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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
- Try feeling a little "schlubby" popping around the corner for a newspaper. Wine Shopping in San Francisco, Italian Style
- 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 .
- 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.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- 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.
- York were immediately on the back foot but repelled a series of short corners and managed to engineer a breakaway attack.
- 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
- The clothes lay huddled up in a pile in the corner.
- He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.
- That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
