angle

Etymology Borrowed from Latin Anglus, in turn borrowed from a Germanic source (compare Old English Ængle/Engle (“Angle”)). Probably derived from the toponym Angle, related to Proto-Germanic *anguz "narrow, tight; tapering", either indicating the "narrow" water (i.e. the Schlei estuary), or the shape of the peninsula. Folk etymology linking the word to English angel or any antecedents is demonstrably false.

Derived terms

Anglic, anglo-, Anglo-, anglo

Etymology From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus and ankle.

Synonyms

corner, nook, swerve, -gon, opinion, perspective, point of view, slant, view, viewpoint

Derived terms

125 terms

acute-angled, adjacent angle, advance angle, angle bar, angle bead, angle bisector, angle brace, angle bracket, angledozer, angle for, angle for farthings, anglegram, angle grinder, angle harp, angle iron, angle leaf, angleless, angle level, anglemeter, angle of attack, angle of depression, angle of elevation, angle of His, angle of incidence, angle of Louis, angle of reflection, angle of refraction, angle of repose, angle of torsion, angle of vanishing stability, angle of view, angle parking, anglepoise, angle quote, angles and dangles, angle shaft, angle shoot, angle-shoot, angle shooter, angle shooting, angle shot, angle stealer, angle stealing, angle tie, anglewing, anglewise, base angle, biangle, bond angle, Bragg angle, Brewster's angle, camber angle, camera angle, canted angle, carpal angle, cerebellopontine angle syndrome, circular angle, complete angle, conjugate angle, corresponding angle, crab angle, crank angle, crank angle degree, critical angle, dead angle, decangle, deck angle, diangle, dihedral angle, double angle quotation mark, double angle quote, downflooding angle, Dutch angle, eigenangle, equiangle, Euler angle, facial angle, first angle projection, first-angle projection, full angle, gastric angle, gyroangle, heptangle, horn angle, hyperbolic angle, internal angle, launch angle, Mach angle, minute of angle, multiangle, Myspace angle, MySpace angle, narrow-angle, narrow-angle lens, Northwest Angle, obtuse-angled, octangle, off-angle, phase angle, play the angles, polyangle, pseudoangle, Q angle, quinquangle, reangle, reference angle, reflex angle, renal angle, semiangle, septangle, sexangle, single angle quote, spherical angle, staff angle, stall angle, sternal angle, The Angle, third-angle projection, third angle projection, torsion angle, vertex angle, Virchow's angle, visual angle, what's one's angle, wide-angle

Related terms

angular, angulate, angulation, pentangle, quadrangle, rectangle, triangle, arcminute, arcsecond, degree, gradian, radian

Hyponyms

acute angle, angle of repose, Batman angle, central angle, complementary angle, conjugate angle, dihedral angle, explementary angles, exterior angle, interior angle, narrow angle, oblique angle, obtuse angle, opposite angle, plane angle, right angle, round angle, solid angle, straight angle, supplementary angle, vertical angle, wide angle

Etymology From Middle English anglen (“to fish, fish with a hook”, literally “to fish-hook”), perhaps from Old English *anglian, from Proto-West Germanic *anglōn (“to hook”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ongelje (“to fish, angle”), Dutch hengelen (“to fish, angle”), German Low German angeln (“to fish, angle”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”).

Derived terms

angledog, angler, anglerod, angletwitch, angleworm, angling

Etymology From Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel (“hook, fishhook”), from Proto-West Germanic *angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to make crooked, bend”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Ongle (“fishhook; fishing pole”), West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), Luxembourgish Aangel (“fishing rod”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”), Norwegian Nynorsk angel, ongel, ongul (“fishhook”), Swedish angel (“pike hook”), Prasuni uku (“shoulder”).