different between corner vs coigne

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?(?)/
• Hyphenation: cor?ner
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?(?)

Etymology

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of corn? (“projecting point, end, horn”). More at hirn.

Noun

corner (plural corners)

1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
   1. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
   2. The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

   3. An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

   4. (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.

2. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
   • c. 1596-1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7:

     Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
3. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

4. An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
5. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.

6. (heading) Relating to the playing field.
   1. (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

   2. (baseball) First base or third base.

   3. (soccer) A corner kick.
   4. (American football) A cornerback.
   5. (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
   6. (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
7. A place where people meet for a particular purpose.

8. (obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.

Quotations

• 2006, Kelly K. Chappell, Effects of Concept-based Instruction on Calculus Students’ Acquisition of Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skill, in John Dossey, Solomon Friedberg, Glenda Lappan, W. James Lewis (editorial committee), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education VI, page 41,

  Of the students enrolled in a traditional learning environment, 65% (42 of 65) correctly answered that the function ${\displaystyle f(x)=|x-3|+4}$ was not differentiable (or had no derivative) at ${\displaystyle x=3}$.Of those, 55% (23 of 42) argued that a function did not have a derivative at a corner.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (k?n?)

Translations

Verb

corner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)

1. (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.

2. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

3. (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
4. (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

5. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

6. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

7. (transitive) To supply with corners.
   • 1937, Mechanical World and Engineering Record (volume 102, page 208)

     Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades

Translations

Catalan

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis)

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English corner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.nœ?/

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. (soccer) corner kick, corner

Synonyms

• coup de pied de coin

Etymology 2

corne +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ne/

Verb

corner

1. to fold a corner of a page
2. to blow, horn (a cornet or horn)
3. to bellow
4. to honk, beep (a vehicle's horn)
5. to shout from the rooftops

Conjugation

Further reading

• “corner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English corner.

Noun

corner m (plural corner)

1. (soccer) corner
2. (figuratively) difficult situation
3. (economics) market niche in which a company has a monopoly

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cornere, korner, cornare, cornyere
• cornel, cornelle

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cornere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rn?r(?)/, /?k?rne?r(?)/

Noun

corner (plural corneres)

1. A corner or angle; an intersection of two objects where both terminate.
2. The interior or inside of a corner.
3. A refuge or redoubt; a location of safety.
4. A place, especially a faraway or distant one.
5. (rare) A overlook or viewpoint.
6. (rare) The side of a troop or host.

Derived terms

• cornered
• corner stoon

Descendants

• English: corner
• Scots: corner
• Yola: curneale, kurneal

References

• “corn???r, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Old French

Verb

corner

1. to blow; to horn (sound a horn)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Spanish

Noun

corner m (plural corneres)

1. corner kick

English

Etymology

A variant of coign.

Noun

coigne (plural coignes)

1. Alternative form of coign: a keystone; a wedge; (obsolete) a corner or angle, especially of a building.
   • 1843 Robert Henry Horne Orion: an epic poem

     Great figures started from the roof

     And lofty coignes.

   • 1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking":

     From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.

Derived terms

• coigne of vantage

Anagrams

• CEOing, Geonic, geonic

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French coin.

Noun

coigne

1. Alternative form of coyn (“coin, quoin”)

Etymology 2

From Old French cooing.

Noun

coigne

1. Alternative form of coyn (“quince”)

Etymology 3

From Old French coignier.

Verb

coigne

1. Alternative form of coynen