angle – English noun declension

English noun forms of angle

Noun: angle
Singularangle
Pluralangles

Sample Sentences

  • the angle between lines A and B
  • The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.
  • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. [2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:]
  • an angle of a building
  • The horse took off at an angle.
  • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” [2013 January 26, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:]
  • For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle. Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation." [2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac, page 299:]
  • His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
  • though but an angle reached him of the stone [1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos
4. Proto-Italic *angulos
5. Latin angulusder.
6. Middle French anglebor.
7. Middle English angle
8. English angle
9. From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus and ankle. See: Middle English Nouns 'angle', Latin Nouns 'angulus'.

Verbs referencing "angle"

German Nouns Angel, Old Norse Nouns ǫngull.