Attached vs Triangle - What's the difference?
attached | triangle |
(attach)
In a romantic or sexual relationship.
(botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
A love triangle.
* 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:
(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
(historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.
As a verb attached
is (attach).As an adjective attached
is in a romantic or sexual relationship.As a proper noun triangle is
the area comprising the cities of used with "the" except when attributive.attached
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
- I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.
- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
Coordinate terms
* (sharing two walls) detached, semiattachedtriangle
English
Noun
(en noun)- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.