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| cor·ner [ káwrnər ] |
noun (plural cor·ners) |
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1. meeting of lines or surfaces: the angle formed where two or more lines or surfaces meet
  the four corners of a square
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2. area enclosed by converging lines: the area enclosed where two lines or surfaces meet
the corner of the room
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3. projecting part of something: a projecting angular part of something
She bumped her knee on the corner of the table.
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4. place where two roads meet: the place where two roads or streets meet
the store on the corner
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5. difficult situation: a difficult or embarrassing position, especially one from which there is no easy way of escape
got himself into a corner about his previous statements
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6. quiet place: a secluded, peaceful, or secret place
Let's find a quiet corner where we can sit and talk.
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7. remote place: an area or place, especially one that is remote
Explorers then voyaged to every corner of the world.
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8. object put over corner: an object made to fit over a corner of something, especially to protect it
a diary with metal corners
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9. commerce control of market: a monopoly of a particular commodity acquired in order to control its market price
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10. baseball part of baseball strike zone: in baseball, a location on either edge of home plate, forming part of the strike zone
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11. sports part of playing field or surface: in various sports, part of the playing field or surface where two boundaries meet
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12. hockey football kick or shot from corner: in some sports, a free kick or shot from a corner of the field given to the attacking team when a defending player knocks the ball over the goal line
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13. boxing wrestling part of ring: in boxing and wrestling, any of the four parts of a ring where the ropes are attached to the posts, especially the two where the competitors rest between rounds
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adjective |
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1. located on corner: situated on a street corner
a corner store
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2. intended for corner: intended to be put in a corner
a corner cabinet
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3. situated at corner: at or in a corner of something
sat at a corner table
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verb (past and past participle cor·nered, present participle cor·ner·ing, 3rd person present singular cor·ners) |
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1. transitive verb force somebody into difficult position: to force a person or an animal into a position from which escape is difficult
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2. transitive verb put somebody or something in corner: to place somebody or something in a corner
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3. transitive verb provide something with corners: to give corners to something
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4. transitive verb commerce acquire monopoly within commercial market: to acquire a monopoly of a particular commodity and so be able to control its market price
an attempt to corner the soybean market
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5. intransitive verb turn corner: to drive around a corner
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refers to vehicles or their drivers
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6. transitive and intransitive verb hockey football take corner: in some sports, to take a free kick or hit from a corner of the field on the opponents' goal line
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| [13th century. < Anglo-Norman< Latin cornua, plural of cornu "horn, point"] |
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cut corners to do something in a quicker, cheaper, or less careful way than is desirable or wise
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in somebody's corner providing somebody with support
You can't lose with him in your corner.
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turn the corner to get past the worst part of a difficult or dangerous situation
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