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Exact Match:

corner

the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"

(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

an interior angle formed be two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room"

the point where two lines meet or intersect; "the corners of a rectangle"

a place off to the side of an area; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "he glanced out of the corner of his eye"

a remote area; "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"

the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; "the corners of a cube"

a projecting part where two sides or edges meet; "he knocked off the corners"

a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner"

a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; "a corner on the silver market"

turn a corner; "the car corners"

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

gain control over; "corner the gold market"

Synonyms:

• L,
• a corner on,
• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• absorb,
• alcove,
• angle,
• apex,
• asylum,
• bay,
• bear raid,
• bend,
• bias,
• bifurcation,
• bight,
• blind alley,
• bolt-hole,
• bother,
• bottle up,
• box,
• branching off,
• bull raid,
• buy,
• buy back,
• buy in,
• buy into,
• buy off,
• buy on credit,
• buy up,
• cache,
• cant,
• capture,
• carrel,
• catch,
• chevron,
• circuitousness,
• coin,
• collar,
• complete a purchase,
• concealment,
• corner in,
• cornering,
• cove,
• cover,
• covert,
• coverture,
• crank,
• cranny,
• crook,
• crotchet,
• cubby,
• cubbyhole,
• cubicle,
• cul-de-sac,
• curve,
• dark corner,
• dead end,
• dead-end street,
• deadlock,
• declination,
• deflection,
• den,
• departure,
• detour,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviation,
• deviousness,
• digression,
• dilemma,
• discursion,
• disturb,
• divagation,
• divarication,
• divergence,
• diversion,
• dogleg,
• double,
• double a point,
• drift,
• drifting,
• dugout,
• elbow,
• ell,
• engross,
• engrossment,
• errantry,
• exclusive possession,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• exorbitation,
• extremity,
• fix,
• forestall,
• forestallment,
• fork,
• foxhole,
• funk hole,
• furcation,
• go around,
• hairpin,
• halt,
• hideaway,
• hideout,
• hidey hole,
• hiding,
• hiding place,
• hog,
• hole,
• hook,
• impasse,
• indirection,
• inflection,
• inglenook,
• jam,
• knee,
• lair,
• make a buy,
• manipulation,
• monopolization,
• monopolize,
• monopoly,
• nab,
• niche,
• nook,
• obliquity,
• oriel,
• pererration,
• pickle,
• pitchhole,
• plight,
• point,
• procure,
• purchase,
• put out,
• quoin,
• raid,
• rambling,
• rebuy,
• recess,
• recession,
• refuge,
• regrate,
• repurchase,
• retreat,
• rigging,
• roomlet,
• round,
• round a bend,
• round a corner,
• round a point,
• sanctuary,
• scrape,
• secret place,
• seize,
• sheer,
• shift,
• shifting,
• shifting course,
• shifting path,
• skew,
• slant,
• snuggery,
• stalemate,
• stand,
• standstill,
• stash,
• stop,
• straying,
• sweep,
• swerve,
• swerving,
• swinging,
• tack,
• take it all,
• tie up,
• trap,
• tree,
• trouble,
• turn,
• turn a corner,
• turning,
• twist,
• undercovert,
• variation,
• veer,
• vertex,
• wandering,
• warp,
• wash sale,
• washing,
• yaw,
• zag,
• zig,
• zigzag