▪ I. angle, n.1 arch.
(ˈæŋg(ə)l)
Forms: 1 angul, ongul, 1–2 angel, 4 angil, 5 -ell, -ylle, (hangul), 5– angle.
[OE. angul, cogn. w. OS. and OHG. angul (mod.G. angel), ON. öngull:—*angulr; cf. L. unc-us, angulus, and Aryan root ank- to bend.]
1. A fishing-hook; often, in later use, extended to the line or tackle to which it is fastened, and the rod to which the latter is attached. arch.
| c 880 K. ælfred Boeth. xx, Swa swa mid angle fisc ᵹe⁓fangen biþ. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 27 Gae to sæ & sende ongul vel hóc. c 1160 Hatton G. ibid., Wirp þinne angel ut. [Tindale, Genev. angle; Wyclif, Rhem., 1611 hook.] 1440 Promp. Parv., Angylle to take wyth fysche, Piscale, fistuca. 1496 Bk. St. Alban's (title of ed. 2) Treatyse perteynynge to Hawkynge, Huntynge and Fysshynge with an Angle. 1535 Coverdale Job xl. 20 Darrest thou drawe Leuiathan with an angle? 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. v. 10 Giue me mine Angle, weele to 'th' Riuer. 1611 Bible Isa. xix. 8 They that cast angle upon the brookes shall lament. 1653 Walton Angler 120 You will be pleased too, if you find a Trout at one of our Angles. 1764 Goldsm. Trav. 187 With patient angle trolls the finny deep. 1829 J. Clare Autumn in Anniv. 76 On which the shepherd crawls astride, to throw His angle clear of weeds. |
† 2. fig. A person or thing that catches like a hook.
Obs.| 1535 Coverdale Eccles. vii. 26 A woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett. 1537 ? Tindale Exp. St. John 45 He can not..hyde the angle of his poysoned heresye vnder a bayte of true doctrine. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. (1641) 6/2 Yea Faith it selfe, and Zeale, be sometimes Angles, Wherewith this Juggler heav'n-bent souls intangles. |
3. Comb. † angle-head, the barbed head of an arrow;
† angle-taster, an Arctic bird;
angle-worm, a worm for bait. Also
angle-hook, -rod, -twitch,
q.v.| c 1470 Henry Wallace iv. 554 Ane angell hede to the hukis he drew, And at a schoyt the formast sone he sleu. 1743 in Phil. Trans. XLII. 612 Greenland produces Maws, Red-shanks..Angle-tasters, Snipes, &c. 1875 B. Taylor Faust I. i. 26 Digs with eager hand for buried ore, And, when it finds an angle worm, rejoices. |
4. [
f. angle v.
1] An act of angling. Here
fig.| 1874 Hardy Madding Crowd II. i. 5 She forgot for a moment her thoughtless angle on that day in February. |
▪ II. angle, n.2 (
ˈæŋg(ə)l)
Also 4–5
aungel, 4–7
angel, 5–6
-ule,
-yll.
[a. Fr. angle:—L. angul-um (nom. -us) corner, a dim. form, of which the prim. *angus is not in L.; cf. Gr. ἄγκος a bend, a hollow angle, and L. ang-ĕre to compress in a bend or fold, to strangle; Aryan root ank- to bend.] 1. a. The indefinite space included between two meeting lines or planes, the shape of which depends upon their mutual inclination; hence in
Geom. the degree of inclination of two lines to each other, or of one line to a horizontal or vertical base-line.
The angle is measured by the portion of the circumference of a circle described from the intersection of the lines as centre, which is intercepted between the two lines. The inclination of two lines in the same plane is a plane angle, which may be
rectilineal or
curvilineal, as it is formed by straight or curved lines; the inclination of two lines on the surface of a sphere is a
spherical angle; the space included by more than two plane angles meeting at a point is a
solid angle.
| c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 222 By compositions of angles and of slie reflections. 1570 Billingsley Euclid i. def. 9 There are of angles thre kindes, a right angle, an acute angle, and an obtuse angle. 1571 Digges Geom. Pract. i. B j, A Playne Angle is the inclination of two lines lying in one playne Superficies, concurring or meeting in a poynt. 1594 Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. (ed. 7) 272 Sphericall, that is to say, round Angels, which consist of two circular lines drawn upon a Sphericall superficies. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vi. 193 With man..in natation they [legs and arms] intersect and make all sorts of Angles. 1690 Locke Hum. Underst. i. iv. (1695) 37 The three Angles of a Triangle are equal to two Right ones. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 60 The slope or inclination which one face [of a crystal] has to another; in other words the angle made by two neighbouring faces. |
¶ Measurement by angle is used in many departments of physics, mechanics, etc., to estimate the position of bodies, the direction of forces, etc. Hence such
phr. as
angle of application,
approach,
attack,
depression,
deviation,
elevation,
entry,
incidence,
inclination,
position,
reflection,
refraction,
repose,
rest,
traction,
trail,
vision; and the
vbl. phr. to take the angle.
| 1626 etc. [see incidence 4]. 1638 Wilkins Discov. New World i. (1684) 44 Where the Angel of Reflexion is Equal to the Angel of Incidence. 1790 Ray in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 154 By the means of this piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope..small angles of elevation or depression may be determined with great accuracy. 1805 Flinders ibid. XCV. 190 Endeavoured to take the angles on shore with a..theodolite. 1812 Woodhouse Astron. viii. 58 When through a Star great circles are drawn respectively from the poles of the equator and ecliptic, they form at the Star an angle called the Angle of Position. 1831 Brewster Optics iv. §35. 29 The angular change of direction or the angle of deviation as it is called. 1831 ― Nat. Magic iv. 87 A prism with a small refracting angle. 1849 Weale Dict. Terms 17 Angle of application, the angle which the line of direction of a power gives the lever it acts upon. Angle of inclination, the angle an inclined plane makes with the horizon. Angle of traction, the angle which the direction of a power makes with the inclined plane. 1869 Phillips, Vesuv. vii. 180 The usual angle of rest in loose materials. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 7/3 The angle at which the plane is inclined to the direction of motion, the technical term for that angle being the angle of attack. 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 454 Angle of Entry, the angle made by the tangent to the curve of the aeroplane surface at its forward edge, with the direction, or line, of travel. Ibid., Angle of Incidence, the angle made by the chord of the arc of a curved ‘plane’, or by the line of a flat plane, with the line of travel. Ibid., Angle of Trail, the angle made by the tangent to the rear edge of a curved plane with the line of travel. 1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces ii. 29 Even the angles were so diffcult: the angles of approach: the actual moment of initiation: the excruciating angle of continuance. 1948 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LII. 441/2 Approaches at a constant angle could be made by means of an ‘angle of approach light’, which was a light having three coloured sectors arranged one above the other, so that the pilot saw a red light if the aircraft was too low, a green light if the aircraft was approaching at the correct angle, and a yellow light if the aircraft was too high. 1962 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 1 Angle of incidence, angle of attack, the angle between the chord of a wing or the reference line in a body and the direction of the undisturbed flow in the absence of sideslip. Ibid. v. 4 Rigging angle of incidence, the angle between the chord of the main or tail plane and the horizontal when the aeroplane is in the rigging position. |
b. at angles with: so placed as to form an angle with, in opposition to
parallel (and, unless qualified by
right, to
perpendicular) to.
on the angle: obliquely.
| 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty iii. 19 The painter, if he is left to his choice, takes it on the angle rather than in front. 1779 J. Moore Soc. in France II. 169 Others which go off at right angles from that. 1862 Lytton Str. Story II. 11 Behind the portico of a detached house at angles with the street. |
c. The point or direction from which one views or approaches an object, circumstance, event, subject of inquiry, etc.; standpoint; hence (loosely)
= aspect 9; (
slang) scheme, illegal method. Freq. with defining word.
Cf. slant n.1| 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. iii. xxiii. 13 Tacit expectations of what would be done for him by Uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch. 1922 H. Walpole in S. Lewis Babbitt p. viii, Mr. Lewis turns the figure round and allows us to view it from every possible angle. 1928 A. Waugh Nor Many Waters (1930) vi. 241 The account of the cricket from an Australian angle. 1935 Proc. Prehist. Soc. I. 10 The study and appreciation of a culture from this angle imposes fresh obligations upon the archaeologist. 1936 Punch 14 Oct. 430/1 Let us approach the subject from a mathematical or statistical angle. 1942 World Rev. May 6/1 The right type of advertising man might be better as an adviser on the propaganda angle. 1942 A. Christie Body in Library xviii. 157 The selection of the poor child, Pamela, the approach to her from the film angle. 1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 116 The old stagers..the men who knew all the angles, who had great experience. 1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. ix. 103 His angle was to sell off tapes and pictures to the dirt magazines. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 259/3 This collection of essays..feels obliged to use such a selling angle to persuade America that a favourable attitude to colonialism can be held without giving hostages to Marxist criticism. |
d. Squash Rackets. In full
angle shot: a shot struck at the side wall so that it rebounds directly to the front wall without touching the floor.
| 1926 C. Arnold Squash Racquets ii. 12 The angle shot can be made from either court, forehand or backhand. 1933 Times 4 Dec. 6/6 In the fourth game Elsmie set an even faster pace by means of cleverly played angle shots. 1934 Times 13 Jan. 4/5 He played the angles cleverly and showed a delicate touch when using the drop. |
e. Photogr. In full
camera angle: the direction or viewpoint from which a photograph is taken. So
angle shot,
esp. in
Cinemat., a shot taken with the camera at an angle to the horizontal.
| 1928 Amer. Speech III. 352 Directors are obsessed with camera angles. 1937 Mod. Encycl. Photogr. I. 70/2 The angle shot is now extensively employed in order to give emphasis and dramatic force. 1959 Halas & Manvell Technique Film Amination 336 For variety of continuity a different angle is often used in long shots, medium shots and close-ups of the same subject. |
2. The meeting-point of two lines not in the same direction. Also
fig.| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. v. §2 (1873) 105 Several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 362 He is nexus utriusque mundi, the common Angle wherein the highest and noblest of Material and Corporeal Nature is joyned to the Spiritual. 1870 Flower Osteol. Mamm. 122 The angle of the jaw is the point at which the vertical hind edge of the ramus, descending from the condyle, meets the horizontal inferior border. |
3. A corner viewed internally or as a receding space; a retreating corner, a corner into which one may withdraw, a coign. Also
fig.| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame 1959 Alle the houses Angles [v.r. aungelys] Ys ful of rovnynges and of Iangles. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, Not openly as ypocrytes praye In dyuers angels ioyning on the waye. 1509 Fisher Wks. (1876) 171 We be thraste downe into a very streyght angyll. 1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. iii. i, Some darken'd blushless angle. 1655 Digges Compl. Ambass. 321 For truth will seek no angles. 1826 Scott Woodst. 187 In each angle of the ascent was placed..the figure of a Norman foot-soldier. |
4. A spot lying out of the direct way, an outlying spot or ‘corner,’ without reference to shape; a nook. Also
fig. arch.| 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys 2 For this the[y] soun Throwyn it [this book] in the angle of oblyvyoun. 1480 Caxton Descr. Brit. 3 Anglia hath that name as it were an angle and a corner of the world. 1563 Grindal Rem. (1843) 256 That little angle where I was born, called Cowpland. 1610 Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 223 Whom I left..In an odde Angle of the Isle. 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 171 To search the tenderest angles of the heart. 1656 S. Holland in Shaks. Cent. Praise 302 The fire of Emulation burnt fiercely in every angle of this Paradise. |
5. A corner viewed externally or as a projection, a projecting corner (of a building, etc.). Also
fig.| 1532 More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 1557. 783/1 That corner stone that is layed in the hed of the angle. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 111 The Roundell hath no bonch nor angle, Which may his course stay or entangle. 1624 Wotton Archit. (1672) 20 That the Angles be firmly bound, which are the Nerves of the whole Edifice. 1756 Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 184 There is nothing more prejudicial to the grandeur of buildings than to abound in angles. 1842 E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 18 The superior angle is received into the interval formed by the union of the posterior and superior angles of the parietal bones. |
6. An angular or sharp projection;
hence an angular fragment. Also
fig.| 1684 Dryden Ovid's Met. (R.) Though but an angle reach'd him of the stone. 1844 Kinglake Eothen ii. (1878) 21 The angle of the oriental stirrup is a very poor substitute for spurs. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. lxxxix. 40 We rub each other's angles down. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxviii. (1856) 229 We trod on the fractured angles of upturned ice. |
7. Astrol. A name given to the four astrological ‘houses,’ at the cardinal points of the compass.
| c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 263 Phebus hath laft the Angle [v.r. angel] meridional. 1594 Blundevil Exerc. iv. xxxvi. (ed. 7) 493 Of which 12 houses the foure principall are foure points of the Zodiaque, whereof two do fall upon the Horizon, and the other two upon the Meridian, and are called principall points, Poles, or Angles. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The horoscope of the first house is termed the angle of the East. 1819 J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 6 Ptolemy gives the preference to the south angle. |
8. Comb., chiefly
attrib.:
a. of shape (
= angular), as
angle-leg,
angle-piece,
angle-taper;
b. of position (at or in an angle), as
angle-bracket,
angle-column,
angle-niche,
angle-rafter,
angle-rib,
angle-stone,
angle-tower,
angle-turret. Also
angle-bar, the upright bar at the angle of a polygonal window,
also (
= angle-iron);
angle-bead, a vertical bead, usually of wood, fixed to an exterior angle, flush with the surface of the plaster;
angle-brace, a piece of timber fixed to the adjacent sides of a quadrangular framing;
angle-bracket, (
a) (see above); (
b)
Typogr., etc. (unhyphened), either of the symbols used, alone or in pairs, as a bracket in various scientific and general editorial contexts (see
quots.);
angle-brick (see
quot. a 1884);
angledozer,
angle-dozer (
ˈæŋg(ə)lˌdəʊzə(r)) [
cf. bulldozer], a type of bulldozer on which the blade can be set at an angle;
angle-iron, an
L-shaped piece of iron, used to secure or strengthen all kinds of framework;
angle-meter, an instrument for measuring angles,
esp. for ascertaining the dip of geological strata, a
clinometer;
anglepoise,
angle-poise [proprietary term]
a., designating a type of swivelled reading-lamp; also
ellipt.;
angle shades [
cf. shade n. 3 c], collectors' name for a species of moth,
Phlogophora meticulosa;
angle-staff (
= angle-bead);
angle-tie (
= angle-brace). Also
angle-wise,
q.v.| 1842 Gwilt Encycl. 1181 *Angle beads of wood round the intradosses of circular arches are difficult to bend without cutting or steaming them. |
| a 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 103/1 *Angle-bracket (Carpentry), one beneath the eave at the corner of a building, and projecting at an angle of 45° with the face of each wall. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 34/2 Angle bracket (Eng.), a bracket consisting of two sides set at right-angles, often stiffened by a gusset. [1954 T. W. Chaundy et al. Printing of Math. ii. 33 Two further sorts of brackets can be made available..‘double’ brackets {odsb} {cdsb} and ‘angular’ brackets ... Angular brackets have already been conventionalized in Physics, in connexion with Dirac's ‘bra’ and ‘ket’ vectors, and elsewhere.] 1956 F. H. Collins Authors' & Printers' Dict. (ed. 10) 15/1 Angle brackets . 1978 N. & Q. Feb. 90/1 The editors' preliminary announcement of policy together with..angle brackets for doubtful readings, removes the necessity for most textual footnotes. 1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects vi. 246 An angle bracket is a satisfactory mounting. |
| a 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 36/2 *Angle-brick, bricks specially formed to enable other than square angles to be turned. 1937 Discovery Sept. 289/2 Angle-bricks and half-sized bricks have been found. |
| 1880 J. Middleton in Academy 21 Aug. 139/3 The *angle columns have the least weight to bear. |
| 1940 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 54 Bulldozer, *Angledozer, a power operated machine of the grader type employed for spreading and levelling by pushing loose excavated material. 1942 Times 9 Oct. 2/2 There are..machines for levelling—motor propelled scrapers—tractors, dumpers, angle-dozers and bulldozers. 1958 J. S. Scott Dict. Civ. Engin. 8 Angle dozer, a bulldozer with the mouldboard set at an angle so that it pushes earth sideways instead of straight ahead. |
| 1862 Smiles Engineers III. 422 Cells formed of boiler-plates riveted together with *angle-iron. 1869 E. J. Reed Ship-build. ii. 25 The vertical flanges of the angle-irons were bolted through all. 1881 Greener Gun 415 A wooden frame..strengthened by an angle-iron facing. |
| 1649 Lovelace Lucaste, Like flyes Caught by their *angle-legs. |
| 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §295 Sixteen *angle pieces of iron..in the nature of knee timbers of a ship. |
| 1940 Graves & Hodge Long Week-end xx. 350 *Angle⁓poise reading-lamps that would swing and bend in any desired direction. 1949 Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 June 548/2 Angle-poise... Electric lamps embodying adjustable brackets or supports. Herbert Terry & Sons Limited..Redditch; Manufacturers—5th February, 1947. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head vi. 52 He switched off the centre lights and turned on a single anglepoise lamp on the work table which he swung round towards the pedestal. Ibid. 56 Alexander..had turned the anglepoise back to shine upon his unfinished head. |
| 1879 G. Scott Archit. II. 185 The *angle ribs of the outer half meet the transverse ribs of the inner half of the vault. |
| 1843 J. Duncan in W. Jardine Naturalist's Libr. XL. 235 (heading) The *Angle Shades. Phlogophora Meticulosa... Angle-Shades Moth. 1938 C. A. Hall Pocket-Bk. Brit. Butterflies 86 The Angle-Shades..is on the wing in June and again in the autumn. 1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles i. 294 (heading) The Small Angle Shades... The pale reniform mark on the outer edge of the blackish central area is the prominent feature of this pinkish or purplish brown moth. Ibid. 295 The Angle Shades... In this position [sc. with the wings folded] the moth is very like a crumpled decaying leaf. |
| 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. (1653) 131 The other two run towards an *Angle-taper, declining from twelve Inches in the But or bottom, to six Inches at the mouth. |
| 1782 in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 368 From the place into which this holdfast was driven to the outer end of the *angle-tie. |
| 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 June (1938) 110 No one knows how the outwork at Gaillard was breached: I fancy..that the *angle tower was mined over the filled up moat. 1958 Listener 9 Oct. 558/1 Telephone wires, aerials, angle towers, and sub-stations. |
| 1867 A. Barry Sir C. Barry iv. 110 The elevated *angle-turrets. |
Sense 8 in
Dict. becomes 9. Add:
8. ellipt. for
angle-iron, sense 9 below; iron or other metal in the form of bars having this shape.
| 1906 H. Adams Cassell's Engineers' Handbk. v. 114 (table) Angle, tee, channel, and flats of 12in. width and under. 1980 Amat. Gardening 4 Oct. 31/2 The supporting frame is usually of aluminium angle bolted together and suitably braced. 1983 J. S. Foster Structure & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. vi. 143/2 Connections..are made by means of steel bolts and rivets with angles as cleats. 1990 Traditional Homes Aug. 10/3 To cut slates to size or shape..obtain a length of iron angle and cramp it to the edge of a stout board. |
▪ III. angle, v.1 (
ˈæŋg(ə)l)
[f. angle n.1; cf. to hook.] 1. To use an angle; to fish with a hook and bait.
a. intr. Const.
for (
to obs.).
| 1496 Bk. St. Alban's in Eng. Home (1861) 66 [The most] stately ffyssh that ony may angle to in freshe water. 1530 Palsgr., 431/2 It is but a sory lyfe and an yuell to stand anglynge all day to catche a fewe fysshes. 1593 Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. 5 Let them not..angle for frogs in a cleare fountaine. 1653 Walton Angler 52 The fish which we are to Angle for. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. ii. 338 Always angle in black or dark-colour'd Cloaths. 1850 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxviii. 324 He would..listlessly angle in the placid waters. |
b. trans. To angle (a stream, etc.).
rare.
| 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 610 Fishermen licensed either to angle or net parts of the piscary. |
2. fig. To use artful or wily means to catch a person or thing, or elicit an opinion; to lay oneself out for, to ‘fish.’
a. intr. Const.
for.
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet Pref. 3, I doo but yet angle with a silken flye, to see whether Martins will nibble. 1601 Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 212 She..did angle for mee, Madding my eagernesse with her restraint. 1750 Chesterfield Lett. 255 III. 19 Modesty is the only sure bait, when you angle for praise. 1799 Southey Love Eleg. iii. II. 125 The subtile line Wherewith the urchin angled for my Heart. 1867 Disraeli in Morn. Star 12 Feb., We are not angling for a policy; we have distinct principles which will guide us. |
† b. trans. with the thing wanted as object.
Obs.| a 1586 Sidney (J.) If he spake courteously, he angled the people's hearts. 1597 Daniel Civ. Wares viii. xlvi, To angle the benevolence And catch the love of men with curtesies. a 1683 Oldham Wks. & Rem. (1686) 85 Shooes which..angled their Charity, that pass'd along. |
† c. trans. To angle
one on: to draw him onward by holding out a bait.
Obs. rare.
| 1653 Walton Angler 38 You have Angled me on with much pleasure to the thatcht House. |
▪ IV. angle, v.2 (
ˈæŋg(ə)l)
[f. angle n.2] † 1. intr. To run into a corner.
Obs.| 1575 Turberville Venerie 194 To make the vermine eyther start or angle. |
2. refl. To move in angles, wind, twist. Also
intr. = refl.| 1863 W. H. Goode Outp. Zion ii. xvii. 381 Thence angling across the country, we..entered the Lane road. 1876 Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xx. 198 The road angles itself up the precipitous hillside. 1883 Century Mag. Oct. 923/2 He..once more alters his direction, and so twists off, ‘angling’ across the meadow. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xx. 177 She wondered why he didn't walk direct to the..boulders, why he angled this way and that. |
3. a. intr. To turn or move at an angle, diagonally, or obliquely; to lie in an oblique direction.
| 1741 Boston Rec. 274 They have computed the charge of fixing piers..set angling cross the channel. 1835 Fraser's Mag. XI. 39 The circuitous route you are obliged to take—angling off at an infinite variety of points. 1869 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. 1868 258 About half the saplings may be laid along outside one stake, then inside of the next, and thence angling across to the other row. 1881 Mayne Reid Free Lances II. xxxii. 116 [The road] angles abruptly to the right. 1897 Times 5 Feb. 14/5 The Majestic..broke her starboard quarter rope, which caused her to angle across the entrance and to become jammed. 1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) xxix. 189 Two davenports angled across the corners of the room and there was one gold chair. |
b. trans. To strike, put, or drive at an angle.
| 1920 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 She attracted the returns to her by cleverly angling the ball. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xxv. 222 Bony had walked like a white man, angling his feet at twenty-five minutes to five. |
4. trans. To present (a story, description, subject of inquiry, etc.),
esp. in journalism, so as to suit a particular point of view.
Cf. angle n.2 1 c.
| 1937 Harper's Mag. Dec. 54/2 The good communist editor to-day turns a news story..over to his copy-writer and says: ‘Class-angle that, Jim.’ 1951 M. Dickens My Turn to make Tea ii. 13 You..almost never see the proprietor, although you feel his presence, because you have to angle your writing his way. 1959 C. MacInnes Absol. Beginners 132 The leader columns are angled at the more intelligent portions of the population. |