Triangle
A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.
A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
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Triangle Quotations
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven Wright
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Karl Malone
So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.
Sanjay Kumar
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Jules Verne
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
Dan Flavin
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Comte de Lautreamont
The triangle is a foundation to an offense.
Bill Cartwright
Triangle Translations
triangle in Danish is trekant
triangle in Dutch is driehoek, triangel
triangle in Finnish is kolmio
triangle in French is triangle
triangle in German is Dreieck
triangle in Italian is triangolo
triangle in Spanish is triangulo
triangle in Swedish is triangel
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