Triangle vs Terrible - What's the difference?
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(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.
Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
Formidable, powerful.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 Unpleasant; disagreeable.
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, title= Very bad; lousy.
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As a proper noun triangle
is the area comprising the cities of used with "the" except when attributive.As an adjective terrible is
dreadful; causing alarm and fear.triangle
English
Noun
(en noun)- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
Synonyms
* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See alsoDerived terms
* acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulationExternal links
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible , nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}
Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.}}