Angle Definition

ănggəl
angled, angles, angling
verb
angled, angles, angling
To move or turn (something) at an angle.
Angled the chair toward the window.
American Heritage
To move or bend at an angle or by means of angles.
Webster's New World
To fish with a hook and line.
Webster's New World
To try to get something by indirect or artful means.
Angle for a promotion.
American Heritage
To hit (a ball or puck, for example) at an angle.
American Heritage
noun
angles
A fishhook or fishing tackle.
American Heritage
The shape made by two straight lines meeting at a common point, the vertex, or by two planes meeting along an edge.
Webster's New World
The figure formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
The figure formed by two planes diverging from a common line.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
suffix

(geometry, of a two-dimensional shape) Having the specified number of internal angles.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Angle

Noun

Singular:
angle
Plural:
angles

Origin of Angle

  • From Middle English anglelen (“to fish”), from angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel, angul (“fishhook”), from Proto-Germanic *angulō, *angô (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ank-, *Hank- (“something bent, hook”). Cognate with West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English, from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus (“corner, remote area”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“corner, hirn”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Mostly derived from the toponym Angle, from *anguz "narrow, tight; tapering, angular", either indicating the "narrow" water (i.e. the Schlei estuary), or the "angular" shape of the peninsula.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English anglen from angel fishhook from Old English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin Anglī the Angles of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin angulus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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