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cor·ner Audio Help (kôr'nər) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle: the four corners of a rectangle.
2. The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner: sat by myself in the corner; the corner of one's eye.
3. Sports Any of the four angles of a boxing or wrestling ring where the ropes are joined.
4. Baseball Either side of home plate, toward or away from the batter.
5. A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
6. Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas" (George B. Merry).
The place where two roads or streets join or intersect.
1. Sports Any of the four angles of a boxing or wrestling ring where the ropes are joined.
2. Baseball Either side of home plate, toward or away from the batter.
3. A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
4. Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas" (George B. Merry).
A threatening or embarrassing position from which escape is difficult: got myself into a corner by boasting.
A remote, secluded, or secret place: the four corners of the earth; a beautiful little corner of Paris.
A part or piece made to fit on a corner, as in mounting or for protection.
1. A speculative monopoly of a stock or commodity created by purchasing all or most of the available supply in order to raise its price.
2. Exclusive possession; monopoly: "Neither party . . . has a corner on all the good ideas" (George B. Merry).

v. cor·nered, cor·ner·ing, cor·ners

v. tr.

To furnish with corners.
To place or drive into a corner: cornered the thieves and captured them.
To form a corner in (a stock or commodity): cornered the silver market.

v. intr.

To come together or be situated on or at a corner.
To turn, as at a corner: a truck that corners poorly.

adj.

Located at a street corner: a corner drugstore.
Designed for use in a corner: a corner table.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French corne, corner, horn, from Vulgar Latin *corna, from Latin cornua, pl. of cornū, horn, point; see ker-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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