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Angle

noun

The space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians.

A biased way of looking at or presenting something. Synonym: slant.

A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons.

verb

(past & past part. angled; pres. part. angling)

Move or proceed at an angle.

To incline or bend from a vertical position. Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip.

Seek indirectly. Synonym: fish.

Fish with a hook.

Present with a bias. Synonyms: slant, weight.

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"Angle" Quotes from Famous Books

... us Englishmen—which sends Oswells single handed against the mightiest beasts that walk the earth, and takes the poor cockney journeyman out a ten miles' walk almost before daylight, on the rare summer holiday mornings, to angle with rude tackle in reservoir or canal—should be dragged through such mire as this in many an English shire in our day. If English landlords want to go on shooting game much longer, they must give up selling ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... alone," so also it is true that it was not made for the benefit of defendants alone. The day may come when the Court will approach the question of the relation of the full faith and credit clause to the extrastate operation of laws from the same angle as it today views the broader question of the scope of State legislative power. When and if this day arrives, State statutes and judicial decisions will be given such extraterritorial operation as seems reasonable to the Court ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... safe in the corner of the room, on the same side as the door—Sir Joseph, helpless as a child, in Launce's arms; the women pale, but admirably calm. They were safe for the moment, when the second bullet (fired at an angle) tore its way through the wall on their ...

— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins

... hundreds of miles and fell into the sea, where they made the water around them boiling hot. Some probably flew back again the way the star had come. Some perhaps flew high enough to fall into the moon itself! but one piece, about as large as a bushel basket, came zipping downward at a long angle, like a blazing ball of flame, for it had struck the air so hard a blow that the heat of it had melted the fragment. Down it came, crashing through the great limbs of the trees beyond Umpl and Sptz with a huge rushing roar, and when it struck the earth the ground trembled for ...

— The Iron Star - And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages • John Preston True

... dashed forward at the same reckless pace, regardless alike of the dirt and wet which flew about his head, the profound darkness of the night, and the probability of encountering some desperate characters abroad. At every turn and angle, even where a deviation from the direct course might have been least expected, and could not possibly be seen until he was close upon it, he guided the bridle with an unerring hand, and kept the middle of the road. Thus he sped onward, raising himself in the stirrups, ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

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