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corner English

Meaning corner meaning

What does corner mean?
Definitions in simple English

corner Noun

— A corner is the place where two lines or edges meet. They live on the corner of Main Street and Dundas. Just put it on the table in the corner of the room. — In business, a corner is a monopoly.

corner Verb

— To corner someone is to get someone into a place where he or she cannot leave. Jessy cornered him in the supply room and wouldn't let him leave. — To go around corners. The car really corners well. Turns are easy for it.

corner

— noun a place off to the side of an area he tripled to the rightfield corner the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean — noun the point where two lines meet or intersect the corners of a rectangle — noun an interior angle formed by two meeting walls a piano was in one corner of the room — noun the intersection of two streets standing on the corner watching all the girls go by — noun the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect the corners of a cube — noun (= recess) a small concavity — noun a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade a corner on the silver market — noun a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible his lying got him into a tight corner — noun a projecting part where two sides or edges meet he knocked off the corners — verb gain control over corner the gold market — verb turn a corner the car corners — verb force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape — noun a remote area in many corners of the world they still practice slavery — noun (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

Synonyms corner synonyms

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corner English » English

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Topics corner topics

What do people use corner to talk about?
States Parts of things

Edge

  • What words refer to the corner of something?
    corner (n)
  • What words describe something that is on the corner?
    corner (adj)
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Roof
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
Physical actions Move Pursue

Catch, capture
Person Body Head

Eye
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Table
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
States Big Distance

Near
States Time Aspectual time Future

Soon

Conjugation corner conjugation

How do you conjugate corner?

corner · verb

Examples corner examples

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Simple sentences

When he went out the front door, the bus was just coming around the corner.
I used to serve food at the soup kitchen around the corner.
Put them in the corner.
Could we have a table in the corner?
Round the corner came a large truck.
There is a bookstore just 'round the corner.
There's a pub just around the corner.
The house on the corner is ours.
We turned left at the corner and drove north.
Most accidents happen around the corner.
There's a white building just around the corner.
Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.
The shop is on the corner of the street.
The man walked round the corner.
Covered with dust, the doll stood in the corner of the room.
The accident took place at that corner.
I'd like a room in the corner of the building.
You'll find the shop around the corner.
Turn left at the corner.
It's at the corner.
Someone is hiding in the corner.

Movie subtitles

Thirsting after conquest, commerce, colonisation and conversion, they exported their civilization from their little nook of Western Eurasia to every corner of the globe.
Nebuchadnezzar is sleeping in the Ieft-hand corner of the screen. - NIALL: Oh, yes.
Oh, okay. Actually, no, forget the Uber, it's just around the corner.
The sad girl in the corner.
It's around the corner, half a block up.
Fear lurked in every corner of town.
There's been a murder last night, round the corner.
As you were saying. rather unfortunate the way that poor man round the corner. uh. died last night.
Now, we'll take lot number 20, right at the corner of DeSota Avenue.
In the corner of the building there's a little room. right next to the morgue!
Maybe over there in the corner.
I'm going to meet my friends on the corner.
Here, eat it in the corner.
In the corner!
At the corner of Sadovaya and Nevsky.
In my little black bag, in the right-hand corner.
He is round the corner, at the Christine.
If I find out who did it, they'll stand in the corner.
Prosperity is just around the corner.
He may be here now, in the garden looking through the window, or in the corner of my bedroom waiting for me, waiting to kill me!
Notify Scotland Yard to have a plainclothesman posted. on every corner of the district.
Yes, he's just around the corner.
Lead the pony around the corner.
You've been with me from the first, and you've been loyal and true. followed me into every tight corner men could follow another.
If you're not, I'll search every corner of this town till I find you.
The engineer's over there in the corner.
Actually, no, forget the Uber, it's just around the corner.
Fold the triangle in half by taking the left corner and folding it to the right.
Take the top flap and open it, creasing it to the left and right side so you can fold the top right corner to the bottom corner.
I'll wait in the car at the corner for ten minutes.
Barroom is around the corner, sir. Alright.
The cops are three deep on every corner.
Drive me around the corner and wait.
Monsieur La Tour La Tour. Stand with your back in the corner.
At the corner, I jump in the truck.

News and current affairs

But when pressure is high, government leaders charged with financial management feel trapped in a corner during any currency crisis.
The more meaningful message is how these shocks box the rest of us into an even tighter corner.
BERKELEY - On the back left corner of my desk right now are three recent books: Arthur Brooks' The Battle, Charles Murray's Coming Apart, and Nicholas Eberstadt's A Nation of Takers.
Instead of seeing real people in crisis, they see caricatures, a terrorist around every corner.
The US has thus painted itself into a corner.
Television has reshaped society in every corner of the world.
This makes their friends hesitate to speak up for fear of being painted into not just an anti-Israel, but also an anti-Semitic corner.
The genius of the Habsburg Empire's Prince Klemens von Metternich in framing a new international order after the Napoleonic Wars was that he did not push a defeated France into a corner.
Who wants to build up debt if there might be a financial crisis around the corner?
Normally cautious governments are positioning themselves now as if the future were around the corner.
A dollar crisis is not around the corner, but it is certainly a huge risk over the next five to 10 years.
Weaker countries sometimes attack when they feel backed into a corner, such as Japan did at Pearl Harbor or China did when it entered the Korean War in 1950.
With the United Nations sanctions regime now having proven to be utterly ineffective, and with international diplomacy apparently futile in preventing the Iranians from mastering the technology for enriching uranium, Israel is being boxed into a corner.
I think this is a risky strategy; if a strong US recovery is not around the corner, then Europe needs to act on its own, using the standard counter-cyclical tools of monetary and fiscal policy.
According to Hollande, the economic upturn - la reprise - had just started, and hope was around the corner.
Both Obama and Romney run the risk of painting themselves into a corner when it comes to China.
It would be dangerous to assume that after Tunisia, democracy in the Arab world is just around the corner.
The spectacle of a communist regime trying to jack up a casino-like capitalist market is just one of the many contradictions that have been accumulating in almost every corner of China's economy and politics.
But that is how it is in the Middle East: you never know what lies around the corner.
All start on the great Tibetan Plateau and flow in parallel through the northwest corner of the province into Southeast Asia.

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