triangle

noun

1. 1

   A polygon with three sides and three angles.

   Meronyms: angle, side, cathetus, leg, hypotenuse; see also Thesaurus:polygon

   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.

2. 2

   A set square.

3. 3

   A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

4. 4

   A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

5. 5

   A love triangle.

   One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

6. 6

   The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

7. 7

   A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

8. 8

   historicalA frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.

   I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.

   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;

9. 9

   Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

10. 10

    A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.

    After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.

verb

1. 1

   To form or be included in a three-part interaction, e.g., a Karpman drama triangle, such as by being ganged up on by two people or being torn between conflicting demands from two sources.

Forms

plural

triangles

past tense

triangled

past participle

triangled

present participle

triangling

third person singular

triangles