intersecting lines

  • 121quadrant — [1] The gearshift selector indicator marked PRNDL. [2] The V shaped toothed section of a worm and sector steering box. [3] A slotted segmental guide through which an adjusting lever works. It is provided with means for locating the lever in a… …

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  • 122angle — Ⅰ. angle [1] ► NOUN 1) the space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet. 2) a corner, especially an external projection or internal recess. 3) a position from which… …

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  • 123angled — Ⅰ. angle [1] ► NOUN 1) the space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet. 2) a corner, especially an external projection or internal recess. 3) a position from which… …

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  • 124angler — Ⅰ. angle [1] ► NOUN 1) the space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet. 2) a corner, especially an external projection or internal recess. 3) a position from which… …

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  • 125angling — Ⅰ. angle [1] ► NOUN 1) the space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet. 2) a corner, especially an external projection or internal recess. 3) a position from which… …

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  • 126tartan — ► NOUN ▪ a woollen cloth woven in one of several patterns of coloured checks and intersecting lines, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan. ORIGIN perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare… …

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  • 127angle — There have been two distinct words angle in English. The older is now encountered virtually only in its derivatives, angler and angling, but until the early 19th century an angle was a ‘fishing hook’ (or, by extension, ‘fishing tackle’). It… …

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  • 128go — go1 [gō] vi. went, gone, going [ME gon < OE gan, akin to Du gaan, Ger gehen < IE base * ĝhē , orig., to leave behind, go away > Sans jíhītē, (he) goes; the pt. WENT is < WEND replacing OE eode, ME yede] I indicating motion without… …

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