corner
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹnɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: cor‧ner
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.
Noun
editcorner (plural corners)
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- Shining a light in the dark corners of the mind. I took a trip out to his corner of town.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
- Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
- 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248:
- Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- 1974 April 6, Sheri, “Women's Oppression and Separatism vs. Gay Liberation for All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression.
- (heading) Relating to the playing field.
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- There are runners on the corners with just one out.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- Welcome to our English corner.
- (obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.
Quotations
edit- 2006, Kelly K. Chappell, Effects of Concept-based Instruction on Calculus Students’ Acquisition of Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skill, in John Dossey, Solomon Friedberg, Glenda Lappan, W. James Lewis (editorial committee), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education VI, page 41,
- Of the students enrolled in a traditional learning environment, 65% (42 of 65) correctly answered that the function was not differentiable (or had no derivative) at .Of those, 55% (23 of 42) argued that a function did not have a derivative at a corner.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- around the corner
- at the corner
- back oneself into a corner
- boundary corner
- box oneself into a corner
- cater-corner
- catty-corner
- chimney-corner
- chimney corner
- coffin corner
- cornerback
- corner bath
- corner boy
- corner bracket
- corner case
- corner flag
- corner forward
- corner infield
- corner infielder
- corner kick
- corner man
- corner office
- corner of the eye
- corner of the mouth
- corner pub
- corner quote
- corner shop
- corner solution
- cornerstone
- corner-stone
- corner store
- corner throw
- corner time
- corner tooth
- cornerways
- cornerwise
- cow corner
- Coxs Corner
- cum corner
- cut corners
- cut off a corner
- Dutch corner
- elephant in the corner
- fight one's corner
- happy corner
- hole-and-corner
- hospital corner
- hot corner
- Hyde Park Corner
- in a corner
- keystone corner
- kitty-corner
- kitty corner
- kitty wants a corner
- long corner
- nook and corner
- out of the corner of one's eye
- paint oneself into a corner
- penalty corner
- pick corners
- pincushion corner
- puss in the corner
- pussy wants a corner
- Pye Corner
- round the corner
- Scotch Corner
- short-corner
- short corner
- soft corner
- street corner, streetcorner
- Tattenham Corner
- turn a corner
- turn the corner
Descendants
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Verb
editcorner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:
- In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
- The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.
- It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- 1937, Mechanical World and Engineering Record, volume 102, page 208:
- Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editcorner (plural corners)
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- 1982, Frederic Cople Jaher, The Urban Establishment, page 483:
- Big firms received rebates from railroads in which they owned stock, paid off city officials in order to obtain a low-cost water supply, and fought meat-inspection laws, and meat packers speculated in pork and beef corners.
Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcorner m (plural corners)
- snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis)
- Synonyms: corrinyoler, pomerola
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “corner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcorner m (plural corners, diminutive cornertje n)
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcorner m (plural corners)
- (soccer) corner kick, corner
- Synonym: coup de pied de coin
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editVerb
editcorner
- to fold a corner of a page
- to blow, horn (a cornet or horn)
- to bellow
- to honk, beep (a vehicle's horn)
- to shout from the rooftops
Conjugation
editinfinitive | simple | corner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cornant /kɔʁ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | corné /kɔʁ.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | corne /kɔʁn/ |
cornes /kɔʁn/ |
corne /kɔʁn/ |
cornons /kɔʁ.nɔ̃/ |
cornez /kɔʁ.ne/ |
cornent /kɔʁn/ |
imperfect | cornais /kɔʁ.nɛ/ |
cornais /kɔʁ.nɛ/ |
cornait /kɔʁ.nɛ/ |
cornions /kɔʁ.njɔ̃/ |
corniez /kɔʁ.nje/ |
cornaient /kɔʁ.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cornai /kɔʁ.ne/ |
cornas /kɔʁ.na/ |
corna /kɔʁ.na/ |
cornâmes /kɔʁ.nam/ |
cornâtes /kɔʁ.nat/ |
cornèrent /kɔʁ.nɛʁ/ | |
future | cornerai /kɔʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
corneras /kɔʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
cornera /kɔʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
cornerons /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
cornerez /kɔʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
corneront /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | cornerais /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
cornerais /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
cornerait /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
cornerions /kɔʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
corneriez /kɔʁ.nə.ʁje/ |
corneraient /kɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | corne /kɔʁn/ |
cornes /kɔʁn/ |
corne /kɔʁn/ |
cornions /kɔʁ.njɔ̃/ |
corniez /kɔʁ.nje/ |
cornent /kɔʁn/ |
imperfect2 | cornasse /kɔʁ.nas/ |
cornasses /kɔʁ.nas/ |
cornât /kɔʁ.na/ |
cornassions /kɔʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cornassiez /kɔʁ.na.sje/ |
cornassent /kɔʁ.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | corne /kɔʁn/ |
— | cornons /kɔʁ.nɔ̃/ |
cornez /kɔʁ.ne/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “corner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English corner.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcorner m
- (soccer) corner
- (figurative) difficult situation
- (economics) market niche in which a company has a monopoly
References
edit- ^ corner in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman corner, cornere (and its dissimilatory variant cornel), from corne (“horn”); compare Medieval Latin cornārius.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcorner (plural corneres)
- A corner or angle; a terminal intersection of two objects.
- The inside of a corner; the space inside a corner.
- A refuge or redoubt; a location of safety.
- A place or locale, especially a distant one.
- (rare) An overlook or viewpoint.
- (rare) The side of a troop or host.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “cornẹ̄̆r, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.
- “cornēl, -elle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
editVerb
editcorner
Conjugation
editThis verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | corner | avoir corné | |||||
gerund | en cornant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | cornant | ||||||
past participle | corné | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | corn | cornes | corne | cornons | cornez | cornent |
imperfect | cornoie, corneie, cornoe, corneve | cornoies, corneies, cornoes, corneves | cornoit, corneit, cornot, corneve | corniiens, corniens | corniiez, corniez | cornoient, corneient, cornoent, cornevent | |
preterite | cornai | cornas | corna | cornames | cornastes | cornerent | |
future | cornerai | corneras | cornera | cornerons | corneroiz, cornereiz, cornerez | corneront | |
conditional | corneroie, cornereie | corneroies, cornereies | corneroit, cornereit | corneriiens, corneriens | corneriiez, corneriez | corneroient, cornereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | corn | corz | cort | cornons | cornez | cornent |
imperfect | cornasse | cornasses | cornast | cornissons, cornissiens | cornissoiz, cornissez, cornissiez | cornassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | corne | — | cornons | cornez | — |
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English corner or French corner.
Noun
editcorner n (plural cornere)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) corner | cornerul | (niște) cornere | cornerele |
genitive/dative | (unui) corner | cornerului | (unor) cornere | cornerelor |
vocative | cornerule | cornerelor |
Spanish
editNoun
editcorner m (plural corneres)
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