Definitions for corners

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corners cor·ner

Spelling: [kawr-ner]

IPA: /ˈkɔr nər/

Corners is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in corners (cenorrs).

Definitions for corners

noun

1. the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
2. the space between two converging lines or surfaces near their intersection; angle:
3. a projecting angle, especially of a rectangular figure or object:
4. the point where two streets meet:
5. an end; margin; edge.
6. any narrow, secluded, or secret place.
7. an awkward or embarrassing position, especially one from which escape is impossible.
8. Finance. a monopolizing or a monopoly of the available supply of a stock or commodity to a point permitting control of price (applied only when monopoly price is exacted).
9. region; part; quarter:
10. Surveying. the point of intersection of the section lines of a land survey, often marked by a monument or some object, as a pipe that is set or driven into the ground. Compare section (def 5). a stake, tree, or rock marking the intersection of property lines.
11. a piece to protect the corner of anything.
12. Baseball. any point on the line forming the left or right boundary of home plate: the area formed by the intersection of the foul line and the outfield fence.
13. Boxing. the immediate area formed by any of the four angles in the ring. one of the two assigned corners where a boxer rests between rounds and behind which the handlers sit during a fight.
14. Soccer. corner kick.

Idioms

1. cut corners, to use a shorter route. to reduce costs or care in execution:
2. rough corners, rude, boorish, or unsophisticated characteristics, manners, or the like:
3. the four corners of the earth, the most distant or remote regions:
4. turn the corner, to pass through a crisis safely:

adjective

1. situated on or at a corner where two streets meet:
2. made to fit or be used in a corner:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with corners.
2. to place in or drive into a corner.
3. to force into an awkward or difficult position or one from which escape is impossible:
4. to gain control of (a stock, commodity, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to meet in or be situated on or at a corner.
2. to form a corner in a stock or commodity.
3. (of an automobile) to turn, especially at a speed relatively high for the angle of the turn involved.

Origin of corners

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, equivalent to Old French corne corner, horn (Latin cornū horn; cf. cornu) + -er -

Examples for corners

They were racing toward the corner of Tompkins and Myrtle avenues with Johnson at the wheel when another call came over the radio.

But they do put it right around the corner near the time the video was shot.

"You can sleep there," he said, pointing to a cot bed in the corner of the room.

But the men drank it in—all except Henry, silent in his corner.

He was standing on the corner and wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, and this was 11:30 at night and it was really cold.

They have pushed into just about every other corner of the Caribbean and Central America where airports exist.

She's sitting up nights to corner all the Amalgamated Hard-luck on the island.

We'll put it across that corner, and have the couch against that wall.

His mother lay on a wretched bed in the corner, half stupefied with drink.

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.