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 |
air passage air duct airway | a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) |
amen corner | area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens' |
blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
chimney corner inglenook | a corner by a fireplace |
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 |
duct | an enclosed conduit for a fluid |
duct tape | a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses, duct tape holds the world together |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
exocrine gland exocrine duct gland | a gland that secretes externally through a duct |
sweat duct | a small duct that conveys sweat from a sudoriferous gland to the surface of the skin |
lacrimal duct lachrymal duct tear duct | any of several small ducts that carry tears from the lacrimal glands |
nasolacrimal duct | a duct that carries tears from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity |
hepatic duct | the duct that drains bile from the liver |
common bile duct bile duct | a duct formed by the hepatic and cystic ducts, opens into the duodenum |
pancreatic duct | a duct connecting the pancreas with the intestine |
thoracic duct | the major duct of the lymphatic system |
salivary duct | a duct through which saliva passes from the salivary gland into the mouth |
seminal duct | the efferent duct of the testis in man |
ejaculatory duct | a part of the seminal duct formed by the duct from the seminal vesicle and the vas deferens, passes through the prostate gland |
lactiferous duct | ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple |
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 |
end man corner man | a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show, carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor |
duct | a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls |
recess recession niche corner | a small concavity |
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 |
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 |