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to corner

to corner

4 4.0
To drive a vehicle around a bend, especially at speed
  • verb
  • /ˈkɔrnər/
translation icon : tomar la curva
  • The car can corner smoothly even at high speeds, making it a joy to drive on winding roads.
  • corner hard
  • cars corner
  • corner fast

I've driven a lot of cars the corner well and this is the best.

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Examples

  • It'd be cooler if the thrusters would let us oversteer and corner much more tightly than normal.

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  • Man, this baby must corner like it's on rails !

  • Then Rapid Response corner the van.

  • It is so flat, it corners so flat and it corners so well.

  • I didn't think it cornered too good.

  • When the driver had to corner sharply, they expertly managed the speed to avoid losing control.

  • On the race track, how well a vehicle can corner often determines its competitive edge.

Synonyms

to turn
vsto corner
1.0

Move something so it faces a different direction or side

focuses on negotiating a bend with emphasis on speed and control
to round
vsto corner
88 3.0

Move around something following a curved path

focuses on going around a bend with attention to speed and control

Antonyms

114 2.5

Make something straight and in the right position

Idioms

Very near in place or happening soon

To begin to get better after a difficult time

Put yourself in a difficult situation with no easy way out

1 4.6

Support someone during difficult times

1 7.5

In a difficult situation with no clear way out

Defend your ideas or what you want when others disagree

Phrasal Verbs

To control most of the supply of a product so you can set its price and keep competitors out

1 7.8

To leave someone with few or no good choices

Compounds

63 1.0

The place where two streets meet

A pocket at a corner of a pool table where balls fall

3 2.4

A kick in football taken from the corner after a defender last touched the ball for the attacking team

1 7.9

At an angle across the corner of a street or room

1 3.3

A corner on a road where drivers cannot see around because something blocks the view

chimney corner
  • Archaic
1 6.3

A corner of a room next to a fireplace where people sit to feel warm

A cabinet made to fit into a room corner for storing or showing things

1 4.6

A vertical post at the corner of a building that supports the walls

1 9.9

A place in a church where people sit and loudly say amen during a service

1 7.9

Diagonally across the street from another place

A dim part of a room or place where people cannot see well

A corner covered in cobwebs that looks unused

corner man
  • Archaic
9.9

A man in old minstrel shows who sits at one end of performers and makes jokes with the main speaker

hole-and-corner
  • Archaic
9.3

A secret way of doing things to hide small dishonest acts

hole-in-corner
  • Archaic
9.9

Hidden and small, often secret and unimportant

How Sharply

to swerve
61 2.8
to corner
4 4.0
turn
485 1.0
to drift
331 2.9

Surface Forms

corner infinitive
cornered past
cornered past participle
cornering present participle
corners third person singular

Etymology

To corner (to go round a bend) comes straight from the noun meaning the point where two roads or lines meet. So when a vehicle 'corners' it moves around that pointed place, keeping the idea of turning at an edge.