'Bevel' definitions:
Definition of 'bevel'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size [syn: bevel, bevel square]
verb
Cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface" [syn: bevel, chamfer]
Definition of 'Bevel'
From: GCIDE
- Bevel \Bev"el\, v. i. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90[deg], as a surface; to slant. [1913 Webster]
- Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Beveled
Definition of 'Bevel'
From: GCIDE
- Bevel \Bev"el\, n. [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of unknown origin. Cf. Bevile.]
- 1. Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bevel'
From: GCIDE
- Bevel \Bev"el\, a.
- 1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90[deg].
- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bevel'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'bevel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ascender,
- astrolabe,
- azimuth circle,
- azimuth compass,
- back,
- bank,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- bevel protractor,
- bevel square,
- beveled,
- bezel,
- bias,
- biased,
- black letter,
- body,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- chute,
- clinometer,
- counter,
- descender,
- easy slope,
- em,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- fleam,
- font,
- gentle slope,
- glacis,
- goniometer,
- grade,
- gradient,
- graphometer,
- groove,
- hanging gardens,
- helicline,
- hillside,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inclined plane,
- italic,
- launching ramp,
- letter,
- ligature,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- minuscule,
- nick,
- pantometer,
- pi,
- pica,
- pitch,
- point,
- print,
- protractor,
- quadrant,
- radiogoniometer,
- ramp,
- roman,
- sans serif,
- scarp,
- script,
- sextant,
- shank,
- shelving beach,
- shoulder,
- side,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slope,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- stamp,
- steep slope,
- stem,
- stiff climb,
- talus,
- theodolite,
- transit,
- transit circle,
- transit instrument,
- transit theodolite,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- upper case