corner
Từ điển Collocation
corner noun
1 where two lines/edges meet
ADJ. bottom, top | left/left-hand, right/right-hand | back, front | lower, upper | southern, south-western, etc. | external, outer, outside | inner, inside, internal | opposite | overhanging, projecting | sharp | rounded Smooth rounded corners make cleaning easier. | awkward Make sure the staircase is well lit, with no awkward corners. | extreme, far, very He parked in the far corner of the car park.
CORNER + NOUN cupboard, seat, table The waiter led us to a corner table.
PREP. in a/the ~ Put your address in the top right-hand corner of the page.
2 of roads
ADJ. street There were a lot of young men hanging about on street corners. | sharp, tight It's a rather sharp corner and she took it a little too fast. | blind I hate coming out of that lane because it's a blind corner.
VERB + CORNER round, take, turn As they turned the corner all the parcels slid to one side.
CORNER + NOUN shop the local corner shop
PREP. around/round a/the ~ A white van came round the corner. | at a/the ~ at the corner of West Street and Park Street Turn right at the first corner. | on a/the ~ the shop on the corner of Mount Street
3 place/region
ADJ. quiet He found a quiet corner and got on with his work. | little, small, tiny Welcome to our little corner of Surrey. | distant, far, far-flung, remote a remote corner of Afghanistan | picturesque | dark, gloomy, shadowed, shadowy She sat in a dark corner of the room. | shady, sheltered a cool shady corner of the garden | forgotten, hidden, obscure, odd, secret The box had been tucked away in an odd corner of the attic.
PREP. in a/the ~ She tucked herself away in a corner and read all day.
PHRASES the corner of your mind (figurative) He pushed the thought back into the darkest corner of his mind.
4 difficult situation
ADJ. tight He was used to having to talk his way out of tight corners.
VERB + CORNER back/drive/force sb into | get sb/yourself into They had got her in a corner and there was nothing she could do about it.
PHRASES be in a bit of a corner I'm in a bit of a corner over finding staff for Friday evening.
5 in sport
ADJ. penalty | short
VERB + CORNER award (sb) The referee awarded a corner. | take Beckham took the corner and Scholes headed it into the net. | force, win He put the goalkeeper under pressure and managed to force a corner. | concede James blocked the shot but conceded a corner. | miss | clear
CORNER + NOUN kick
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a place off to the side of an area
he tripled to the rightfield corner
he glanced out of the corner of his eye
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
the corners of a rectangle
- an interior angle formed be two meeting walls; nook
a piano was in one corner of the room
- the intersection of two streets; street corner, turning point
standing on the corner watching all the girls go by
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
the corners of a cube
- a small concavity; recess, recession, niche
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
a corner on the silver market
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; box
his lying got him into a tight corner
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
he knocked off the corners
- a remote area
in many corners of the world they still practice slavery
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone; quoin
v.
- gain control over
corner the gold market
- force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape; tree
- turn a corner
the car corners
Investopedia Financial Terms
Corner
1. The act of securing enough controlling interest or ownership within a single security so that manipulation of price can occur.
2. A rare situation occurring in commodity markets wherein the quantity of underlying securities and commodities available are exceeded by the commitments of delivery quantities on future contracts.
Investopedia Says:
1. When someone is said to have "cornered the market," he or she has gained significant power over the manipulation of quantity and price.
2. In other words, the obligations on future contracts to deliver a particular commodity greatly outweigh the actual amount of the commodity available. For example, a freak tornado sweeping through Hawaii and killing all pineapple crops would result in a corner. The tornado would drastically reduce the quantity of pineapples available for delivery against the delivery obligations of future contracts that were previously created.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
corners|cornered|cornering
syn.: box niche nook quoin recess recession street corner tree turning point
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