CORNERS

"CORNERS" is a plural of: corner.

Date "CORNERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mining

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Ambush

Noun: camouflage; mimicry; hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette.

Concealment

Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

Adverb: secretly; Adjective: in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark; Adjective:

Conformity

Verb: conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners.

Crosswords: CORNERS

I'm sure it comes as no great suprise to you when I say that there are little corners in everyone which were better off left alone; sicknesses, weaknesses, which-which should never be exposed. (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis)

There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

The Biblical limitations of Man's wanderings are set down as being the four corners of the Earth. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

But there are dark corners; horrors almost impossible to imagine even in our worst nightmares. (Dracula A.D. 1972; writing credit: Don Houghton)

It corners like its on rails. (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)

Mem'ries light the corners of my mind ("The Way We Were"; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

Cutting the corners (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

From standin' on corners and porches just rappin' (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

The dust has been collecting on the corners of my mind (Legend In My Living Room; performing artist: Len)

Silk on the corners of his fancy threads (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

You Can't See Round Corners (1967)

The Four Corners (1957)

Inside Cackle Corners (1951)

From the Four Corners (1941)

Crosby's Corners (1930)

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References

• The World Market for Base Metal Staples in Strips and Fittings for Loose-Leaf Binders and Files, Letter Clips and Corners, and Paper Clips: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Mountain Bike Magazine's Complete Guide to Mountain Biking Skills: Expert Tips on Conquering Curves, Corners, Dips, Descents, Hills, Water Hazards an (reference)

• Brightened Corners (reference)

• Anasazi Pottery: Ten Centuries of Prehistoric Ceramic Art in the Four Corners Country of the Southwestern United States, As Illustrated by the Earl (reference)

• The Southwest's Contrary Land: Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes (reference)

• Darkness at Foxglove Corners (Five Star First Edition Women's Fiction Series) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Brilliant Corners (reference)

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High Tech

• Belkin Outside Corners 1 3/4-inch Width 4-Bag Ivory (reference)

• Fetco International French Modern Wood with Silver Corners Frame 5 X 7 (Walnut) (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Table Edge Guard & Four Corners (reference)

• Cushiony Fireplace Guard with 2 Corners (reference)

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From an overhead angle, a blue bowl of cereal and a sandwich on a plate, sitting on a yellow tablecloth, are shown in opposite corners of the frame. A broken muffin lies between them in the center. The red lettering in the upper left reads: "Eat 3-5 generous servings of whole grain breads and cereals every day". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" May 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Attaching 1/4 square meter grid to pipes by rope. The method did not work and eventually a hole was drilled in the four corners of the grid area, a stainless steel screw was attached, and nylon string was strung between the four corners. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Bisti De Na Zin Wilderness, HooDoos caused by wind and rain carving out other worldy shapes of rocks in Northwestern New Mexico, Four Corners Area. Credit: Unknown.

Photographed circa 1918, while serving as a training ship. Most of her main deck 5-inch guns have been removed, leaving only those in the corners. Credit: NAVY.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942. Note that she still retains her original 4"/50 guns. Other items visible include her whaleboat and gig, engine room hatches, reels for minesweeping cables, .50 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns mounted on the rear corners of her after deckhouse, depth charge tracks and minesweeping gear on her stern. A former sister ship, still fitted as a destroyer, is alongside, with 20mm anti-aircraft machineguns and torpedo tubes visible. Credit: NAVY.

Gothic-style country house, with towers and crenellated battlements and bartizans at corners, in landscape with stream, probably Scotland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Haines Corners from Sunset Park Inn, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Catskill Mountain railway station, Haines Corners, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers camp, Friendly Corners, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cutting metal reinforcing for corners. Screen door construction demonstration. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. (Second Treatise of Government)

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference)

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1931)

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It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there.

The yells of the suffering sinners fill the remotest corners of the vast abyss.

She reached behind one of the boxes that had served as chairs and brought out a stationery box, old and soiled and cracked at the corners.

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Health

The Four Corners area had been in a drought for several years. (references)

In November 1993, the specific hantavirus that caused the Four Corners outbreak was isolated. (references)

In June 1993, a Louisiana bridge inspector who had not traveled to the Four Corners area developed HPS. An investigation was begun. (references)

Business

The Michigan firm Hermann Miller revolutionized office design with the open-office concept and it is once again leading change in Argentina with its line of workstations, low partitions, and rounded corners. (references)

Whereas previously clients would demand American quality, now cost-effectiveness has become the paramount consideration, and companies that cut corners and use inferior standards and products have benefited as a result. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Corruption is pervasive at all levels of the government and there is concern that the law and order situation has deteriorated, with extortion and crime affecting many corners of society. (references)

Rwanda

The killing swiftly spread from Kigali to all corners of the country; between April 6 and the beginning of July, a genocide of unprecedented swiftness left up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead at the hands of organized bands of militia--Interahamwe. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

To qualify for the lower ad valorem MFN tariff rate of 30 percent levied on non-rectangular float glass, exporters often must resort to time-consuming, wasteful procedures such as cutting off one or more corners or cutting one edge in a slanted fashion. (references)

Worker Rights

Samoa

Children frequently are seen vending goods and food on Apia street corners. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "CORNERS": Clinton Corners ♦ cut corners ♦ Five Corners ♦ Four Corners ♦ Hales Corners ♦ Hayt Corners ♦ Hickory Corners ♦ hide in holes and corners ♦ Kelly Corners ♦ Munsons Corners ♦ Porter Corners ♦ prop up street corners ♦ Rockwood Corners ♦ rub away corners ♦ rub off corners ♦ Seven Corners ♦ to cut corners ♦ Twelve Corners. Additional references.

Ending with "CORNERS": all-corners, eye-corners, lid-corners, mouth-corners, shadow-corners, street-corners.

Arabic 

‏قطع المنعطف (cut corners), ‏قطع الزاوية (cut corners). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поотраквам се (become wordly, rub away corners). (various references)

Chinese 

�'� (child's cry, draw back corners of mouth). (various references)

Czech

neznámé konèiny (far-flung corners), řezat zatáèky (cut corners). (various references)

Danish

ulige sidet vinkeljern med afrundede kanter (unequal angles with rounded corners), sejgringsnetvaerk dannes under stoerkningenenten gradvist paa de steder,hvor soejlekrystallerne stoeder sammen i hjoernerne af det stoebte emne eller ved revnedannelse (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), diagonal føring (corner guiding, guide over corners), den mest udbredte sekundaere udvindingsmetode,hvor man anvender vand,er den saakaldte five-spot injektionsmetode,hvor der injiceres i hjoernerne af et kvadrat,medens frafoerslen af olie sker i midten (the most common pattern of secondary recovery using water is the five-spot, with injection at the corners of a square and offtake from the centre), Afrundede hjørner (Rounded corners). (various references)

Dutch

Ronde hoeken (Rounded corners), overhoekse geleiding (corner guiding, guide over corners), ongelijkzijdige hoekstaaf met ronde binnenranden (unequal angles with rounded corners), deze uitscheidingsnetwerken worden tijdens het stollen gevormd,hetzij progressief op het knooppunt van de stengelkristallen in de hoeken van gegoten produkten,hetzij door scheuren (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), bij secundaire winning met behulp van water is de vijfpuntsmethode de meest gebruikelijke;water wordt dan op de hoeken van een vierkant geinjecteerd en de olie in het midden aan de bodem onttrokken (the most common pattern of secondary recovery using water is the five-spot, with injection at the corners of a square and offtake from the centre). (various references)

Finnish

Pyöristetyt kulmat (Rounded corners). (various references)

French

accule. (various references)

German

Ecken (nooks). (various references)

Greek 

η διάταξη εγχύσεως νερού η συνηθέστερα χρησιμοποιούμενη για δευτερεύουσα ανάκτηση,είναι το σύστημα "FIVE-SPOT".αυτό συνίσταται στην τοποθέτησ�, Στρογγυλεμένες γωνίες (Rounded corners), ανισοσκελής χαλυβογωνία με στρογγυλεμένα άκρα (unequal angles with rounded corners), οι ίνες διαφορισμού σχηματίζονται κατά την διάρκεια της στερεοποίησης είτε προοδευτικά στο σημείο τομής των βασαλτικών κόκκων εντός των γ (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts )), οδηγοί σε διαγώνια διάταξη (corner guiding, guide over corners). (various references)

Hungarian

levágja a kanyart (to cut corners), egyszerűsíti az ügyintézést (to cut corners), a föld minden táján (in all corners of the earth), a föld minden pontján (in all corners of the earth). (various references)

Italian

Questi reticoli di segregazione si formano o progressivamente nei punti in cui i cristalli colonnari si incontrano tra loro agli spigoli dei prodotti colati, o per fessurazione (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), nell'iniezione d'acqua il più comune dispositivo di ricupero secondario è il "cinque punti",con iniezione applicata agli di un quadrato,e dal cui centro viene fatto risalire il petrolio, guide in diagonale (corner guiding, guide over corners), Angoli arrotondati (Rounded corners), angolare ad ali ineguali ed a spigoli arrotondati (unequal angles with rounded corners). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

曲曲 (nooks), 曲々 (nooks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くまぐま (nooks). (various references)

Pig Latin

ornerscay

Portuguese

Cantos arredondados (Rounded corners), cantoneira de abas desiguais e cantos arredondados (unequal angles with rounded corners), guias na diagonal (corner guiding, guide over corners), as bainhas de segregação formam-se durante a solidificação ou progressivamente no ponto de encontro dos grãos colunares nos cantos de produtos vazados ou por aparecimento de fendas (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification). (various references)

Russian 

сокращать путь (cut corners), околачиваться (lounge about, prop up street corners). (various references)

Scottish

sruan (shortbread cake having five corners). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hvatati prečicu (cut corners). (various references)

Spanish

cortar camino (cut across, cut corners, take a shortcut), las retículas de segregación se forman durante la solidificación, bien sea progresivamente en el punto en el que se encuentran los granos basálticos en los ángulos de los productos de colada, o bien por fisuración (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), guías en diagonal (corner guiding, guide over corners), esquinas redondeadas (Rounded corners), el dispositivo de inyeccion de agua mas comunmente utilizado para la recuperacion secundaria es el "five-spot",en el que se inyecta el agua en los vertices de un cuadrado y el petroleo brota por el centro, angular de lados desiguales y esquinas redondeadas (unequal angles with rounded corners). (various references)

Swedish

ta genvägar (cut corners), Rundade hörn (Rounded corners), olikflänsig vinkelprofil (unequal angles with rounded corners). (various references)

Turkish

ucuza halletmek (cut corners), kestirme yoldan halletmek (cut corners). (various references)

Ukrainian

скорочувати відстань (cut corners). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "CORNERS": cornerstone, cornerstones. (additional references)

Words ending with "CORNERS": scorners. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CORNERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carnero, Conners, cordner, Corlears, cormers, Cornaert, cornar, cornders, cornerl, cornery, cornes, Cornner, cornor, cornors, Cotner, Horners, kerner, korner. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scorner.

-1 letter: censor, corers, corner, crones, crores, recons, scorer, snorer, sorner.

-2 letters: ceros, cones, corer, cores, corns, corse, crone, crore, onces, recon, scone, score, scorn, senor, snore, sorer.

-3 letters: cero, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, eons, erns, eros, errs, noes, nose, once, ones, orcs, ores, recs, rocs, roes, rose, sone, sore, sorn.

-4 letters: con, cor, cos.

+1 letter: coroners, crooners, crowners, recrowns, resorcin, scorners.

+2 letters: coinsurer, confreres, conjurers, conserver, converser, enforcers, precensor, rancheros, reckoners, recursion, rescoring, resorcins, romancers, schnorrer, scrounger, tricornes, trouncers.

+3 letters: arrogances, carnivores, carronades, coinsurers, conferrals, conferrers, conformers, conquerors, conservers, contraries, contrivers, conversers, converters, convertors, copartners, coprisoner, corianders, cornbreads, corncrakes, cornerways, cornerwise, cornhusker, coronaries, correspond, cotransfer, criterions, ferrocenes, intercrops, intercross, occurrents, precensors, precentors, prescoring, raconteurs, reconfirms, reconquers, reconsider, recontours, reconverts, recordings, recounters, recrossing, recursions, reenforces, reinforces, rencontres, renouncers, resorcinol, rhinoceros, schnorrers, scroungers, scroungier, underscore.