Meaning of Triangle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A polygon with three sides and three angles.
2. A place in the United States:
3. The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.
4. A set square.
   Canada, US
5. A town in Broome County, New York.
6. A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
7. A census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia.
8. A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
9. A community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, seemingly in Labrador.
10. A love triangle.
11. A place in England:
12. A hamlet in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO5401).
13. The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
14. A suburb of Burntwood in Hammerwich parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0507).
15. A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
16. A small village south-west of Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0422).
17. A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
    historical, plural-normally
18. A small town in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe.
19. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
20. Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
21. A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.

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Examples

“The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.”

“One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.”

“I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.”

“But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;”

“After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.”

“I moved to the Triangle two years ago.”

“Many Triangle residents enjoy iced tea.”

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