angleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus (“corner, remote area”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos < *h₂eng- (“corner, hirn”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus.

名詞

Diagram of an angle

angle (複数形 angles)

2. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).

   the angle between lines A and B

4. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (または proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.

   The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.

   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

5. A corner where two walls intersect.

   an angle of a building

6. A change in direction.

   The horse took off at an angle.

8. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
   • 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

   • 2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac (page 299)

     For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle. Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."

9. (media) The focus of a news story.
10. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
11. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
12. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral

    His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.

13. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
    • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:

      though but an angle reached him of the stone

14. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.

同意語

• (corner): corner, nook
• (change in direction): swerve
• (vertex): -gon (as per hexagon)
• (viewpoint): opinion, perspective, point of view, slant, view, viewpoint

下位語

派生語

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動詞

angle (三人称単数 現在形 angles, 現在分詞 angling, 過去形および過去分詞形 angled)

1. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.

   The roof is angled at 15 degrees.

2. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.

   The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.

3. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.

   How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?

4. (transitive, cue sports) To hamper (oneself または one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.

語源 2

From Middle English anglen (“to fish”), from Middle English angel (“fishhook”), from 古期英語 angel, angul (“fishhook”), from Proto-Germanic *angulō, *angô (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“something bent, hook”). Cognate with West Frisian angel (“fishing rod, stinger”), Dutch angel (“fishhook”), German Angel (“fishing pole”), German angeln (“to fish, angle”), Icelandic öngull (“fishhook”).

動詞

angle (三人称単数 現在形 angles, 現在分詞 angling, 過去形および過去分詞形 angled)

1. (intransitive, figurative) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
   • 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 276:

     Both the Somerset Central and the Bristol & Exeter were angling for the Cheddar and Wells traffic and on March 15, 1859, the S.C.R. extended its broad-gauge Highbridge-Glastonbury line for another 5¼ miles to Wells.

2. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.

   He must be angling for a pay rise.

派生語

名詞

angle (複数形 angles)

1. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:

     Give me mine angle: we'll to the river there.

   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Vertuminus and Pomona

     A fisher next his trembling angle bears.

アナグラム

• Angel, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, genal, glean, lenga

派生語

• biangle
• decangle (廃れた用法)
• diangle
• octangle
• pentangle
• quadrangle
• quinquangle (古風な用法)
• septangle
• sexangle (廃れた用法)
• triangle

アナグラム

• Angel, Elgan, Galen, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, genal, glean, lenga