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Slant
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angle
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Word definitions for angle in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to fish with a hook," mid-15c., from Old English angel (n.) "angle, hook, fishhook," related to anga "hook," from PIE *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (see angle (n.)). Compare Old English angul , Old Norse öngull , Old High German angul , German Angel "fishhook." ...
Usage examples of angle.
She toyed withBrinkerhoff, walking to the window and angling the readout for abetter view.
The guns of those ships, being disposed along the sides, were for the most part able to bear only upon an enemy abreast of them, with a small additional angle of train toward ahead or astern.
Five minutes later the Lackawanna, Captain Marchand, going at full speed, delivered her blow also at right angles on the port side, abreast the after end of the armored superstructure.
The two loops may be connected by an appending ridge provided that it does not abut at right angles between the shoulders of the loop formation.
No angle is present as the ending ridge does not abut upon the curving ridge which envelopes it.
The tented arch is formed by the angle made when the curving ridge above the dot abuts upon the ridge immediately under and to the left of the dot.
It must be free of any appendages abutting upon the outside of the recurve at a right angle.
For example, a loop with an appendage abutting upon its recurve between the shoulders and at right angles, as in illustration 56, will appear sometimes as in illustration 57 with the recurve totally destroyed.
When figure 188 is examined, it will be noticed that the recurve is spoiled by the appendage abutting upon it between the shoulders at a right angle, so it must also be classified with the tented arches.
An appendage abutting upon a loop at right angles between the shoulders is considered to spoil the loop, while an appendage which flows off smoothly is considered to leave the recurve intact.
The one on the left, however, has an appendage abutting upon the shoulders of its recurve at a right angle.
Points A, B, and X are merely bifurcations rather than an abutment of two ridges at an angle.
There are three loop formations, each one of which is spoiled by an appendage abutting upon its recurve between the shoulders at a right angle.
It cannot be classified as a whorl of the double loop type because the formation above the lower loop is too pointed and it also has an appendage abutting upon it at a right angle.
If examined closely the pattern will be seen to have an appendage abutting at a right angle between the shoulders of each possible recurve.