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A place in the United States:
The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.
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A place in the United States:
A town in Broome County, New York.
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A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia.
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A community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, seemingly in Labrador.
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A place in England:
A hamlet in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO5401).
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A place in England:
A suburb of Burntwood in Hammerwich parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0507).
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A place in England:
A small village south-west of Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0422).
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A small town in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe.
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Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A polygon with three sides and three angles.
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Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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A set square.
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Usage: Canada, US
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
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Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A love triangle.
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The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
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Qualifier: systemics
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A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
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A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
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Usage: historical, plural-normally
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Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
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Synonyms: bluebottle
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A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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Synonyms: wye
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a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percussion instrument, percussive instrument
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any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
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a small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries
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Synonyms: Triangulum
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Broader terms: constellation
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a three-sided polygon
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Synonyms: trigon, trilateral
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Broader terms: polygon, polygonal shape
Narrower terms: acute triangle, acute-angled triangle, equilateral triangle, equiangular triangle, isosceles triangle, oblique triangle, obtuse triangle, obtuse-angled triangle, right triangle, right-angled triangle, scalene triangle, wedge, wedge shape, cuneus
noun
something approximating the shape of a triangle
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Broader terms: shape, form
History
From triangle; in North Carolina from being a triangular region.
PIE word *tréyes 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.
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