triangle — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A polygon with three sides and three angles.

   Oberbegriffe

   polygonshape

   Beispiele

   Meronyms: angle, side, cathetus, leg, hypotenuse; see also Thesaurus:polygon

   The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.

2. A set square.

   Gebrauch

   • Canada
   • US-amerikanischer Gebrauch

3. A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

4. A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

5. A love triangle.

   Beispiele

   One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

6. The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

7. A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

8. A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.

   Gebrauch

   • historisch
   • plural-normally

   Beispiele

   I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;

9. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

   Synonyme

   bluebottle

10. A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.

    Synonyme

    wye

    Beispiele

    After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.

Verb

1. To form or be included in a three-part interaction, e.g., a Karpman drama triangle, such as by being ganged up on by two people or being torn between conflicting demands from two sources.

Substantiv

1. a three-sided polygon

   Synonyme

   trigontrilateral

   Oberbegriffe

   polygonpolygonal shape

2. something approximating the shape of a triangle

   Oberbegriffe

   shapeform

   Beispiele

   the coastline of Chile and Argentina and Brazil forms two legs of a triangle

3. any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles

   Oberbegriffe

   drafting instrument

4. a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle

   Oberbegriffe

   percussion instrumentpercussive instrument