Corner vs. Vertex

Cornernoun

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

Cornernoun

The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.

Cornernoun

The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

Cornernoun

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

Cornernoun

An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.

Cornernoun

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

Cornernoun

A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.

Cornernoun

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

Cornernoun

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

Cornernoun

(baseball) First base or third base.

Cornernoun

(football) A corner kick.

Cornernoun

(American football) A cornerback.

Cornernoun

(boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.

Cornernoun

The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.

Cornernoun

A place where people meet for a particular purpose.

Cornernoun

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

Cornernoun

Someone or something that corns.

Cornerverb

(transitive) To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.

Cornerverb

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

Cornerverb

To get or attempt to get a sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

Cornerverb

To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

Cornerverb

To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

Cornernoun

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

Cornernoun

The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

Cornernoun

An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.

Cornernoun

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

Cornernoun

Direction; quarter.

Cornernoun

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.

Cornernoun

A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.

Cornerverb

To drive into a corner.

Cornerverb

To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

Cornerverb

To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

Cornernoun

a place off to the side of an area;

Cornernoun

the point where two lines meet or intersect;

Cornernoun

an interior angle formed be two meeting walls;

Cornernoun

the intersection of two streets;

Cornernoun

the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;

Cornernoun

a small concavity

Cornernoun

a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;

Cornernoun

a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

Cornernoun

a projecting part that is corner-shaped;

Cornernoun

a remote area;

Cornernoun

(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

Cornerverb

gain control over;

Cornerverb

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

Cornerverb

turn a corner;

Vertexnoun

The highest point of something.

Vertexnoun

(anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.

Vertexnoun

(geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.

Vertexnoun

(mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.

Vertexnoun

(graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.

Vertexnoun

(computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

Vertexnoun

(optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.

Vertexnoun

An interaction point.

Vertexnoun

(astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.

Vertexnoun

A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

Vertexnoun

The top, or crown, of the head.

Vertexnoun

The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.

Vertexnoun

The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.

Vertexnoun

the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure

Vertexnoun

the highest point (of something);

Vertexnoun

the highest point; the top or apex.

Vertexnoun

the crown of the head.

Vertexnoun

each angular point of a polygon, polyhedron, or other figure.

Vertexnoun

a meeting point of two lines that form an angle.

Vertexnoun

the point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.