noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
equilateral triangle
eternal triangle
isosceles triangle
right triangle
right-angled triangle
scalene triangle
triangle (= a shape with three sides )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
equilateral
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These two lie close together, and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum.
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The Vesica piscis On the diameter of a circle an equilateral triangle is described centrally such that its apex just touches the circumference.
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The tetrahedron has four faces, each an equilateral triangle .
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A regular icosahedron: a solid having 20 plane faces, all of them equilateral triangles . 3.
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The simplest polygon is the equilateral triangle which echoes itself at 60° intervals.
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The equilateral triangle already proclaimed the magic of 3.
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Three superimposed equilateral triangles at 40° intervals form a star nonagon.
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The regular hexagon comprises six radial equilateral triangles .
large
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Alpha, or Hamal, forms a large triangle with Beta and Gamma Andromedæ.
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The toast, buttered and sugared and sprinkled with cinnamon, was cut into large triangles and laid out on platters.
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Saunders' block was flanked with attenuated brick turrets, each peaked with a red wooden globe atop a large blue triangle .
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An older man is walking a girl with a pony tail through a pattern that forms a large triangle .
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Place one half on top of the other to form one large triangle , and stick together with sticky tape.
small
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The base of the fragmentary design comprises a half-boss which rests on a small triangle .
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There is a small triangle in the centre.
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Just fold a square of white paper into four and cut neat small triangles in the folded edges.
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Villagers are especially concerned for the safety of children and youngsters who play on a small triangle of grass underneath the bypass.
■ NOUN
love
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All that, and there's still the Baldwin love triangle and Jim and Gwen's bust-up to come.
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There is nothing remarkable about the plot, which revolves around the classic love triangle .
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Alex and Thrash in bizarre love triangle !
■ VERB
form
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The centres of any three adjacent spheres form a triangle .
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An older man is walking a girl with a pony tail through a pattern that forms a large triangle .
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Alpha, or Hamal, forms a large triangle with Beta and Gamma Andromedæ.
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The continuous lines then come straight out from the pole and are pegged to the ground forming a triangle shape.
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Zeta, the trio, and M48 form a triangle , and are in the same × 7 field.
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Fold over at right angles to form a triangle .
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Closure of the arrow to form a triangle transforms it into a symbol.
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Her cat's nose was long, flat, progressing to form a finely moulded triangle on her upper lip.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
love triangle
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Alex and Thrash in bizarre love triangle!
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All that, and there's still the Baldwin love triangle and Jim and Gwen's bust-up to come.
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There is nothing remarkable about the plot, which revolves around the classic love triangle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His nose was a small triangle on his wide face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A woman sells buttons with pink triangles.
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Alpha, or Hamal, forms a large triangle with Beta and Gamma Andromedæ.
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He studied the dark triangle between her legs.
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Kubota claims performance ratings of between 200,000 and 1.2m shaded triangles per second and 350,000 to 2m three-dimensional vectors per second.
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Second, the welfare cost of monopoly is greater than the deadweight burden triangle itself.
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The Sander Parallelogram distorts the apparent dimensions of an isosceles right angled triangle .
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They represent a triangle of forces, in which the movement of any one point affects the other two.
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We had to make chains of triangles which would be connected to chains in other countries.