| 单词 | angular |
| 释义 | angular (once / 1731 pages) adj Whether it’s a face with strikingly lean bone structure, a tall rectangular building, or something written in Arabic script, anything that is characterized by sharp angles can be described as angular. The word angular describes objects that have sharp angles, such as something with many corners and few soft curves. You’ll also hear it used to describe a person’s face or body. A tall, thin person with prominent bones can be described as angular. The word can be used figuratively to describe movements that are jerky and not smooth, such as the angular dance moves that go with a fast rock song. WORD FAMILYangular: angularest, angularity, angularly+/angle: angled, angler, angles, angling, angular, angulate/angler: anglers/angling: anglings/angularity: angularities/angulate: angulated, angulating, angulation USAGE EXAMPLESShe is tall, thin, with dark hair combed off her angular face. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Above the Space Needle in the team’s angular crest hovered a gold star. Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) Those images of monumental debris—angular masses that appear to emerge from sediment like alien geology—remain transfixing. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1adj having angles or an angular shape Syn|Ant angulate pointed having a point squarehaving four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle angledforming or set at an angle asteroid, star-shapedshaped like a star bicuspid, bicuspidatehaving two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidatedhaving cusps or points equiangularhaving all angles equal isogonichaving or making equal angles rectangularhaving four right angles sharp-angled, sharp-corneredhaving sharp corners square-shapedshaped like a square three-corneredhaving three corners triangularhaving three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle tricuspid, tricuspidatehaving three cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) unicuspidhaving a single cusp or point rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged fathaving an (over)abundance of flesh circular, roundhaving a circular shape allantoid, sausage-shapedshaped like a sausage almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloid, amygdaloidalshaped like an almond annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringedshaped like a ring aspheric, asphericalvarying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape auriform, ear-like, ear-shapedhaving a shape resembling an ear bean-shapedhaving a shape resembling a bean bowfronthaving an outward curving front crescent, crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunarresembling the new moon in shape cycloid, cycloidalresembling a circle cylindric, cylindricalhaving the form of a cylinder disciformhaving a round or oval shape like a disc domed, vaultedhaving a hemispherical vault or dome dome-shapedhaving the shape of a dome egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolaterounded like an egg ellipsoid, ellipsoidal, spheroidalhaving the nature or shape of an ellipsoid hyperboloidalhaving the shape of a hyperboloid lingulate, tongue-shapedshaped like a tongue olive-like, olivelikeresembling an olive parabolic, parabolicalhaving the form of a parabola paraboloidalhaving the shape of a paraboloid pillar-shapedshaped like a cylindrical pillar pinealhaving the form of a pine cone plumlikeresembling a plum fruit rod-shaped, rodlikeresembling a rod rotundspherical in shape tereteespecially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering umbrellalikeresembling an umbrella oblate, pumpkin-shapedhaving the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles prolate, watermelon-shapedhaving the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter coiledcurled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) 2adj measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle angular momentum |
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