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UK
/kˈɔːnɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkɔɹnɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔɹnɝ/ ]
VERB
- force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
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turn a corner
the car corners -
gain control over
corner the gold market
NOUN
- a small concavity
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an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
a piano was in one corner of the room - (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
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a place off to the side of an area
the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean
he tripled to the rightfield corner -
the intersection of two streets
standing on the corner watching all the girls go by -
a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
a corner on the silver market -
a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
his lying got him into a tight corner -
the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
the corners of a cube -
a remote area
in many corners of the world they still practice slavery -
the point where two lines meet or intersect
the corners of a rectangle -
a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
he knocked off the corners
How To Use corner In A Sentence
- Background-position: background image in the canvas element in the targeted space, designated the upper left corner of the image relative to the level of canvas and vertical spacing interval .
- Try feeling a little "schlubby" popping around the corner for a newspaper. Wine Shopping in San Francisco, Italian Style
- It was of average size with an unmade bed sitting in one corner, a night table, two dressers, a bureau, a desk, a small TV, and a lot of posters on the wall.
- And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
- He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.
- Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
- The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
- Drill a hole in each corner.
- What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
- I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
