angled

1. 1
   adjective

   Positioned so as to form an angle rather than running straight.

   The architect designed an angled roof to help rain slide off.

   The shelves were angled slightly to display the books face-out.

   Similarslanted, sloping, tilted, inclined, oblique

   Oppositestraight, level, flat

2. 2
   adjective

   Forming an angle of a particular kind, whether sharp, shallow, or square.

   The cliffs rose in a series of sharply angled ledges.

   Engineers gave the solar panels a steeply angled mount to catch the winter sun.

   Similarsloping, inclined, slanted

   Note

   Here the word usually serves as the second half of a compound, as in a right-angled corner, where the first element names the angle. Unlike the plain 'set at an angle' meaning, which says only that something departs from straight, this sense specifies the kind of angle. It does not take more or most, since a corner is either right-angled or it is not. An adverb such as sharply can still describe the angle itself.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of angle.

   The photographer angled her camera toward the sunset.

   He angled the antenna until the signal finally cleared.

   Note

   The form does double duty for meanings that have little to do with each other. She angled the mirror means she tilted it, but he angled all morning means he fished with hook and line. The figurative use, she angled for an invitation, means coaxing someone toward an offer. The tilting sense needs an object, while the fishing sense stands alone. All of them share one form for the simple past, the perfect (has angled) and the passive (was angled).

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