triangle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
entertainment
games
geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
music
rail-transport
railways
sciences
sports
transport
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + -angle.
Inflected forms:
form: triangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with three sides and three angles.
pos: noun
examples: The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.
gloss: A set square.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
pos: noun
gloss: A love triangle.
pos: noun
examples: One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
gloss: The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
pos: noun
gloss: A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
pos: noun
gloss: A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural-normally
examples: I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.
But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;
gloss: Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
pos: noun
gloss: A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
pos: noun
examples: After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.
Synonyms: △
triangle
Derived words: abracadabrangle
anal triangle
anterior triangle
anti-triangle
Bermuda Triangle
Bir Tawil Triangle
black triangle
blue triangle
Brocard triangle
Calot's triangle
Cape triangle
carotid triangle
circular triangle
color triangle
colour triangle
combustion triangle
cyclic triangle
cystohepatic triangle
danger triangle
danger triangle of the face
devil's triangle
Devil's Triangle
disclosure triangle
equilateral triangle
eternal triangle
femoral triangle
fire triangle
Floyd's triangle
foretriangle
furry triangle
Gergonne triangle
golden triangle
Golden Triangle
Goualougo Triangle
gyrotriangle
Halaib Triangle
Harberger's triangle
Harberger triangle
hepatobiliary triangle
hepatocystic triangle
ideal triangle
iron triangle
isosceles triangle
Kanizsa triangle
Karpman drama triangle
Koch's triangle
Lenné Triangle
Lithium Triangle
love triangle
Morley triangle
nanotriangle
nasolabial triangle
Nevada Triangle
North Atlantic Triangle
obtuse-angled triangle
obtuse triangle
Pascal's triangle
Penrose triangle
pink triangle
Polynesian Triangle
posterior triangle
pseudotriangle
pubic triangle
purple triangle
Pythagorean triangle
red triangle slug
Reuleaux triangle
right-angled triangle
right triangle
scalene triangle
Scarpa's triangle
set triangle
Sierpinski triangle
sight triangle
South Triangle
spherical triangle
star-triangle relation
sternocostal triangle
subtriangle
Sunni Triangle
superior carotid triangle
tangential triangle
time triangle
triangle choke
triangled
Triangle Flat
triangle-free
triangle group
triangle inequality
triangleness
triangle of death
triangle offense
triangle of life
triangle piercing
triangle pose
Triangler
triangle spider
triangle test
triangle wave
trianglewise
trianglist
triangular
triangular distribution
triangular function
triangular prism
triangulate
triangulation
triangulist
trianguloid
trilliant
trioval
trixel
unified rear triangle
van Arkel–Ketelaar triangle
warning triangle
West Triangle
work triangle
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