corner

corner is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
2. noun. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
3. noun. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
4. noun. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
5. noun. Direction; quarter.
6. noun. The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
7. transitive verb. To drive into a corner.
8. transitive verb. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
9. transitive verb. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
10. noun. the intersection of two streets

    "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"

11. noun. (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

    Synonyms: quoin

12. noun. an interior angle formed by two meeting walls

    "a piano was in one corner of the room"

    Synonyms: nook

13. noun. the point where two lines meet or intersect

    "the corners of a rectangle"

14. noun. a place off to the side of an area

    "he tripled to the rightfield corner"

    "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"

15. noun. a remote area

    "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"

16. noun. the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect

    "the corners of a cube"

17. noun. a projecting part where two sides or edges meet

    "he knocked off the corners"

18. noun. a small concavity

    Synonyms: niche, recess, recession

19. noun. a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible

    "his lying got him into a tight corner"

    Synonyms: box

20. noun. a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade

    "a corner on the silver market"

21. verb. turn a corner

    "the car corners"

22. verb. force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

    Synonyms: tree

23. verb. gain control over

    "corner the gold market"

Synonyms

quoin, nook, niche, recess, recession, box, tree

Common word forms

corners, cornered, cornerer, cornering

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