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Four-sided figure
Answer for the clue "Four-sided figure ", 9 letters:
rectangle
Alternative clues for the word rectangle
Word definitions for rectangle in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French rectangle (16c.) and directly from Late Latin rectangulum , from rect- , comb. form of Latin rectus "right" (see right (adj.1)) + Old French angle (see angle (n.)). Medieval Latin rectangulum meant "a triangle having a right angle." ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ Sandwich the two halves together with glaze, one on top of the other, to form a large rectangle . ▪ The first unit is centred on St Mary's church and consists of a large rectangle , aligned north-south, ...
Usage examples of rectangle.
Some of the bacteria were marked with a felt pen circles, and inside those one could indeed see some rectangles and geometrically perfect spheres that were interconnected by some strings and pipes.
The refrigerator threw out a rectangle of welcome light as Brushy Jim opened it.
A dim gray hint of morning in the rectangle of my window cannot pale the hypnogogic phantoms that dance in the dark corners of my room, mocking me for the stupid account I have written.
After a slight hesitation, the Normans came forward, led by Malet and Warenne, and each bent to take a few crumbs of earth and cast them into the black rectangles at their feet.
Even the wall behind us was mirrored, the door set flush in it as a hairline rectangle and barely visible, spring-latched to open at the slightest touch from either side.
Six multiphase antennae were unfolding from their sheaths around the middle of the cargo section, flat ash-gray rectangles measuring twenty meters down their long edge.
The solid rectangle of cloth covered her face from cheek to chin, falling below the collar of her overgown at its longest point.
As he gripped the sides of his bunk he saw Quinton peering down at him, with another figure, Sub-Lieutenant Southby, hovering in the rectangle of light from the passageway.
While they had idled back and forth in a narrow rectangle of open sea during the day, Ainslie had spoken with Quinton alone.
The patchwork of rectangles running the length of the corridor made the blanked-out feeling worse, there was no knowing what long-gone messages had once adorned the ratty cork board.
Drawing and redrawing the circles, triangles, rhomboids, pentagrams, rectangles, sine curves and twisted ovals of infinity, they smoothed them away once again, and began again.
The Dauntlesses nosed over, the rush of air increased and the air-speed indicators moved up as they slanted in toward the push-over point The pilots, leaning forward, concentrating on formation and the narrow yellow rectangle below, felt their planes shake and heard the windbroken hammering of the 30s as the gunners opened up.
A padded framework stood in the middle and provided a ladder-like affair leading from one end of the cylinder to the other, where a second blue rectangle appeared.
Astoria stood to one side as the blue colour spread swiftly over the gate rectangle.
For the paper patterns from which she snipped out regular rectangles and hexagons of cloth, the thrifty housewife often used up old love letters.