bevel

bevel has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
• n.. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
• a.. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
• a.. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
• v. t.. To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
• v. i.. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90�, as a surface; to slant.
• n.. a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
• n.. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
• v.. cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface"