"Bevel" is a word in ENGLISH
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface;
to slant.
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
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.
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.
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.
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An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."
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Read the complete definitionFormed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
Read the complete definitionNotched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Read the complete definitionTo match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to …
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