Definitions for Angle

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Angle an·gle

Spelling: [ang-guh l]

IPA: /ˈæŋ gəl/

Angle is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Angle (aegln).

Definitions for Angle

noun

1. Geometry. the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line. the figure so formed. the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or in degrees, minutes, and seconds, as in 12° 10prime; 30″, which is read as 12 degrees, 10 minutes, and 30 seconds.
2. an angular projection; a projecting corner:
3. a viewpoint; standpoint:
4. Journalism. slant (def 11). the point of view from which copy is written, especially when the copy is intended to interest a particular audience:
5. one aspect of an event, problem, subject, etc.:
6. Movies, Photography. angle shot.
7. Informal. a secret motive:
8. Astrology. any of the four interceptions of the equatorial circle by the two basic axes, the horizon and the meridian: commonly identified by the compass directions.
9. angle iron (def 2).
10. Archaic. a fishhook or fishing tackle.
11. a member of a West Germanic people that migrated from Sleswick to Britain in the 5th century a.d. and founded the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria. As early as the 6th century their name was extended to all the Germanic inhabitants of Britain.

Idioms

1. play the angles, Slang. to use every available means to reach one's goal:

verb (used with object)

1. to move or bend in an angle.
2. to set, fix, direct, or adjust at an angle:
3. Journalism. to write or edit in such a way as to appeal to a particular audience; slant:

verb (used without object)

1. to turn sharply in a different direction:
2. to move or go in angles or at an angle:
3. to fish with hook and line.
4. to attempt to get something by sly or artful means; fish:

Origin of Angle

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin angulus, of unclear orig.

Examples for Angle

We see the protoplanetary disk around it at an angle, but nearly “face-on.”

The Qataris famously play every angle, cutting deals, for instance, with the Israelis as well as the Iranians.

Now a young-looking 62, Stillman has always operated at an angle to the movie business.

He had been lightly hooked on the angle of the right jaw, and the hook had not wearied him.

And I thought the angle with this project, which is fiction, was interesting.

He has lived so long in the Quarter he looks at life from the Parisian angle.

At an angle calculated to intercept the caravan, Kingozi set off down the hill.

So that was the angle that I think this movie had that made me want to jump into it.

He looked at me out of the angle of his eye to make sure that I was in earnest.

Just what this angle of ascension may be is difficult to determine.