angles
angles is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alongside
- angle
- ant
- azimuth
- bolt
- circle
- cliff
- cock
- coextension
- coextensive
- correlation
- elevation
- end
- endwise
- equidistance
- equidistant
- erect
- erection
- erectness
- have
- intersect
- its
- laterally
- line
- normal
- one
- orthogonal
- parallel
- parallelism
- perpendicular
- perpendicularity
- plumb
- plummet
- precipice
- raise
- rampant
- rear
- rectangular
- render
- right
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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