bevel
bevel is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- adjective. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
- adjective. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
- transitive verb. To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
- intransitive verb. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90�, as a surface; to slant.
- noun. a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
- noun. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- verb. cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel
"bevel the surface"
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Common word forms
bevels, beveled, beveler, beveling, bevelled, beveller, bevelling, bevelment
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