Angle (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet |
Angle (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet. |
Angle (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. |
Angle (n.) A projecting or sharp corner |
Angle (n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." |
Angle (n.) A fishhook |
Angle (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line. |
Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice |
Angle (v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice |
Bead (n.) A prayer. |
Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament |
Bead (n.) Any small globular body |
Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits. |
Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. |
Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). |
Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. |
Bead (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe |
Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. |
Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it |
Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken. |
Edge (v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument |
Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border |
Edge (v. t.) Sharpness |
Edge (v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division |
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon |
Edge (v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border |
Edge (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively |
Edge (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise |
Edge (v. i.) To move sideways |
Edge (v. i.) To sail close to the wind. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Gilt-edge (a.) Alt. of Gilt-edged |
Knife-edge (n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. |
Protection (n.) The act of protecting, or the state of being protected |
Protection (n.) That which protects or preserves from injury |
Protection (n.) A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest |
Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation |
protection tribute | payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence, every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection |
protection | the activity of protecting someone or something, the witnesses demanded police protection |
self-defense self-defence self-protection | the act of defending yourself |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
protection trade protection | the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition, he made trade protection a plank in the party platform |
auspices protection aegis | kindly endorsement and guidance, the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
bead | a small ball with a hole through the middle |
beading bead beadwork astragal | a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture |
beads string of beads | several beads threaded together on a string |
deckle edge deckle | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object, he rounded the edges of the box |
edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface, a place farthest away from the center of something, the edge of the leaf is wavy, she sat on the edge of the bed, the water's edge |
edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
fore edge foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, the part opposite the spine |
high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
knife edge cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
leading edge | forward edge of an airfoil |
protective covering protective cover protection | a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury, they had no protection from the fallout, wax provided protection for the floors |
quirk bead bead and quirk | beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates |
razor edge | an edge that is as sharp as the cutting side of a razor |
rosary prayer beads | a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) |
trailing edge | the rear edge of an airfoil |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
sun protection factor SPF | the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun |
knife-edge | a narrow boundary, he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity |
edge | a slight competitive advantage, he had an edge on the competition |
edge sharpness | the attribute of urgency in tone of voice, his voice had an edge to it |
equal protection of the laws | a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment |
vanguard forefront cutting edge | the position of greatest importance or advancement, the leading position in any movement or field, the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England, the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy |
slant angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
Environmental Protection Agency EPA | an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment |
edge border | the boundary of a surface |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
white baneberry white cohosh white bead doll's eyes Actaea alba | North American herb with white poisonous berries |
cat'slaw catclaw black bead Pithecellodium unguisati | erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds, West Indies and Florida |
bead tree jumby bean jumby tree Ormosia monosperma | small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers, seeds are black or scarlet with black spots |
jumby bead jumbie bead Ormosia coarctata | West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds |
sensitive fern bead fern Onoclea sensibilis | beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe, pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched, pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes |
security protection | defense against financial failure, financial independence, his pension gave him security in his old age, insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |