bevelled

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bev·el

(bĕv′əl)

1. The angle or inclination of a line or surface that meets another at any angle but 90°.

2. Two rules joined together as adjustable arms used to measure or draw angles of any size or to fix a surface at an angle. Also called bevel square.

v. bev·eled, bev·el·ing, bev·els or bev·elled or bev·el·ling

v.tr.

To cut at an inclination that forms an angle other than a right angle: beveled the edges of the table.

v.intr.

To be inclined; slant.

[From Middle French *bevel, bevel square (source of Modern French biveau), from Old French *baivel, from diminutive of baif, open-mouthed, from baer, to gape, from Vulgar Latin *batāre, to yawn, gape; see bay².]

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Translations

مَشْطوب، مَحْفوف، مائِل

zešikmenýzkosený

facetslebet

abgeschrägt

biseauté

sem er meî sniîbrún

fasettslipt

skosený

eğimlimeyilli

倾斜的

bevelled

[ˈbɛv^əld] (British) beveled [ˈbɛv^əld] (US) adj [edge] → biseauté(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bevel

(ˈbevəl) noun

a slanting edge (rather than a sharp corner). A chisel has a bevel on its cutting edge.

ˈbevelled adjective

bevelled glass.

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"Well, I suppose it 'got in' through the bevelled edge of that glass thermometer in the window," he said wearily.

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At the other end of the series we have the cells of the hive-bee, placed in a double layer: each cell, as is well known, is an hexagonal prism, with the basal edges of its six sides bevelled so as to join on to a pyramid, formed of three rhombs.

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In a week or ten days Raffles was to write to me at the Richmond post-office, but for at least a week I should be "on my own." It was not an unpleasant sensation as I leant back in the comfortable hansom, and rather to one side, in order to have a good look at myself in the bevelled mirror that is almost as great an improvement in these vehicles as the rubber tires.