a place off to the side of an area;"he tripled to the rightfield corner" "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"
the point where two lines meet or intersect;"the corners of a rectangle"
an interior angle formed by two meeting walls;"a piano was in one corner of the room"
the intersection of two streets;"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
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;"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
Verb:
gain control over;"corner the gold market"
force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
turn a corner;"the car corners"
中英词源
corner 角落
词源同horn, 角，引申义转角，角落。
corner
corner: [13] The idea underlying corner is of a ‘projecting part’ or ‘point’. It came via Anglo- Norman corner from Vulgar Latin *cornārium, a derivative of Latin cornū ‘point’ (‘point’ was in fact a secondary sense, developed from an original ‘horn’ – and Latin cornū is related to English horn). Other English descendants of cornū are corn ‘hard skin’, cornea [14], cornet [14], originally a diminutive form, and cornucopia [16], literally ‘horn of plenty’. => cornea, cornet, horn
corner (n.)
late 13c., from Anglo-French cornere (Old French corniere), from Old French corne "horn, corner," from Vulgar Latin *corna, from Latin cornua, plural of cornu "projecting point, end, horn," from PIE *ker- (1) "horn; head, uppermost part of the body" (see horn (n.)). Replaced Old English hyrne. As an adjective, from 1530s. To be just around the corner in the extended sense of "about to happen" is by 1905.
corner (v.)
late 14c., "to furnish with corners," from corner (n.). Meaning "to turn a corner," as in a race, is 1860s; meaning "drive (someone) into a corner" is American English from 1824. Commercial sense is from 1836. Related: Cornered; cornering.
