Čo znamená corner v angličtine a aká je definícia corner?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť corner výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

corner Význam & definícia

0 the point, area, or line that is formed by the meeting of two lines, surfaces, roads, etc.:
- You go around corners too fast when you're driving!
- There's a postbox on the corner (= the place where the street crosses another).
- Click the icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
- I have a bruise where I hit my leg on the corner of the table.
- They live just around/round the corner (= very close although not in the same road) - so we see them all the time.
- They live in a remote corner of Scotland, miles from the nearest store.
1 If a vehicle corners well, badly, etc., it drives around corners in the stated way:
- It's a powerful car, but it doesn't corner well.
2 to force a person or an animal into a place or situation from which they cannot easily escape:
- Once the police had cornered her in the basement, she gave herself up.
3 the point or angle formed when two lines or surfaces meet:
- the corner of a table
- We could put that chair in the far corner of the room.
- I’ll meet you at the corner of Pine and Market at 7:30.
- They lived in a remote corner of Wyoming.
4 to force a person or animal into a place or situation from which there is no escape:
- [ T ] After a chase, the police cornered him in a hallway.
5 to get control of an area of business so that it is difficult for other companies to be successful in it:
- Small low-cost airlines have cornered the market in cheap flights.

He sat in a dim corner of the waiting-room.
The cows were all standing in one corner of the field.
They stood on the street corner handing out leaflets.
We watched until the car had turned the corner.
The stamp goes in the top right-hand corner of the envelope.
The background connecting all corners of the canvas has been lightly sketched out.
Only certain architectural features and mortuary information were recorded, including several child burials discovered at the corners of the pyramid, likely representing dedicatory sacrifices.
Any process that pushes mid vowels towards the corners of vowel space is thus straightforwardly expressible as element simplification.