Noun: triangle
| Singular | triangle |
| Plural | triangles |
Sample Sentences
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Meronyms: angle, side, cathetus, leg, hypotenuse; see also Thesaurus:polygon
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The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:]
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One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy. [2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104]
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I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:]
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But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime; [1868, “The Week”, in The Nation, volume 6, number 149:]
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After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye. [1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147:]
Nouns inflected like triangle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *tréyes
3. From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + -angle. See: Middle English Nouns '
triangle', Latin Nouns '
triangulum'.