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Corner can be a noun or a verb.
corner used as a noun:
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
"The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder." - The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
"The chimney corner was full of cobwebs." - The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
"Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table." - An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
"The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets." - An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
"From the four corners of the earth they come. — Shakespeare" - A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
"On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book." - A monopoly or controlling interest in a salable commodity, allowing the controlling party to dictate terms of sale.
"In the 1970's, private investors tried to obtain a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful." - One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
"The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside." - first base or third base.
"There are runners on the corners with just one out." - A corner kick.
- A point at which a function has two distinct derivatives.
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 →
corner used as a verb:
- To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.
"The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand." - To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
"The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court." - To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it.
"The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout." - To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
"As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out." - To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
"That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff."
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 corner?
- Noun usage: The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
- Noun usage: The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.
- Noun usage: Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
- Noun usage: The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.
- Noun usage: From the four corners of the earth they come. — Shakespeare
- Noun usage: On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.
- Noun usage: In the 1970's, private investors tried to obtain a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
- Noun usage: The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
- Noun usage: There are runners on the corners with just one out.
- Verb usage: The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.
- Verb usage: The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.
- Verb usage: The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.
- Verb usage: It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.
- Verb usage: As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.
- Verb usage: That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of corner 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 corner, 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).
