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trianglen.

Brit. /ˈtrʌɪaŋɡl/, /ˈtrʌɪəŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈtraɪˌæŋɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Also Middle English triangyl, tryangyl, Middle English–1600s tryangle, 1500s triangil, tryanghel, 1500s–1600s triangill; Middle English–1500s treangle, 1500s treeangle, treangell.
Etymology: < French triangle (13th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), or < its source, Latin triangulum , noun neuter < triangulus adjective, three-cornered, < tri- , tri- comb. form + angulus angle n.1 N.E.D. (1914) gives the pronunciation as (trəi·æŋg'l, trəiˌæ·ŋg'l) /ˈtraɪæŋɡ(ə)l/, /traɪˈæŋɡ(ə)l/.
1.
a. Geometry, etc. A figure (usually, a plane rectilineal figure) having three angles and three sides.In modern geometry a triangle is regarded as a system of three points not collinear, together with the three straight lines joining them; or as a system of three straight lines each intersecting the two others at different points. circular triangle, a plane triangle formed by three intersecting circular arcs. spherical triangle, a triangle formed by three arcs upon the surface of a sphere: see spherical adj. and n. triangle of forces, the theorem in statics that if three forces in one plane, acting at one point, be in equilibrium, three straight lines in that plane parallel to their directions will form a triangle whose sides are proportional to their magnitudes.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > triangle
triangle1398
triquetra1586
trigon1600
trilateral1766
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > triangle
triangle1398
trigon1600
triquetra1706
trilateral1766
trilineal1807
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xvii. cviii, Some [nuts] ben distinguid in þe cop as it were with þe schap of a triangle [L. per formam trianguli].
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 258 Þe nose is maad of .ij. boones in þe maner of a triangle in þis manner. ∆∆.
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. A triangle is nothinge els to say, but a figure of three corners.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclj Betwyxt Caleis, Arde and Grauelyn, Townes..set as it were a treangle.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 25 In every triangle, two sides which soever be taken are greater then the side remaining. View more context for this quotation
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 3 The figure of the imperial city [Constantinople] may be represented under that of an unequal triangle.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 145 A series of theorems..relating to the inscribed pentagon, quadrangle, and triangle..a series of correlative theorems relating to the circumscribed pentagon, quadrilateral, and triangle.
b. A figure of this form used symbolically (e.g. an equilateral triangle as a symbol of the Trinity), or in magic or necromancy. In Heraldry a figure of this form as a bearing; in triangle, said of three or more bearings arranged in the form of a triangle.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > sign or symbol used in
characta1393
character1449
circle1529
triangle1584
post-writing1621
magic circle1654
sigil1659
hag track1836
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [phrase] > manner or type of charge
in point1562
in orle1572
in pale1572
in bend1598
in lozengea1695
in triangle1766
in pile1864
society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing the Trinity
trinity1496
triangle1810
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > triangle
trianglec1828
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. ii. 387 He is a lier, except he be brought into a triangle, and there he speaketh diuinelie.
1766 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elem. Heraldry (1787) 175 Azure, three Trouts fretty in Triangle Argent.
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xix. 209 The sacred Triangle..Holding the Emblem which no tongue may tell.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Triangle, this sometimes occurs as a bearing in coat-armour. See Cross of Triangles, or twelve triangles in cross.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. §5. 311 A nail in every point thereof, in triangle.
1894 Parker's Gloss. Heraldry (at cited word) Charges may be described as fretted in triangle, e.g. in the arms of Troutbeck (under Salmon)... The insignia of the Isle of Man are sometimes blazoned as flexed in triangle.
c. figurative. A group or set of three, a triad. Esp. a love-relationship in which one member of a married couple is involved with a third party; frequently as eternal triangle.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun]
leashc1330
ternarya1464
trinity1542
three?1544
triad1546
trine1554
triplicity1585
ternion1587
pair royal1592
trinary1596
trias1610
gleek1615
triangle1621
triple1653
triumvirate1655
prial1776
trio1777
trefoil1826
trinomy1838
Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > relationship where adultery exists
eternal triangle1919
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard xv. 129 In this sacred triangle is included the renouncing of our selues.
1659 N. Whiting (title) Old Jacob's altar, newly repaired; or, the saints triangle of dangers, deliverances, and duties.
1907 Daily Chron. 5 Dec. 3/4 Mrs. Dudeney's novel..deals with the eternal triangle, which, in this case, consists of two men and one woman.
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 358 The couples had rearranged themselves or were re-crystallizing in fresh triangles.
1919 G. B. Shaw in F. Harris Contemp. Portraits 2nd Ser. 332 For the modern drama, with its eternal triangle and so forth, he claims nothing, but that it proves adultery to be the dullest of subjects.
1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 162 He was much more substantial than in the days of our romantic triangle.
1955 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) vi. 48 The details of the story, the way the husband and wife first met..the other woman in the triangle.
1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iv. 39 Most examples of the ‘eternal triangle’ are produced by boredom and primitive misconduct.
1979 J. Philips Why Murder? (1980) ii. ii. 90 A husband, a wife, a lover—the classic triangle.
d. North Atlantic Triangle: see North Atlantic n. 3.
2.
a.
(a) Something having the form of a triangle; any three-cornered body, object, or space.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > triangle > triangular object or formation
pyramid1589
triangle1615
heater1797
1615 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Memorials of Mortalitie in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall 152 Th' Earth cannot fill thy hearts vnequal Angles; Thy Hearts a Triangle, the Earth's a Round.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) V. l. 2 The Arabian peninsula may be conceived as a triangle of spacious but irregular dimensions.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 120 The present fort, which is a triangle, has two bastions.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 53 In what wig and black triangle dost thou walk abroad?
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia i. 13 The Servians..in the first half of the 14th century..formed the strongest power of the Illyrian triangle.
1895 R. W. Chambers Demoiselle D'Ys in King in Yellow i A long wavering triangle of water-fowl drifted southward over our heads.
(b) the Devil's Triangle: a name given to an area of sea between Bermuda and Florida credited with a high number of unexplained disappearances of boats and aircraft; = Bermuda Triangle n.; hence used allusively; the golden triangle, an area at the meeting-point of Burma (Myanmar), Laos, and Thailand, where much opium is grown.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun]
the High Levant1497
Far East1852
Farther East1876
Near North1935
the golden triangle1973
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > vanishing or disappearing > place credited with disappearances
black hole1941
Bermuda Triangle1964
the Devil's Triangle1973
1973 Bangkok Post 22 Apr. 1 Both the opium and the morphine base almost certainly originated in the so-called ‘golden triangle’ where the opium poppy grows in abundance.
1975 Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 1976 161 The Atlantic region known as the Bermuda, or Devil's, Triangle.
1978 Times 23 Jan. 2/6 The increasing importance of South-East Asia's ‘golden triangle’ as a source of narcotics.
1983 Times 12 Feb. 4/8 Drugs from the Golden Triangle were in heavy demand in Europe before 1979.
(c) the wet triangle [= German nasses dreieck] the German part of the North Sea.
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1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 84 The wet triangle.
b. *natural objects. Palmistry. A triangular figure made by three of the lines of the hand: see quot. 1653.
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c1460 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 86 A tryangyl that ys off one length, evyn on alle partys..betokynnyth bodyly strengh and bold off herte.
c1460 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 86 The fyrste lyne ys the fyrst parte off the tryangyl, and yt gothe aboute the hylle of the thombe.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 58 This Triangle..is made in the hand, by..three Lines, viz. that of Life, the middle natural Line, and that of the Head.
c. Astronomy. (With capital initial.) The constellation Triangulum, north of Aries, characterized by three stars in the positions of the angular points of an isosceles triangle.Also, Triangulum minus, the Lesser Triangle, a constellation immediately south of this, introduced by Hevelius in 1690, but now disused; Triangulum australe, the Southern Triangle, a modern constellation near the South Pole.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Triangulum
triangle1556
delta1638
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 265 By hir [Andromeda's] lefte foot is ther a small constellation..commonly called the Triangle.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 334 The Altar and the Southern Triangle, which lie along the Milky Way in looking towards the pole.
d. Anatomy. Applied, with defining words, to the triangular areas bounded by certain muscles: as triangles of the neck, anterior triangle (subdivided into the submaxillary triangle and the superior triangle and inferior carotid triangles) and posterior triangle (subdivided into the occipital triangle and subclavian triangles); triangle of Petit, above the crest of the ilium; Scarpa's triangle, in the upper part of the thigh.
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1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 147 The inferior triangle of the popliteal space is bounded on each side by the heads of the gastrocnemius.
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 41 I removed all the enlarged glands in front of the sterno-mastoid, and thus cleared the anterior triangle of the neck.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 418 [An abscess] may open superficially in the loin through the triangle of Petit.
e. Entomology. A triangular marking or space on an insect's wing.
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1832 [see triangle-marked adj. at Compounds 1c].
1891 Cent. Dict. Triangle... In entom. a large three-sided cell found in the wings of many dragonflies..often called the discoidal triangle, to distinguish it from the internal triangle, which adjoins it on the inner side, and the anal triangle, which lies close to the anal border of the wing.
f. A species of box-fish of triangular form, as Ostracion trigonum.
** artificial objects.
g. A small ornament or piece of jewellery of a triangular form.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]
ringOE
beec1009
languet1378
Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406
tablet?a1425
fetterlock1463
serpent-tongue1488
triangle1529
flory1530
gorget1570
medal1578
tablet jewel1599
sprig1602
bracelet1624
medallion1658
croisette1688
torques1693
scarabaeus1775
crosslet1802
torque1834
teardrop1870
scarab1878
scaraboid1879
scarabaeoid1887
squash blossom1923
clip1937
1529 Will of Eell Leigh (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/23) f. 82 My corsse gurdell wt the Treeangle of flowres of silver and golde.
1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 48 A demysent [girdle] with..a pendantte a treangell of selver and gelt.
1538 Will of William Mores (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/22) f. 318v A triangill of siluer and gilte.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 120 This Iewell..a triangle of three rich diamonds, each angle..enriched with a great pearle.
h. Christian Church. A stand or frame on which copes were hung up. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > other furniture > [noun] > cope-stand
triangle1532
1532 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1872) 8 124 Item a treangle for copys, a presse [Editor's Note, a crane or stand for hanging copes].
1538 Inventories Relig. Houses in Archaeologia (1871) 43 226 ij chestes and the tryangle for the same ornaments to be hengyd.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. vi. 43 [A doubtful statement].
i. (More fully triangle virginal), an early kind of keyboard stringed instrument. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > virginals
virginal1530
a pair of virginals1542
virginal1566
triangle1663
virginet?c1680
muselar1965
1661 S. Pepys Diary 14 June (1970) II. 121 I sent to my house, by my Lord's order, his shipp and Triangle virginall.]
1663 S. Pepys Diary 18 Mar. (1971) IV. 79 This day, my Tryangle (which was put in tune yesterday) did please me very well.
j. A musical instrument of percussion, consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangular form, but open at one corner; it is struck with a small straight steel rod. Also transferred = triangler n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > triangle
triangle1786
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Triangle, a steel instrument so called from its consisting of three bars of polished steel, so united at their ends as to produce a triangular frame.
1811 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 21 We play upon the..guitar, triangle, and castagnettes.
1878 F. Hueffer in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 28/1 He is said to have accepted the appointment of supernumerary triangle at the Gymnase.
1913 Times 14 May 8/5 The only percussion (even the usual drums are excluded) consists of triangle and cymbals.
k. Name for a kind of large tripod composed of three poles or spars joined at the top, bearing a pulley for hoisting heavy weights, or for weighing: see also quot. 1867.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > shear-legs or gin
gin1398
lading gin1497
raising gin1497
shearsa1625
Jack1686
triangle1691
crab1739
shear-legs1860
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 63 If the Tree be too ponderous to be lifted perpendicular by the Hand alone, by applying a Triangle and Pully..draw out the Tree.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 187 Set up three Poles (like unto a Triangle wherewith they usually weigh heavy Ware) spreading at the Bottom.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Triangle,..a machine formed by spars for lifting weights, water-casks, &c. Also, a stage hung round a mast, to scrape, paint, or grease it.
1873 5th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland 26 in Parl. Papers (C. 760) XXXV. ii. 335 The Records were lowered through the aperture in the centre of the floor by means of a rope, supported by a triangle raised over the opening.
l. Military. (Usually plural) A tripod, originally formed of three halberds stuck in the ground and joined at the top, to which soldiers were formerly bound to be flogged; a structure resembling this.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod
pillara1475
rogue stob1550
post1555
whipping-post1600
whipping-stock1615
fork1619
whipstock1619
flogging-stake1785
flogging-block1827
triangle1847
whipping-pole1862
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Halbert Soldiers of the infantry, when flogged, being commonly tied to three halberts, set up in a triangle, with a fourth fastened across them.]
1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 290/1 Triangles, a wooden instrument consisting of three poles so fastened at top that they may spread at bottom in a triangular form... An iron bar, breast high, goes across one side of the triangle. The triangles were used in some regiments for..inflicting military punishments.
1871 G. A. Lawrence Anteros (1872) i. 11 He was unsparing both of his tongue and of the lash—the triangles were an honoured institution in those days.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 29 Already, at Molong [Australia], there is one military-post and a triangles, and at Wellington Valley there is another military-post and another triangles.
m. Pottery. A triangular piece of baked ware, with points projecting from the angles, placed between pieces of biscuit ware to prevent their adhering to each other when baking.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2626/2 Triangle,..4. (Pottery.) A small piece of pottery, placed between pieces of biscuit ware in the seggar, to prevent the adherence of the pieces when fired.
n. Angling. A set of three hooks fastened together so that their barbs are at the angular points of a triangle.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > hooks fastened together
snap-hook1688
snapper1688
springer1688
jigger1815
snap1839
dree-draw1850
stroke-haul1850
triangle1867
gang1879
black doctor1883
murderer1883
trap-hook1883
treble hook1895
treble1897
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 97 I had used a single set of small brazed triangles.
1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 145 The flying triangles are to blame. It is not often that one loses a fish hooked on the tail triangle.
o. A drawing-instrument in the form of a right-angled triangle of wood, vulcanite, etc.; a set square.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments > triangular
set square1854
triangle1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2626/2 Triangle,.. 2. (Drafting.) A three-cornered straight-edge, used..for drawing parallel, perpendicular, or diagonal lines. It has one right angle, the two others being each of 45°.., or one of 30° and the other of 60°.
p. A triangular warning sign placed on the road to mark the presence of a broken-down vehicle or vehicles.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > sign warning of broken-down vehicle
triangle1969
1969 B. Weil Dossier IX ii. 8 There's your red break~down triangle... They're obligatory in France.
1971 H. Pacy Road Accidents i. 33 Utilize the special warning triangles larger trucks carry for this purpose.
1977 ‘J. Fraser’ Hearts Ease in Death ii. 12 Superintendent Bill Aveyard braked his car when he saw the flashing torches and warning triangles at the side of the road.
3. Collectors' name for certain moths. See also Compounds 2.
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 55 The Triangle (Gr[aphiphora] Triangulum, Ochsenheimer) appears the end of July.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 164 The Triangle (P[seudotamia] trigonana, Stephens). Near London.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1c.)
triangle drama n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People i. 22 Just another triangle drama.
1961 Times 13 May 5/2 In an all too successful attempt to turn Shakespeare's tragedy into a conventional triangle-drama, Rossini's librettist, Berio, built up Rodrigo.
b. (In sense 2j.)
triangle-player n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > triangle-player
triangler1840
triangle-player1906
1906 J. Joyce Let. 4 Oct. (1966) II. 170 AE ought now to write some..dreamy thing about a..Triangle-player.
1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 24 Arnold dropped an occasional word in, like the triangle player at the Philharmonic.
c.
triangle-marked adj.
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 228 The Triangle-marked Purple (G[racillaria] purpurea, Haworth). Wings..purple, with a three-cornered central halfband... The Triangle-marked Red (G. stigmatella, Stephens)... The Triangle Marked Buff (G. ochracea, Haworth).
C2.
triangle inequality n. Mathematics the statement that the modulus of the sum of two quantities is less than or equal to the sum of their moduli; (so called from the analogy with the distances between the vertices of a triangle).
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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > inequality
inequation1855
inequality1875
Minkowski inequality1932
triangle inequality1941
Cauchy–Schwarz inequality1956
ultrametric inequality1967
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vii. 183 In any Euclidian vector space, length has the following properties:..|ξ + η| ≦ |ξ| + |η| (the triangle inequality).
1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xlvi. 1083 Schwarz's inequality and the triangle inequality are proved for the norm.
triangle moth n. Limacodes asellus.
triangle-ways adv. rare = trianglewise adv.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > triangle
triangle1474
trianglewise?1523
three-corneredwise1580
triangularly1604
triangle-ways1689
triangular-wise1707
three-corner-ways1748
three-corner-wise1862
1689 London Gaz. No. 2485/4 16 silver Trencher-Plates..marked with a Cypher triangle-ways.

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Snooker, etc. The triangular wooden frame used in setting up the balls before the start of play. Cf. frame n. 10.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > wooden frame used for setting up balls
triangle1890
rack1896
1890 C. C. Moore Games of Pool xii. 79 These balls are placed in the form of a triangle upon the table, as in Pyramids, a wooden frame or ‘triangle’ being employed to save trouble and insure correctness.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1025/2 Billiard accessories... Triangle..each 4/6.
1954 Billiards & Snooker (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 23 A triangular wooden frame, the ‘triangle’, enables the reds to be set up as shown.
1983 Harrods Mag. Christmas 168 Snooker..tables..complete with two cues, balls, triangle, chalk and scoreboard.
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triangleadj.

Etymology: < Latin triangulus, < tri- comb. form + angulus corner.
Obsolete.
Having three angles; three-cornered, triangular. Also quasi-adv. In the form of a triangle, triangularly.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > triangular
three-corneredc1400
three-squaredc1400
three-squarec1450
triangle1474
triangled1486
triangular?1541
three-corner1548
trilater1570
trigonal1571
three-corned1584
three-sided1601
triangulated1610
triangulate1611
triform1621
triangulary1622
triquetrous1658
trilateral1660
triagonal1665
trigonic1788
cocked hat1846
heater-shaped1847
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > triangle
triangle1474
trianglewise?1523
three-corneredwise1580
triangularly1604
triangle-ways1689
triangular-wise1707
three-corner-ways1748
three-corner-wise1862
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > triangular
triangle1474
triangled1486
triangular?1541
trigonal1570
trilater1570
triangulated1610
triangulate1611
triform1621
triangulary1622
triquetrous1658
trilateral1660
trilineal1715
trilinear1715
trigonic1788
trigonate1815
triagonal1831
1661 S. Pepys Diary 14 June (1970) II. 121 I sent to my house, by my Lord's order, his shipp and Triangle virginall.]
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 159 In one of the corners..was made a toure treangle as a shelde.
1525 Anothomia in tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Handy Warke Surg. sig. Bij/1 The bony part [of the nose] hath .ij. tryangle bonis.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccjv Three hilles, not in equal distaunce,..but liyng in maner although not fully triangle.
1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) A j Gutta, are drops sometime round, sometime in Triangle fashion.
1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 444 Triangle Sparus [a fish]. Mentioned by Cepede from Commerson: native of the Indian seas.
in combination.1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §71 A Key perfectly square,..no heavier then the triangle-scrued Key.1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §69 A little triangle scrued Key.
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trianglev.

Etymology: < triangle n.
rare.
1. intransitive. ? To lie or extend in the form of a triangle. Obsolete.
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1595 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 129 The said wmquhill Mr Androis yard dyk ascendis south eist..triangling throw an[d] athort the hedis of the yardis of the said vmquhill Badie.
2. transitive. To flog at the triangles (triangle n. 2l).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat
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beatc1000
to lay on?c1225
chastise1362
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dressc1405
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coil1530
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trounce1568
fight1570
course1585
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tabor1624
lambaste1637
feak1652
flog1676
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slipper1682
liquora1689
curry-comb1708
whack1721
rump1735
screenge1787
whale1790
lather1797
tat1819
tease1819
larrup1823
warm1824
haze1825
to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839
flake1841
swish1856
hide1875
triangle1879
to give (a person or thing) gyp1887
soak1892
to loosen (a person's) hide1902
1879 L. Wingfield My Lords of Strogue III. iv. 110 His henchman had been well triangled..to extort evidence against his master.
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