angle

angle is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
2. noun. The figure made by. two lines which meet.
3. noun. The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
4. noun. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
5. noun. A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
6. noun. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
7. intransitive verb. To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
8. intransitive verb. To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
9. transitive verb. To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
10. noun. a biased way of looking at or presenting something

    Synonyms: slant

11. noun. a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
12. noun. the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
13. verb. present with a bias

    "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"

    Synonyms: slant, weight

14. verb. fish with a hook
15. verb. seek indirectly

    "fish for compliments"

    Synonyms: fish

16. verb. to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

    Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip

17. verb. move or proceed at an angle

    "he angled his way into the room"

Synonyms

slant, weight, fish, lean, tilt, tip

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in angle:

agnel, angel, galen, genal, glean, lagen, lange, nagel

Common word forms

angled, angler, angles, angling

Words from these letters

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