different between angle vs atilt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ng'g?l, IPA^(key): /?æ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus (“corner, remote area”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?engulos < *h?eng- (“corner, hirn”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus.

Noun

angle (plural angles)

2. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).

4. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
5. A corner where two walls intersect.

6. A change in direction.

8. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
   • 2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac (page 299)

     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."

9. (media) The focus of a news story.
10. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
11. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
12. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral

13. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
14. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.

Synonyms

• (corner): corner, nook
• (change in direction): swerve
• (vertex): -gon (as per hexagon)
• (viewpoint): opinion, perspective, point of view, slant, view, viewpoint

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Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)

1. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.

2. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.

3. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.

4. (transitive, cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English anglen (“to fish”), from Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from Old English angel, angul (“fishhook”), from Proto-Germanic *angul?, *angô (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?enk- (“something bent, hook”). Cognate with West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”).

Verb

angle (third-person singular simple present angles, present participle angling, simple past and past participle angled)

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
2. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

angle (plural angles)

1. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Vertuminus and Pomona

     A fisher next his trembling angle bears.

Anagrams

• Angel, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, genal, glean, lenga

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?a?.?l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?.?le/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan angle, from Latin angulus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?engulos (“joint?”).

Noun

angle m (plural angles)

1. (geometry) angle (figure formed by two rays which start from a common point)
2. angle (a corner where two walls intersect)

Related terms

• angular

Etymology 2

Adjective

angle (masculine and feminine plural angles)

1. Anglian (of or pertaining to the Angles)

Noun

angle m or f (plural angles)

1. Angle (member of a Germanic tribe)

Related terms

• anglo-

Further reading

• “angle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

angle

1. in the English language
2. in the manner of an English person

Related terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French angle, from Old French angle, from Latin angulus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?engulos (“joint?”), from *h?eng-, *ang- (“corner, hirn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/

Noun

angle m (plural angles)

1. (geometry) A geometric angle.

2. A location at the corner of something, such as streets, buildings, furniture etc.

   Synonym: coin

3. A viewpoint or angle.

Usage notes

• Inside a room, the word coin (“corner”) is more usual.

Derived terms

See also

• coin

Further reading

• “angle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• génal, glane, glané

German

Verb

angle

1. inflection of angeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French anglais (“English”).

Noun

angle

1. English language

Italian

Adjective

angle

1. feminine plural of anglo

Noun

angle f

1. plural of angla

Anagrams

• glena, lagne, legna

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French anglais

Noun

angle

1. English language

Adjective

angle

1. English

Old French

Alternative forms

• ange, angele, angre, enge

Etymology

From Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (ángelos).

Noun

angle m (oblique plural angles, nominative singular angles, nominative plural angle)

1. angel (biblical being)

Descendants

• Middle French: ange, angele, aingle, engle, angle, angre
  • French: ange
    • Haitian Creole: zanj
  • Norman: aunge
• Picard: anche
• Walloon: andje
• ? Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel, enngell
  • English: angel (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: angel, aungel

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German angeln, English angle.

Verb

angle

1. to fish, angle

English

Alternative forms

• a-tilt

Etymology

a- +? tilt

Adjective

atilt (not comparable)

1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
   • 1902, William Dean Howells, “Worries of a Winter Walk” in Literature and Life, New York: Harper, p. 37,^[1]

     When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz.

   • 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 77,^[2]

     In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.

   • 1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70,

     Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,

   Synonym: tilted

Adverb

atilt (not comparable)

1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
   • 1659, Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper’s School of Physick, London: N. Brook, “Doctor Diets Directory,” p. 300,^[3]

     Ale should not be drunk under five dayes old; new Ale is unwholsome, sowre Ale, and dead, and Ale which do stand atilt is most unwholesome.

   • 1733, Alexander Pope, The Impertinent, London: John Wileord, p. 12,^[4]

     In that nice Moment, as another Lye

     Stood just a-tilt, the Minister came by.

   • 1928, Maurice Walsh, While Rivers Run, London: W. & R. Chambers, Chapter 24,^[5]

     […] the slope flattened to a wide shelf where limestone cropped through the heather and many huge boulders were scattered atilt.

   • 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New” in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf p. 136,^[6]

     Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?

2. Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Scene 2,^[7]

     What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,

     And run a tilt at death within a chair?

   • 1669, Samuel Lee, Contemplations on Mortality, London, Chapter 7, p. 69,^[8]

     The shadow of death to David is but the shadow of evill. Though ten thousand Curiassiers run upon him atilt with envenom’d and poysoned spears, he layes him down in the bosome of God, he sleeps in peace;

   • 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Canto 2, p. 79,^[9]

     Make feeble Ladies, in their Works,

     To fight like Termagants and Turks;

     To lay their native Arms aside,

     Their modesty, and ride a-stride;

     To run a-Tilt at Men, and wield

     Their naked tools in open field;

   • 1895, F. F. Montrésor, Into the Highways and Hedges, New York: Appleton, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 235,^[10]

     Other people may ride atilt against all the problems one bruises head and heart over. Good luck go with them, and more power to their elbows!

Preposition

atilt

1. Diagonally over or across.

   Synonym: aslant

   • 1911, Jennie Brooks, Under Oxford Trees, Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, p. 80,^[11]

     A butterfly flew into the garden, danced a stately minuet mid-air, courtsied, and settled atilt the top rail of the old “snake fence.”

   • 1982, Jean Scott Wood Creighton (as J. S. Borthwick), The Case of the Hook-billed Kites, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 11, p. 29,^[12]

     [He] was balanced atilt a wooden chair, his legs resting on a low file cabinet.

   • 2004, Tracy Dahlby, Allah’s Torch, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 11, p. 146,^[13]

     With his shy grin, bushy black hair, and thick plastic-framed glasses riding atilt his nose, Reza looked like a high school techno-whiz temporarily locked out of the computer lab.

Anagrams

• T-tail