corner
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.
Inflected forms:
form: corners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cornering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cornered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cornered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
examples: The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
examples: The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner.
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
examples: Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
examples: The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
gloss: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent
gloss: An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
pos: noun
examples: Shining a light in the dark corners of the mind.  I took a trip out to his corner of town.
Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.
gloss: A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
pos: noun
examples: On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.
gloss: An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
pos: noun
gloss: A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
pos: noun
examples: In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
gloss: A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression.
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
examples: The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
examples: There are runners on the corners with just one out.
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the playing field.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
pos: noun
examples: Welcome to our English corner.
gloss: A point scored in a rubber at whist.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.
In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
gloss: To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.
gloss: To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.
It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.
gloss: To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.
gloss: To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.
gloss: To supply with corners.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades
gloss: Spoken by service staff such as waiters when walking around a corner, to warn other staff and prevent a collision.
pos: intj
Synonyms: angle
bend
cranny
hern
hideaway
hirn
nook
recess
Derived words: around the corner
at the corner
back oneself into a corner
boundary corner
box oneself into a corner
Bridgewater Corners
cater-corner
catty-corner
chimney-corner
chimney corner
coffin corner
cornerback
corner bath
corner boy
corner bracket
cornercap
corner case
corner flag
corner forward
corner infield
corner infielder
corner kick
cornerless
cornerlike
cornerman
corner man
corner office
corner of the eye
corner of the mouth
cornerpiece
corner pub
corner quote
corner shop
corner solution
cornersome
cornerstone
corner-stone
corner store
corner throw
corner time
corner tooth
cornerways
cornerwise
cow corner
Coxs Corner
Crooked Corner
cum corner
cut corners
cut off a corner
Dangerous Corner
Dark Corner
Dutch corner
elephant in the corner
every nook and corner
fight one's corner
happy corner
Hell Corner
hole-and-corner
hospital corner
hot corner
Hyde Park Corner
in a corner
in one's corner
in someone's corner
keystone corner
kitty-corner
kitty corner
kitty wants a corner
long corner
Neds Corner
Newlands Corner
nook and corner
out of the corner of one's eye
paint oneself into a corner
penalty corner
photo corner
pick corners
pincushion corner
puss in the corner
pussy wants a corner
Pye Corner
round the corner
Scotch Corner
short corner
short-corner
soft corner
street corner
streetcorner
Sunny Corner
Tattenham Corner
tricorner
turn a corner
turn the corner
write oneself into a corner
cornerer
corner the market
corner up
outcorner
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: nurkka
lang: Irish
word: monaplacht
lang: Swahili
word: kona