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Corner   /kˈɔrnər/   Listen
Corner

noun
1.
A place off to the side of an area.  "The southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"
2.
The point where two lines meet or intersect.
3.
An interior angle formed by two meeting walls.  Synonym: nook.
4.
The intersection of two streets.  Synonyms: street corner, turning point.
5.
The point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect.
6.
A small concavity.  Synonyms: niche, recess, recession.
7.
A temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade.
8.
A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.  Synonym: box.
9.
A projecting part where two sides or edges meet.
10.
A remote area.
11.
(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.  Synonym: quoin.
verb
(past & past part. cornered; pres. part. cornering)
1.
Gain control over.
2.
Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape.  Synonym: tree.
3.
Turn a corner.



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"Corner" Quotes from Famous Books



... content, of which as yet she failed to realise the meaning. Nevertheless, her heart beat with a pleasurable excitement as she threaded her way through the crowded streets, wondering if once again the fairy equipage would be sent to the rescue, if it would appear at this corner or the next. At last, through the driving sleet, she recognised the familiar outline of the brougham drawn up beside the pavement, but for once the coachman sat stiffly on his box, while the master stepped forward to ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... Babbie on his knee, sat in the corner of the bay window looking out on the street, while Mrs. Armstrong and her brother and Miss Hunniwell played and sang and the captain applauded vigorously and loudly demanded more. After a time Ruth left the group at the piano and joined Jed and her ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... remember too!" said Alexandra. "You quarrelled about the wounded pigeon, and Adelaida was put in the corner, and stood there with her helmet and ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... vouchsafed no reply, either to their threats or their supplications, and how long the blockade might have lasted it is impossible to say, had not a fresh dissension called the beleaguerers away. A cluster of boys at a corner of the big corridor near the main entrance attracted their curiosity, and suggested a possibility of even more entertainment than the goading into fury of a parcel of little boys, so, taking advantage of a moment when the besieged had combined, shoulder ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... flung themselves panting against the sides of the square, for they had good reason to know that whoso was left outside when the fighting began would very probably die in an extremely unpleasant fashion. The little hundred-and-fifty-pound camel-guns posted at one corner of the square opened the ball as the square moved forward by its right to get possession of a knoll of rising ground. All had fought in this manner many times before, and there was no novelty in the entertainment; always the ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling


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