Corner vs Age - What's the difference?
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The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
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#The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
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#The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
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#An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
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An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
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A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
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A monopoly or controlling interest in a salable commodity, allowing the controlling party to dictate terms of sale.
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(lb) Relating to the playing field.
#(lb) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
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#(lb) First base or third base.
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#(lb) A corner kick.
To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.
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To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it.
(automotive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
(automotive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
(uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
(countable) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
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, title= (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
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, title= (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
The people who live at a particular period.
(countable) A generation.
(countable, hyperbole) A long time.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
(figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
(accounting) To categorize by age.
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
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(en noun)Quotations
* 2006 , Kelly K. Chappell, Effects of Concept-based Instruction on Calculus Students’ Acquisition of Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skill'', in John Dossey, Solomon Friedberg, Glenda Lappan, W. James Lewis (editorial committee), ''Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education VI ,page 41, *: Of the students enrolled in a traditional learning environment, 65% (42 of 65) correctly answered that the function was not differentiable (or had no derivative) at .Of those, 55% (23 of 42) argued that a function did not have a derivative at a corner .
Synonyms
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(en verb)- The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.
Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
- ''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.
- The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.
- It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.
- As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.
- That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.
Derived terms
* catercorner * corner flag * corner kick * corner shop * cornerstone * corner store * corner the market * corner time * corner tooth * cow corner * kitty corner * long corner * short corner * paint oneself into a cornerSee also
* pick cornersStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----age
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(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age' seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the ' age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.}}
Synonyms
* (latter part of life) dotage, old age, eldDerived terms
* act one's age * age before beauty * aged * ageism * age discrimination * age distribution * age group * ageist * ageless * age limit * agelong * Age of Aquarius * age of consent * Age of Enlightenment * age of majority * Age of Reason * age-old * age rating * age-reversal * ages * age spot * ageing, aging * all ages * atomic age/Atomic Age * bone age * Bronze Age * come of age/coming of age * coon's age * dark age/Dark Ages * day and age/in this day and age * drinking age * emotional age * for the ages * full age * golden age * heroic age * ice age * Industrial Age * Iron Age * jazz age * legal age * mental age * Middle Ages * New Age * new-age * nuclear age * of age * old-age * prehistoric age * school age * silver age * space age/space-age * Stone Age * teenage, teenager * under age/underage * voting age * youth-on-ageVerb
- They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
- I am aging ; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=As we age , the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}
