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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 fr [..]
Source: etymonline.com

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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, ho [..]
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point where the edges of a solid figure meet. • also called a vertex.
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Corner [S]The angle of a house ( Job 1:19 ) or a street ( Proverbs 7:8 ). "Corners" in Nehemiah 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Numbers [..]
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a place off to the side of an area; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean" gain control over; &am [..]
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The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). "Corners" in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the "corner [..]
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The "corner" of the field was not allowed, (Leviticus 19:9) to be wholly reaped. It formed a right of the poor to carry off what was so left, and this was a part of the maintenance from the [..]
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Definitions (2) 1. A situation in which a single investor, related group of investors, or company has a controlling interest in the stock of a particular company. Because the investor has "corner [..]
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The juncture of two edges of the cover of a book. Corners can be rounded, square, or mitered and are sometimes covered in contrasting material, such as leather or heavier cloth, for protection and dec [..]
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(1) Securing such relative control of a commodity or security that its price can be manipulated; (2) In the extreme situation, obtaining contracts requiring the delivery of more commodities or securit [..]
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(n) a place off to the side of an area(n) the point where two lines meet or intersect(n) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls(n) the intersection of two streets(n) the point where three areas [..]
Source: beedictionary.com

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The condition of the market with respect to a commodity which has been largely bought up, in order to create a virtual monopoly and enhance its market price; as a salt-corner, a corner in pork, etc. T [..]
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Driven into a corner. Placed where there is no escape; driven from all subterfuges and excuses.
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Tattersall’s horsestores and betting-rooms, Knightsbridge Green. They were once at the corner of Hyde Park.
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See Fillet (interior corner) or Round (exterior corner)
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An angle made between two boundary lines for the purpose of establishing land survey reference points. Specifically, Oregon statutes define the term to include a section, one-quarter section, Donation [..]
Source: oregonlaws.org

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n.(1) "corner," s.v. corner sb.\1 OED. KEY: corner@n1
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n1 4 corner 4
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A somewhat abstract concept for when relatively little interactive content efficiently fill much of the vast potential of a game's design space. By designing elements that are as different as pos [..]
Source: critical-gaming.com

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n. - The ends of the playing field, where the screens stop scrolling. The corner is the furthest to the side you can go. Some games do not have corners and in many 3-D games there are various walls that indicate the end of a stage, but are not referred to as Corners.
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dead ball restart situation where a player touches the ball last and it travels over their own goal line.
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The point of meeting of the edges of a solid, or of two sides of a plane figure.
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Juncture of intersecting lines; locative point.
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  Juncture of intersecting lines; locative point.
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The inverse of an arête; like the crease of an open book. The most beautiful example in the UK is Dinas Cromlech, cleaved at 90 degrees. A really deep groove is indistinguishable from a corner.
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