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 |
Angles
(n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc. |
Break
(v. t.) To strain apart |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose |
Break
(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. |
Break
(v. t.) To interrupt |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of |
Break
(v. t.) To shatter to pieces |
Break
(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of |
Break
(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. |
Break
(v. t.) To diminish the force of |
Break
(v. t.) To impart, as news or information |
Break
(v. t.) To tame |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of |
Break
(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence |
Break
(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. |
Break
(v. i.) To open up |
Break
(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties |
Break
(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief |
Break
(v. i.) To fall in business |
Break
(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change |
Break
(v. i.) To fail in musical quality |
Break
(v. i.) To fall out |
Break
(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption of continuity |
Break
(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. |
Break
(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. |
Break
(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning |
Break
(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. |
Break
(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
Break
(n.) See Commutator. |
Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Break-up
(n.) Disruption |
Fracture
(n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder |
break breakout
jailbreak
gaolbreak
prisonbreak
prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
open frame
break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
| fast break | (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball |
| break | a sudden dash, he made a break for the open door |
breakage
break
breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
fracture
crack
cracking | the act of cracking something |
break interruption
disruption gap | an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity, it was presented without commercial breaks, there was a gap in his account |
| break break of serve | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving, he was up two breaks in the second set |
| break | the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
break dancing
break dance | a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground, normally performed to the rhythm of rap music |
housebreaking
break-in
breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
| break seal | a seal that must be broken when first used and cannot easily be resealed, it was stored in a tube with a break seal |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
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 |
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 |
| break | an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion), then there was a break in her voice |
rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
break good luck
happy chance | an unexpected piece of good luck, he finally got his big break |
| break | the occurrence of breaking, the break in the dam threatened the valley |
interruption
break | some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity, the telephone is an annoying interruption, there was a break in the action when a player was hurt |
| service break | a tennis game won on the opponent's service |
coffee break
tea break | a snack taken during a break in the work day, a ten-minute coffee break, the British have tea breaks |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
fault
faulting
geological fault
shift
fracture
break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other, they built it right over a geological fault, he studied the faulting of the earth's crust |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
breakax
breakaxe
break-axe
Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |
tax benefit
tax break | a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity |
| 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 |
| complementary angles | two angles whose sum is a right angle |
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) |
| inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle
reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
| salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle
internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle
external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |
angle of incidence
incidence angle | the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence |
| angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
| critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
| angle of reflection | the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |