bevel
bevel is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. Gwilt.
- 2.Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
- 3.Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. Shak. A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.
- 4.To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
- 5.To deviate or incline from an angle of 90 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acclivity
- ascent
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bias
- cant
- crookedness
- curve
- declivity
- descent
- devexity
- dip
- distortion
- downhill
- easy
- fall
- gentle
- gradient
- ground
- hill
- inclination
- intersect
- lack
- leaning
- list
- lurch
- obliquity
- parallelism
- rapid
- rise
- rising
- shelving
- slant
- slope
- slopeness
- swag
- talus
- tilt
- tower
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: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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