corner的意思|corner的解释-里氏词典

corner ['kɔrnɚ]

n. 角落, 转角, 窘境

vt. 迫至一隅, 垄断, 使陷入绝境

vi. 相交成角, 垄断

[计] 边角

[医] 侧门牙(马)

[经] 囤积居奇, 垄断市场

He fell and hit his head on the corner of a box.
他跌倒时,头碰到箱子的一角。
By defeating their main competitor this firm has cornered the wheat market.
这家公司击败了主要的竞争对手而垄断了整个小麦市场。
She'll need luck to get out of a tight corner like that.
她要靠运气才能摆脱那样的困境。

corner

[ noun ]

a place off to the side of an area

<noun.location>

he tripled to the rightfield corner

the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean

the point where two lines meet or intersect

<noun.location>

the corners of a rectangle

an interior angle formed by two meeting walls

<noun.artifact>

a piano was in one corner of the room

the intersection of two streets

<noun.artifact>

standing on the corner watching all the girls go by

the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect

<noun.location>

the corners of a cube

a small concavity

<noun.shape>

a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade

<noun.state>

a corner on the silver market

a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible

<noun.state>

his lying got him into a tight corner

a projecting part where two sides or edges meet

<noun.object>

he knocked off the corners

a remote area

<noun.location>

in many corners of the world they still practice slavery

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

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

gain control over

<verb.social>

corner the gold market

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

<verb.motion>

tree

turn a corner

<verb.motion>
the car corners

Corner \Cor"ner\ (k?r"n?r), n. [OF. corniere, cornier, LL.
cornerium, corneria, fr. L. cornu horn, end, point. See
{Horn}.]
1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle,
either external or internal.

2. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls
which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

3. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center;
hence, any quarter or part.

From the four corners of the earth they come.
--Shak.

4. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way
place; a nook.

This thing was not done in a corner. --Acts xxvi.
26.

5. Direction; quarter.

Sits the wind in that corner! --Shak.

6. The state of things produced by a combination of persons,
who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or
species of property, which compels those who need such
stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a
corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant]

{Corner stone}, the stone which lies at the corner of two
walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially,
the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an
edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or
indispensable. ``A prince who regarded uniformity of faith
as the corner stone of his government.'' --Prescott.

{Corner tooth}, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's
mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each
side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle
teeth and the tushes.

Corner \Cor"ner\, n. (Association Football) [More fully {corner
kick}.]
A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post,
allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball
behind his own goal line.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cornered} (-n?rd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cornering}.]
1. To drive into a corner.

2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be
able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the
shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

In some distant corner of the mainland an older, more distinctive Greece, a Greece in touch not with its classical roots but simply its recent past, had to exist. It does.
WITH CHRISTMAS just around the corner, marketers are fretting about how big a toll the stock market crash will take on consumer spending.
The hulk of an abandoned car sits on one corner of the playing area. Squat, dilapidated homes line one side of the street.
He said it would cost only $700 to connect to the corner tap, and that district commissioners offered to come out on their own time and dig the ditch.
Wheelock said the cleaning revealed pink hues not previously seen in the painting, and an X-ray examination by gallery conservators showed that Rubens had painted over one figure in the lower right-hand corner of the scene.
More political attacks on state welfare systems may be just around the corner, public policy observers predict, if the economy worsens and state budget-cutters become more desperate.
From the water, the four cupolas on the corner of the building create the impression of a floating palace.
If times were good, farmers kept their mouths shut, knowing that another drought or something bad was right around the corner.
The man was told to take the money to a street corner in Boston's Mattapan section.
Its mere threat to counter any squeeze by un-scheduled sales of additional paper should render attempts by big operators to corner a particular issue too risky.
Officials in Nucla and Naturita, in a remote corner of southwest Colorado, said they hoped to make the shoot an annual affair.
A closed-circuit TV set sat unused in a corner.
While Pepsi has Mr. Tyson in its corner, Coke has another media star waiting in the wings to plug Diet Coke: Roger Rabbit, the animated character from the new cartoon-and-live action movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Southern California residents Ray Hernandez and his wife, Tina, grabbed a corner spot of the bleachers.
The Park Police have a stable located right around the corner, and I always thought they didn't want you fishing there.
"You have one group of investors that sees inflation tapping at the door," says Frank Kelly, an E.F. Hutton trader, "while the other sees recession around the corner."
At stake, rather, is whether they will for years be plagued with instability and poverty, or instead achieve a modest but productive place in the north-eastern corner of Europe. First, their successes.
At a nearby corner, they swerve perilously close to a listing apartment house, oblivious to any danger.
And the donor pool is definitely not increasing." After Tuesday, American businesses, from the loftiest Fortune 500 company to the smallest corner grocery, won't get just a warning the first time they're caught employing illegal immigrants.
A corner flips forward to reveal the Israeli banner on the reverse side.
It started near the front door and before long wound around the corner.
The service was interrupted when mourners spotted Israelis armed with rifles and tear gas at a nearby street corner.
He does his paperwork at a small writing table in the corner.
In a corner booth at the 77 Lounge in Chadron, Neb., far from any interstate, owner Evva Gore whips out a freight bill to show a visitor just how fast her trucking costs are climbing.
It is always interesting, partly because it entices you to believe that the best lines and situations must be just around the corner.
The church dominates the southwest corner of the mesa.
You can't tell the judge, `This guy is invading my corner.'
James D. Robinson III, who runs American Express Co., lately has devoted a lot of time to a single corner of his vast and far-flung travel and financial-services empire: Shearson Lehman Bros.
On slowing down - say, for a corner - it down-shifts almost imperceptibly into third at around 40 mph (64 kmh) and into second at 30 mph (48 kmh). All of this makes the XM SD drive more like a petrol-engined car than a typical diesel.
At the bottom-left corner are the invading Mongol hordes selling Russian womanhood into slavery.

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