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angle

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1. angle - Noun

2. angle - Verb

Meaning

The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

The figure made by. two lines which meet.

The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.

A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."

A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.

To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.

To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. Henry Ford

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. Jeanette Winterson

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. Havelock Ellis

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makres real advances in science. Albert Einstein

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman. Oscar Niemeyer

Towns should be laid out not as an exact square nor with salient angles, but in circular form, to give a view of the enemy from many points. Defense is difficult where there are salient angles because the angle protects the enemy rather than the inhabitants. Vitruvius

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