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Angle can be a noun or a verb.
angle used as a noun:
- A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
"the angle between lines A and B" - The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
"The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees." - A corner where two walls intersect.
"an angle of a building" - A change in direction.
"The horse took off at an angle." - A viewpoint.
"Look at it from this angle." - The focus of a news story, either in print or broadcasting.
- A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- A scheme; a means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, possibly illegal.
"His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
angle used as a verb:
- To place (something) at an angle.
"The roof is angled at 15 degrees." - To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- To change direction rapidly.
"The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is angle?
- Noun usage: the angle between lines A and B
- Noun usage: The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.
- Noun usage: an angle of a building
- Noun usage: The horse took off at an angle.
- Noun usage: Look at it from this angle.
- Noun usage: His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
- Verb usage: The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
- Verb usage: The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of angle are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of angle, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
