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# corner

«corner» in Mova's school dictionary: **the point where two sides or edges meet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (corner, corners); verb (corner, corners, cornered — to trap)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A corner is the point where two sides or edges meet. A square has 4 corners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#m1)

2) A corner is the place where two streets meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#m2)

3) A corner of a room is where two walls meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#m3)

4) To corner someone is to trap them so they cannot get away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: corners of shapes counted (a triangle has 3, a square 4, a cube 8; also called vertices); also a place, as in «the store on the corner»; sport: a corner kick in football; everyday life: the reading corner, turn the corner; stories: the cat cornered the mouse; safety: look out for cars at street corners

### examples

- A square has 4 corners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x1)
- How many corners does a cube have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x2)
- She put a flower in each corner of the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x3)
- The shop is on the corner of the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x4)
- A triangle has 3 corners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x5)
- The book is in the corner of the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x6)
- The cat cornered the mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x7)
- He took a corner kick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x8)
- The shrivelled frog still sat in the corner alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/#x9)

### note

In shape problems the count of corners is fixed by the shape (triangle 3, rectangle 4, cube 8). Trap: «a post at each corner» of a closed shape needs as many posts as corners, not one more. A circle has no corners.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a Leeds corner shop, Auntie Bev holds up a magazine: "SOAP STAR'S SECRET HEARTBREAK!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/3/)
- [Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/4/)
- [Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or cornered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/7/)
- [Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/4/)
- [Granny puts conkers in the corners «for the spiders», and the cartoon squirrel remembers every nut it buries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «corner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.