angle
/ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/ verb C2- To place (something) at an angle. · The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
- To change direction rapidly. · The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
- To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint. · How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?
- To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
He/she/it angles · Past angled · Past participle angled · -ing form angling
Verb forms
- Base form
- angle
- He/she/it
- angles
- Past
- angled
- Past participle
- angled
- -ing form
- angling
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Now, I observe, Ames, that there is a small piece of plaster at the angle of Mr.
It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.
The ground is very hard, you see, and there are no marks to guide us.” As he spoke two men came down the garden path, from round the angle of the house.
Then, once free, from the day and hour and moment when he was so, he could have but one only thought, which was, to gain Monte Cristo by some means, and remain there alone under some pretext which would arouse no suspicions; and once there, to endeavor to find the wonderful caverns, and search in the appointed spot,—the appointed spot, be it remembered, being the farthest angle in the second opening.
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