corner

Definitions


[ˈkɔːnə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a place or angle where two sides or edges meet
(e.g: Jan sat at one corner of the table)

- a location or area, especially one regarded as secluded or remote
(e.g: fountains are discovered in quiet corners and sleepy squares)

- a position in which one dominates the supply of a particular commodity
(e.g: London doesn't have a corner on film festivals)

- a difficult or awkward situation
(e.g: I didn't wait for the prosecutor to try to get me in a corner)

- a place kick taken by the attacking side from a corner of the field after the ball has been sent over the byline by a defender
(e.g: he put a corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area)

- each of the diagonally opposite ends of the ring, where a contestant rests between rounds
(e.g: when the bell sounded he turned to go back to his corner)

- a triangular cut from the hind end of a side of bacon


Phrases:
- around the corner
- fight one's corner
- in every corner
- in someone's corner
- out of the corner of one's eye

Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin cornu ‘horn, tip, corner’


[ˈkɔːnə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- force (a person or animal) into a place or situation from which it is hard to escape
(e.g: the man was eventually cornered by police dogs)

- control (a market) by dominating the supply of a particular commodity
(e.g: whether they will corner the market in graphics software remains to be seen)

- (of a vehicle) go round a bend in a road
(e.g: no squeal is evident from the tyres when cornering fast)


Phrases:
- around the corner
- fight one's corner
- in every corner
- in someone's corner
- out of the corner of one's eye

Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin cornu ‘horn, tip, corner’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries