triangle — İngilizce Sözlük

İsim

1. A polygon with three sides and three angles.

   Daha genel terimler

   polygonshape

   Örnekler

   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.

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   • Canada
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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.

   Örnekler

   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.

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   • tarihî
   • plural-normally

   Örnekler

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

   Diğer örnekler (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.

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   bluebottle

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

    Eş anlamlı sözcükler

    wye

    Örnekler

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

Fiil

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.

İsim

1. a three-sided polygon

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   trigontrilateral

   Daha genel terimler

   polygonpolygonal shape

2. something approximating the shape of a triangle

   Daha genel terimler

   shapeform

   Örnekler

   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

   Daha genel terimler

   drafting instrument

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

   Daha genel terimler

   percussion instrumentpercussive instrument