular legs carry a lower wind load, have more efficient cross-sections and can be manufactured in many sizes. angle niche n. ΚΠ 1842 Dublin Rev. Feb. 132 At the corner of Weaman-street is [an] angle niche, containing an image of St. Chad. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country 121 This Clairvaux..Is situate in one angle-niche of three At equidistance from Saint-Rambert. 2005 C. Casey Dublin 395 The stair hall is..bounded by a Vitruvian scroll, above which are plaster panels and angle niches. angle piece n. ΚΠ 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §295 Sixteen angle pieces of iron..in the nature of knee timbers of a ship. 1894 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 9 588 Horseman..on angle piece, around corner of which is a group of divinities. 1964 Child Devel. 35 526 The rod is attached to the enclosed cabinet by a stationary aluminum angle piece. 2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 20 May 7 A nurse had found an ‘angle piece’ of tube—which links a patient's face mask to the breathing tube—tucked away on a surgical trolley. angle rafter n. ΚΠ 1739 I. Gadsdon Geom. Rules made Easy iv. 37 (heading) To find the Hip or Angle Rafter of a Roof whose Plan is an Octagon or Hexagon. 1852 Putnam's Home Cycl. II. 167/2 Dragon beam, in architecture, an horizontal piece of timber on which the hip or angle rafters of a roof pitch. 1999 Korea Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. On July 12, 1433, angle rafters of Kunchongjon at the Kyongbok Palace were partly damaged. angle rib n. ΚΠ 1781 W. Pain Builder's Golden Rule 4 Tack in nails, and bend a thin lath, and mark as that curve directs, which will be the angle rib required. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 185 The angle ribs of the outer half meet the transverse ribs of the inner half of the vault. 2007 A. Brooks Pevsner's Worcestershire (rev. ed.) 490 One order of columns, shafts with cushion capitals with angle ribs. angle-stone n. ΚΠ 1782 W. Bailey One Hundred & Six Copper Plates Mech. Machines II. iii. x. 62 The particular form of the angle stones and joints in this Arch, appears new and ingenious. 1851 G. Wheeler Rural Homes xiv. 224 The angle stones or quoins, the masonry round the windows,..the weathering and plinth of the buttresses, should all be of cut stone. 2002 Archit. Hist. 45 52 Substantial quoin-stones, or angle-stones, are desirable, at the meeting-point of two differently aligned walls. † angle-taper n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxv. 165 The other two runne towards an Angle-taper, declining from twelve Inches in the But or bottome, to six Inches at the mouth. angle tower n. ΚΠ 1807 E. Montague Demon of Sicily II. vii. 92 The deserted and lonely situation of the South Angle Tower caught his attention, and he determined..to make it the prison of the Marchesa. 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 June (1938) 110 No one knows how the outwork at Gaillard was breached: I fancy..that the angle tower was mined over the filled up moat. 2004 G. Connah Forgotten Africa xiii. 80 A two-storeyed square structure of about 25 by 25 metres, with conical angle towers and a square tower 32 metres in height. angle turret n. ΚΠ 1819 E. Fitzball Black Robber II. xii. 293 A quantity of narrow dark openings..which seemed to ornament, rather than enlighten the angle turrets. 1861 Times 18 May 14/2 (advt.) A lofty tower, containing five small rooms, with an angle turret. 2002 Victorian July 8/2 In banded brick and stone with angle turrets, it has an obvious kinship with his New Scotland Yard in London. C2. angle bar n. (a) a glazing bar at the point where two angled windowpanes meet, as in a polygonal or bow window (now rare); (b) = angle iron n. (b); (c) Printing a metal bar positioned between two parts of a rotary press, used to turn over the roll of paper for printing on the reverse side. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket bracket1627 fid1644 angle bracket1733 crank1769 angle bar1793 gusset18.. angle iron1819 angle plate1850 1793 P. Nicholson Carpenter's New Guide (title page) A great Variety of Designs for..Stair-cases and Hand-Rails of various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c. 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 17/2 Angle-bar, in joinery, the upright bar at the angle of a polygonal window. 1851 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 39 414 Each row [of tines] is included between and affixed to two angle-bars. 1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 30 June 1/1 (advt.) The Cox Angle-bar press..is manufactured by the Duplex Printing Press company of Battle Creek, Mich. 1902 Census Bull. (U.S.) No. 216. 28 June 63/2 Two general classes of the web press are made. In one, what is called the ‘angle bar’ is utilized to turn the sheets. 1982 Jrnl. Latin Amer. Stud. 14 395 Railroad companies would specify the use of Mayarí steel in their orders..for..bolts and angle bars used in rail joints. 2005 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 22 May 3 f A knife separates one page, the length of the roll, which changes direction as it pulls across the angle bar and enters the cats' cradle that places it inside the other pages at the folder. angle bead n. Building (a piece of) beading used to protect an exterior angle. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > vertical bead on exterior angle angle bead1799 staff1812 staff-bead1833 staff-angle1875 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork top-rail1679 sea-brace1776 angle bead1799 staff1812 angle-staff1825 warping1833 lipping1963 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln iii. 31 390 angle beads to jambs, at 3d. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 892 Angle beads of wood round the intradosses of circular arches are difficult to bend without cutting or steaming them. 1944 S. Maney It's Fun to make it Yourself 204/1 The ¾-in. dowels can be purchased cheaply in the form of angle bead. 1986 A. Limon in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) i. iii. 52 An alternative is to fit an angle bead, either square edged or rebated, so that the decorative sheeting has something to butt up against. angle brace n. anything fixed across the angle between two components of a structure to impart rigidity or stability; esp. a straight piece of timber fixed obliquely across a right angle. ΚΠ 1774 Descr. Cathedral Church Salisbury 13 On the walls of the nave and its crossing are eight flat arching braces;..likewise upon the former angle-braces are four others, which are inserted into the walls of the stair-case. 1834 J. Billington Archit. Director (ed. 2) 18 Angle-brace, angle-tie, diagonal-tie, a piece reaching across the angles of a square frame, making the opening an octagon. 1913 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 8 74/2 The whole construction is strengthened by angle braces cut out of forked branches. 1963 Art Bull. 45 100 Long angle-braces spring from the wall-pieces to lend intermediate support to the upper side-purlins and to the tie-beam. 2000 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. l5 (caption) Eric Peeks..supervises other Boy Scouts setting angle braces for a bridge he designed at the city park in Utica. angle brick n. a brick whose sides are shaped so as to enable an angle other than 90 degrees to be turned. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > brick of specific shape lath-brick1677 quadrel1686 well brick1703 cut splay1825 king closer1826 angle brick1852 bullhead1862 1852 G. H. Andrews Rudimentary Treat. Agric. Engin. I. v. 139 Angle bricks, 10¼-inches long, with one splayed corner, which answer for the quoins for 4¼-inch reveals, and for jambs. 1937 Discovery Sept. 289/2 Angle-bricks and half-sized bricks have been found. 1998 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 9 Sept. m1 The angle bricks could definitely be manufactured. angle-closure n. Ophthalmology narrowing or blockage of the iridic angle (sense 1c); usually attributive, esp. in angle-closure glaucoma, designating a type of glaucoma in which drainage of aqueous humour is impeded by this; also called narrow-angle glaucoma. ΚΠ 1955 P. A. Chandler & R. R. Trotter in A.M.A. Arch. Ophthalmol. 53 305/1 In narrow-angle glaucoma (hereinafter referred to as angle-closure glaucoma), the filtration apparatus is at first normal, and obstruction in outflow is due solely to closure of the angle by contact between the iris root and the trabecular wall. 1989 R. Ritch et al. Glaucomas II. xlvi. 825/1 The introduction of gonioscopy and the recognition of synchial angle-closure provided the basis for differentiation of open-angle and angle-closure glaucomas. 2000 Q. Rev. Biol. 75 221/2 The discussion of different forms of angle closure glaucoma. angledozer n. [compare bulldozer n.] a type of bulldozer with a blade which is or can be set at an oblique angle, so that earth is pushed to one side rather than in the direction of travel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > bulldozer bulldozer1916 angledozer1935 dozer1942 1935 Roads & Streets Apr. 76 (advt.) Le Tourneau Angledozers..move 100 cu. yds. per hour right along. 1942 Times 9 Oct. 2/2 There are..machines for levelling—motor propelled scrapers—tractors, dumpers, angle-dozers and bulldozers. 1959 J. Miller Cartwheel xiv. 300 An angledozer..set to work grading landing points and beach exits to use in unloading the LST's. 2004 Construction Equipm. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 26 On some angle dozers, when the blade is all the way back, you lose sight of the lower corner, because it's obstructed by the tracks. angle grinder n. a device with a rotating abrasive disc, used to grind, polish, or cut metal and other materials.So named because the gearhead on which the blade is mounted is set at a right angle to the motor. ΚΠ 1939 6th Ann. Progr. Rep. San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Calif. Dept. Public Wks.) 1 July ii. 87 Eight pneumatic rotary and angle grinders were purchased during the year. 1971 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 2 Oct. 8 b/5 (advt.) For sale: heavy duty 9 inch Thor angle grinder. 2004 VW Motoring Jan. 46/4 She promptly bought herself a MIG-welder, angle grinder, jacks, tools and repair panels. angle iron n. (a) (as mass noun) metal (esp. iron or steel) in the form of bars or lengths having an L-shaped cross-section, used esp. to strengthen, support, or secure a structure or framework; (b) (as a count noun) a piece of metal cast in this form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket bracket1627 fid1644 angle bracket1733 crank1769 angle bar1793 gusset18.. angle iron1819 angle plate1850 1819 T. S. Peckston Theory & Pract. Gas-lighting xiii. 243 That vessel consists..of nothing save the plate-iron rivetted together, and one small breadth of angle iron at the bottom and another round the top, inside. 1822 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 4 118 Riveting along the..gunwale of the boat ‘angle irons’, thin bars, or narrow plates of iron, turned over at right angles. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 422 Cells formed of boiler-plates riveted together with angle-iron. 1941 Mariner's Mirror 27 191 An angle iron for the mast wedging is..fitted and riveted to the plate around the mast holes. 1991 D. Purcell Place of Stones (1992) ii. 74 He had joined together two sides of the kennel, using two small angle-irons he found in the gardener's tool-box. 2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 130 A heavy sheet of metal about six foot by five foot, supported by heavy angle iron on the corners. angle-meter n. an instrument for measuring angles, e.g. in determining the dip of geological strata or measuring altitudes; a clinometer. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring gradient clinometer1811 angle-meter1841 inclinometer1852 gradiometer1899 gradometer1901 tiltmeter1937 1841 Rep. 10th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1840 210 On Mr. Bakewell's Anglemeter. 1940 Math. Gaz. 24 195 Observations of the altitude of the midday sun may also be made by a simple form of angle-meter. 2006 Forest Ecol. & Managem. 221 173/2 Tree height was measured with an angle-meter. angle plate n. (a) = angle iron n. (b); (b) a piece of metal or bar with an L-shaped cross-section used as a guide to measure or set right angles. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket bracket1627 fid1644 angle bracket1733 crank1769 angle bar1793 gusset18.. angle iron1819 angle plate1850 1850 J. Sewell Compl. Rules for Pract. Managem. Locomotive Engine (Gloss.) 63 in T. Tredgold Princ. & Pract. Machinery of Locomotive Engines I. The piece of wood or rope fixed to the angle plate to be pressed up against the wheel when required, to stop the engine. 1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. (1893) xviii.434 To the base is secured, by means of angle plates, a compound U-magnet, 7 inches high, formed of three steel magnets, one-quarter inch thick, secured together and to the angle plates by bolts. 1964 J. F. W. Galyer & C. R. Shotbolt Metrol. for Engineers iv. 66 Large angles, should be set off, where possible, by subtraction from 90°, i.e. set to the complement rather than the angle, and to a datum provided by an angle plate or cube known to be square to the table surface. 1993 Mod. Machine Shop (Nexis) July 50 The situation in this example can be rectified by fixturing the workpiece on a 90-degree angle plate. 2005 Build Design (Nexis) 25 Feb. 18 Extruded aluminium box-sections bolted together at corners with angle plates and bolted to steel to form frames at top and bottom of each cabinet. angle post n. Building a supporting post positioned at a corner of a timber-framed structure (now chiefly historical); (also) a connecting post positioned at the angle where two sections of fencing meet; cf. corner-post n. at corner n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1797 P. Nicholson Carpenter & Joiner's Assistant 63 Beams on which the angle posts are fixed. 1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide Sci. & Pract. Agric. II. 596/1 The cost [of wire fencing] may be stated thus:—35 straining-posts and angle-posts, at 1s. 9d., [etc.]. 1959 Times 19 Dec. 9/1 A house has a Tree of Jesse carved on the angle post. 2005 E. A. Noy & J. Douglas Building Surv. & Rep. (ed. 3) xv. 309 Fences of galvanised chain link secured to timber or steel angle posts. angle shades n. [ < angle n.² + the plural of shade n.; compare later shade n. 3c] Entomology a noctuid moth of western Eurasia and North Africa, Phlogophora meticulosa, having forewings bearing angular markings and showing a scalloped rear edge when at rest (more fully angle shades moth); (also small angle shades) a somewhat similar but smaller and darker moth, Euplexia lucipara. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > phlogophora meticulosa (angle shades) angle shades1766 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 75 (heading) Angle shades. 1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. xv. 168 (caption) Fig. 4. Euplexia lucipara (the small angle shades). 1938 C. A. Hall Pocket-bk. Brit. Butterflies 86 The Angle-Shades..is on the wing in June and again in the autumn. 1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles i. 294 The Small Angle Shades... The pale reniform mark on the outer edge of the blackish central area is the prominent feature of this pinkish or purplish brown moth. 2002 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 4 Nov. 8 At dusk, a green and buff ‘angle shades’ moth rests on the window with wings folded lengthways, looking like a crinkled leaf. angle-staff n. Building (now rare) = angle bead n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork top-rail1679 sea-brace1776 angle bead1799 staff1812 angle-staff1825 warping1833 lipping1963 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 605 Articles at per foot running, or lineal... Square or beaded angle-staff, rebated. 1830 ‘R. Stuart’ Dict. Archit. I. (at cited word) In apartments of elegance, the angle-staff is sometimes dispensed with, or is worked to the same face with the face of the wall. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 35/1 Angle-staff,..a strip of wood placed at an external angle formed by plastered surfaces to protect the corner from damage. angle tie n. = angle brace n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > as (part of) a structure > specific studding1588 interdice1617 punch1623 intertie1679 angle tie1782 pan1788 nogging piece1819 needling1854 nogging1895 1782 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 368 From the place into which this holdfast was driven to the outer end of the angle-tie. 1828 Times 13 Mar. 3/5 In the construction of the theatre, angle-ties were used to bind the walls. 1967 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 26 50/1 The terminal frames of the barn carried angle ties. anglewing n. chiefly U.S. any of a group of nymphalid butterflies having notches on the outer edges of the forewings; spec. one of the genus Polygonia, which includes the commas; more fully anglewing butterfly. ΚΠ 1860 Recreative Sci. May 359/2 Having found him, I made out by his angle wings that it was worth my while to get him, and soon he was dislodged, and reposing in my chloroform bottle.] 1868 E. Newman All Brit. Butterflies (single sheet) The family of the Angle Wings. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies i. 70 The margins of its wings [sc. those of the Mourning Cloak] are conspicuously notched, explaining its membership in the group of ‘anglewings’. 1972 Sunday Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 19 Nov. e2/6 Mourning cloaks, question marks, and other anglewing butterflies may still be about. 2004 Northern Woodlands Summer 4/2 Look for anglewings. Most of these butterflies, in the genus Polygonia, live in the forest and look like dead leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Anglen.³ Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Anglus, Anglī. Etymology: < classical Latin Anglus (plural Anglī) member of a certain Germanic-speaking tribe (Tacitus), in post-classical Latin also English person (late 6th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources: see discussion at English adj. and n.) < a continental Germanic word < the same Germanic base as Engle n. Compare Hellenistic Greek Ἀγγείλοι (Ptolemy; though this may denote a different tribe), Byzantine Greek Ἀγγίλοι (both plural). Compare earlier Engle n. (especially β. forms at that entry).Compare the following earlier unassimilated borrowing of Latin Anglus in its post-classical Latin sense ‘English person’ (compare sense 2):OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 118 Iudagum Romani and eac Angli gehalgedon on þisra tungla [sc. the planets] gemynde heora dagas. 1. A member of a Germanic-speaking tribe, originally from Angeln (a part of the region of northern Germany and southern Denmark now known as Schleswig), which invaded eastern Britain in the 5th cent. a.d., settling the region north of the Thames and ultimately founding the kingdoms of Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria. Usually in plural with the.The use of the term was probably influenced by Bede's account in the Historia Ecclesiastica (see discussion at English adj. and n.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [noun] > Angles Anglea1387 East Anglea1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 265 Þere come of þre þe strengest peple of Germania into Bretayne, Saxons, Angles, and Pictes [c1410 BL Add. Jutes]. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 14126 Þe Sessons acorded for no þing þat þe Anglis suld be þer kyng. 1589 R. Ashley Compar. Eng. & Spanish Nation 8 Witigerne king of great Britaine, desirous to repulse the Picts and Scots, called to his ayd the Angles or English, who dwelt then betweene the Vites [i.e. Jutes] and Saxons. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 111 The Saxons..and..two other Tribes,..Jutes and Angles. 1707 L. Echard Hist. Eng. i. 46 The fifth Kingdom was that of Northumberland, which consisted of Angles. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 116 The Angles, from whom the majority of the English derive their blood, and the whole their name. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. 24 North of the Thames lay the three great Kingdoms of the Angles. 1928 Amer. Hist. Rev. 33 680 Some forty years later the Angles were finding their way across the watershed and Saxon domination in the Severn valley came to an end. 1956 E. S. Duckett Alfred the Great i. 2 From what is now Lincolnshire to the Middle and the East Anglians, to the border peoples of Cheshire, Shropshire, and Hereford,..to the Angles of Kent. 2004 Church Times 11 June 23/1 Our villages—Ingleby, Irby, Saxton, Scotforth, Swaffham, Walmer and Wigston Magna—are named after the Angles, Irish, Saxons, Scots, Swabians, Welsh and Vikings who once lived in them. 2. A member of the English-speaking people inhabiting England before the Norman Conquest; = Anglo-Saxon n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] EngleeOE EnglishOE English-Saxona1387 Anglea1398 Southron1488 England1569 Anglo-Saxon1602 John Bull1748 Johnny Bull?1762 Southronya1795 Bull1825 Englishry1856 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cxxi. 797 Pictis, Angles, and Scottes sayled þider in oolde tyme, and wonede þere. 1533 Fabyans Cronycle (new ed.) I. vi. clxxi. f. xcix^v/1 Some of them occupyed the towne of Chepynham and the countrey therunto adioynynge, and chasyd y^e Angles, or made them as subiectes to y^e Danys. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. 81 Lumigius..aduanced to the Bishoprick of Creditune, by his grace with Canutus King of the Angles. 1659 T. Palmer Little View of Old World 107 In the time of the Saxons, the Inhabitants of this Land were called Angles or Anglishmen, and now English-men, and the Brittains Welch-men. 1675 W. Collins Appendix 33 in Missa Triumphans S. Austin the monk, and his forty blessed companions, were the first that brought the light of the Gospel from Rome to the Angles, or english men. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 17 ‘They are English, Angles!’ the slave-dealers answered. 1994 Speculum 69 1 The anonymous Life of Gregory the Great is the first source to record how Gregory..saw barbarians in Rome, and on being told that they were Angles said, ‘Angels of God’. 3. In plural. Rhetorically: the English; Englishmen. rare.Recorded earliest in Saxon Angles at Saxon adj. 1a. ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 63 Ryme is a borrowed word from the Greeks by the Latines and French, from them by vs Saxon angles. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV xxxviii. 134 All foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence Of pantomime. 1989 Times (Nexis) 10 June It may..be that the whole idea of a mission civilisatrice..inevitably suggests distasteful batrachian doings south of Calais, and is thus profoundly antipathetic to us Angles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). anglen.⁴ Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: angle v.² Etymology: < angle v.² colloquial. rare. An act of angling. (In quot. figurative: cf. angle v.² 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > soliciting or eliciting something > act of angle1874 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. i. 5 She forgot for a moment her thoughtless angle on that day in February. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). anglev.¹ Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: angle n.² Etymology: < angle n.² 1. Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase indicating direction. a. transitive. To arrange or orient (two or more things) so that they meet at an (oblique) angle; to place, set, or hold at an angle; (later also) to strike or drive (a ball, etc.) at an angle.rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > make oblique in direction anglea1398 oblique?a1425 the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > cause to incline incline?a1425 decline1578 lean1683 slant1805 rake1842 angle1953 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1372 Þilke bemes [L. radii] beþ y-angled in þe myddel of þe blak of þe yhe. And by þe angle of þat pirame þe sight is y schape, as þe auctor of Perspectiue seiþ. 1831 A. Ure Dict. Chem. (ed. 4) 543/2 There are usually two blast-holes or tuyeres,..placed on opposite sides, but so angled that the streams [of air] do not impinge on each other. 1848 T. Hall Rowland Bradshaw xiii. 80 Rowland..so angled the mirror that he could not only see the whole of the huge frill, but..that part of his body which was above the well starched collar. 1872 Harper's Mag. Oct. 781/2 The more I ‘angled’ the paddle and sculled, the worse it was. 1920 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 She attracted the returns to her by cleverly angling the ball. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xxv. 222 Bony had walked like a white man, angling his feet at twenty-five minutes to five. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) ii. 28 Alice ran ahead of me, and I angled the torch anxiously to light her way. b. intransitive. To turn or move at an angle, diagonally, or obliquely; to lie or be aligned in an oblique direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] lean1398 embelif1413 incline1553 cast1599 shelve1644 descend1675 slant1698 angle1741 cant1794 squint1799 oblique1814 the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > incline in a direction > obliquely wryc1374 slant1698 angle1835 to train off1891 1741 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1885) XII. 274 They have Computed the Charge of fixing Piers..to be Set Angling cross the Channel. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 602 The admiral..kept lasking away, angling from the enemy. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 39 The circuitous route you are obliged to take—angling off at an infinite variety of points. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 258 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV About half the saplings may be laid along outside one stake, then inside of the next, and thence angling across to the other row. 1881 M. Reid Free Lances II. xxxii. 116 [The road] angles abruptly to the right. 1897 Times 5 Feb. 14/5 The Majestic..broke her starboard quarter rope, which caused her to angle across the entrance and to become jammed. 1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born i. 4 His body angled forward so that his chin was resting on the back of the seat in front of him. 1996 J. Doran Red Doran 37 Cochrane's Row angled off from Duke Street down to Lane's coal yard. c. intransitive. To move in an angular manner; to follow a sharply winding course; to wind, twist. Also transitive (reflexive) in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (reflexive)] > move in winding course winda1400 twist1635 zigzag1821 angle1863 1863 W. H. Goode Outposts of Zion ii. xvii. 381 Thence angling across the country, we..entered the Lane road. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xx. 198 The road angles itself up the precipitous hillside. 1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 923/2 He..once more alters his direction, and so twists off, ‘angling’ across the meadow. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xx. 177 She wondered why he didn't walk direct to the..boulders, why he angled this way and that. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples vi. 108 The tree line angles irregularly across southern Keewatin from southeast to northwest. 2006 Fresh Air (Nexis) 1 May They had scouted out the landing site, which was just a patch of empty desert with a kind of a dirt road angling through it. †2. intransitive. To run into a corner. Also transitive: to drive into a corner (literal and figurative). Obsolete.In quot. 1575¹ perhaps in perfect tense formed with to be. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > action of game > [verb (intransitive)] to stand, be (abide obs.) at bayc1314 to steal awayc1369 stalla1425 starta1425 rusec1425 beatc1470 lodgec1470 trason1486 rouse1532 angle1575 bolt1575 to take squat1583 baya1657 watch1677 fall1697 tree1699 to go away1755 to sink the wind1776 to get up1787 to go to ground1797 lie1797 to stand up1891 fly1897 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 193 The uermine is angled (whiche is to say, gone to the furdest parte of his chamber to stand at defence). 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 194 To make the uermine eyther start or angle. 1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 677 It may be you will turne about, when you see your selfe thus angled. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 139 The angry Beast to his best chamber flies, And (angled there) sits grimly inter-gerning. †3. intransitive. To obtain an angle, based on the flight path of a bee, by which to locate a beehive. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1848 J. F. Cooper Bee-hunter I. i. 21 I must ‘angle’ for them chaps... Many a man who can ‘line’ a bee, can do nothing at an ‘angle’. a1879 W. Forsyth Neighbours iv, in Select. Writings (1882) 64 An American Bee-hunter angles for the wild bee's hive in a forest. 4. transitive. Esp. in journalism: to present (a story, description, subject of inquiry, etc.) so as to reflect a particular viewpoint, address a particular readership, etc. Cf. angle n.² 9b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > view in particular way [verb (transitive)] > present in particular way skew1872 slant1939 angle1944 spin1988 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell (story, etc.) from particular point of view angle1944 dimensionalize1973 1937 Harper's Mag. Dec. 54/2 The good communist editor to-day turns a news story..over to his copy-writer and says: ‘Class-angle that, Jim.’] 1944 Times Record (Troy, N.Y.) 17 Feb. 14/7 His Communists would have angled the story to convey the idea that here was an outrageous brawl. 1951 M. Dickens My Turn to make Tea ii. 13 You..almost never see the proprietor, although you feel his presence, because you have to angle your writing his way. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 132 The leader columns are angled at the more intelligent portions of the population. 2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 9 June 22 Black Watch [sc. a radio drama] is angled from the point of view of young squaddies embroiled in the ‘war on terror’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). anglev.² Brit. /ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English– angle, 1500s anggle. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: angle n.¹ Etymology: < angle n.¹ Compare Middle Low German angeln , German angeln (end of the 14th cent. in early modern German). Compare angler n.², angling n.¹, angle-rod n. 1. a. intransitive. To fish with a hook and bait. Frequently with for (formerly also †to). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with hook anglec1450 c1450 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 15 (MED) Ye schall angle..for..the bleke..with a lynne of ii herys. c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 169 (MED) Ye know with wat baytys ye schall angle to euery maner freche watur fyche. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hvi The Samon is the moost stately ffyssh that ony man maye angle to in fresshe water. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 431/2 It is but a sory lyfe and an yuell to stand anglynge all day to catche a fewe fysshes. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 5 Let them not..angle for frogs in a cleare fountaine. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iv. i. 54 As I late was angling In the great Lake..From the far shore..I heard a voyce. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 52 The fish which we are to Angle for. View more context for this quotation 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. ii. 262 Always angle in black or dark-colour'd Cloaths. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 12 The line should always be leaded according to the rapidity, or quietness of the river you angle in. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxviii. 330 He would..listlessly angle in the placid waters. 1937 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 67 37 They go out to angle on the same day. 2006 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 1May 1 a Campers..take part in campfire sessions and dances, as well as taking to the water to swim and angle for fish. b. transitive. To fish in (a stream, etc.) in this manner. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > other methods of fishing angle1723 tail1872 electrofish1956 freeline1971 1723 A. Pennecuik Corydon & Cochrania 10 'Tis he that paints our fleecy Skirts with Gold, Wearied all Day with toiling at the Fold, Angling the Brooks. 1854 R. Knox Fish & Fishing i. ii. 27 I have angled the Tyne often at various points, and never saw one [sc. a parr]. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 610 Fishermen licensed either to angle or net parts of the piscary. 1938 E. Finch Wilfrid Scawen Blunt xvi. 358 They were the fields..where Blunt had spent so many happy days with his sister Alice angling the stream. 2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 June b1 He caught the bug when his grandfather, Demetrio, an avid fisherman who angled the canals of Lake Erie, gave him his tackle box. c. transitive. To (seek to) catch (a fish) by angling. ΚΠ a1815 A. Graham Observ. Hudson's Bay (modernized text) iv, in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1969) 27 119 The natives angle great numbers in winter. 1894 Tyrone (Pa.) Herald 17 May Johnny Horner angled the fish the other day. 1975 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 24 70 He then paddled his boat gently into the shoal to angle the fish. 1996 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 3 May c4 Yellow perch which have been angled from waters of Lake St. Francis. 2001 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 July b1 Like most folks that know a good thing, Franklin angled fish in his youth. 2. figurative. †a. transitive. To ensnare, entrap, beguile; to obtain by a contrivance or stratagem; to lure, tempt (also with on). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > elicit or obtain by cunning angle1538 weasel1975 1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Rem facere Gette the hense, thou cannest noo skylle to angle menne. 1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia ii. xv. f. 169^v If he spake curteously, he angled the peoples harts. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. xlvi. 215 To angle the beneuolence, And catch the loue of men, with curtesies. 1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 178 Fortune in the beginning of this enterprise flatterd him to a continuance of the warre with prosperous successe, intending by that glorious baite onely to angle him to destruction. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 38 You have Angled me on with much pleasure to the thatcht House. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 88 Shooes, which..Angled for Charity that past along. ?1720 Entertainer sig. a6 ^v (heading) Feigned Sanctity the Devil's chief Bait to angle Souls with. 1801 T. Moore Poet. Wks. Late Thomas Little 74 Chloe, bewitchingly simple, Who angles the heart without knowing her lure. b. intransitive. To seek to ensnare or acquire a person or thing; (in later use esp.) to seek to elicit a particular reaction, response, opinion, etc., as by indirectly prompting someone to offer it; to ‘fish’. Usually with for.In quot. a1568 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > use guile to elicit or obtain something anglea1568 fish1570 a1568 R. Ascham Rep. & Disc. Affaires Germany (?1570) f. 3 With this hoke bayted with money the bayte of all mischief, the French kyng hath not ceased, to angle at as many harts in Italy and Germany as he knew any matter of vnkyndnes to bee ministred vnto, by the Emperour. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie i. iii. 14/2 When they angle for their benefices, doe they consider that Gods calling of them is with condition, that they shall yeeld an account of the soules that are committed to them? 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet Pref. 3 I doo but yet angle with a silken flye, to see whether Martins will nibble. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 215 She..did angle for mee, Madding my eagernesse with her restraint. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer ii. i. 25 'Tis such a pleasure, to angle for fair-faced Fools! 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 17 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1543 Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. 1799 R. Southey Love Elegies II. iii. 125 The subtile line Wherewith the urchin angled for my Heart. 1867 B. Disraeli in Morning Star 12 Feb. We are not angling for a policy; we have distinct principles which will guide us. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) II. vii. 734 They looked at each other, pantomimed despair, angled for Hans Castorp's glance; but he refused to be drawn. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top iv. 35 If you're hungry and someone's preparing a good meal, you'll naturally angle for an invitation. 2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 284/1 More recently the term has transmogrified into a despicable phraseological device employed by honkies angling for hipster credibility. c. intransitive. To seek by contrivance to do something; to scheme. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)] subtlec1300 conspire1393 compass1430 malign?a1439 contrivec1440 machine?c1450 forthink1494 pretenda1500 practise1537 pack1568 brigue1580 machinate1602 manage1603 plot1607 tamper1607 faction1609 collogue1646 intriguea1714 to lay a scheme1826 scheme1842 angle1892 wheel and deal1961 1892 H. Labouchere Let. 17 Sept. in A. L. Thorold Life H. Labouchere (1913) 419 I suspect that our revered leader is angling to be able to get south in January and possibly February. 1912 in E. S. Railton General Booth xi. 100 He spent no time in angling to get into sympathetic touch with them. 1955 Times 2 June 7/2 For some years now the Soviet Union has been angling to detach Japan from the western Powers. 1979 Washington Post 6 July c5/2 Clarence Gilmore..says Williams is angling to match him with Maurice Hope for the world title. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 66/2 Chelsea is angling to become the next go-to neighborhood for interiors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹eOEn.²a1325n.³a1387n.⁴1874v.¹a1398v.²c1450
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