corner kick | a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line |
amen corner | area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens' |
blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
bunsen burner bunsen etna | a gas burner used in laboratories, has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air |
burner | an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse), a diesel engine is an oil burner |
burner | the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking, the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one |
charcoal burner | a stove that burns charcoal as fuel |
chimney corner inglenook | a corner by a fireplace |
compact-disk burner CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
corner quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building, especially one formed by a cornerstone |
corner nook | an interior angle formed by two meeting walls, a piano was in one corner of the room |
corner pocket | a pocket at the corner of a billiard table |
corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
gas burner gas jet | burner such that combustible gas issues from a nozzle to form a steady flame |
oil burner oil furnace | a furnace that burns oil |
pilot burner pilot light pilot | small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner |
corner | the point where two lines meet or intersect, the corners of a rectangle |
corner | a place off to the side of an area, he tripled to the rightfield corner, the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean |
corner | a remote area, in many corners of the world they still practice slavery |
corner | the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect, the corners of a cube |
corner | a projecting part where two sides or edges meet, he knocked off the corners |
charcoal burner | a worker whose job is to make charcoal |
end man corner man | a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show, carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor |
recess recession niche corner | a small concavity |
back burner | reduced priority, dozens of cases were put on the back burner |
front burner | top priority, the work was moved to the front burner in order to meet deadlines |
corner box | a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible, his lying got him into a tight corner |
corner | a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade, a corner on the silver market |
corner | turn a corner, the car corners |
corner tree | force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape |
corner | gain control over, corner the gold market |
clandestine cloak-and-dagger hole-and-corner(a) hugger-mugger hush-hush secret surreptitious undercover underground | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods, clandestine intelligence operations, cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines, hole-and-corner intrigue, secret missions, a secret agent, secret sales of arms, surreptitious mobilization of troops, an undercover investigation, underground resistance |
catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered kitty-corner kitty-cornered | slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line, set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot |
digressive tangential | of superficial relevance if any, a digressive allusion to the day of the week, a tangential remark |
hole-and-corner hole-in-corner | relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life, a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community- H.G.Wells |
tangential | of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent, tangential forces |