bevel

1. 1.

   cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel

   “bevel the surface”

   Synonymschamfer

   Broadercut

   Narrowermitercone

Other forms of bevel

plural

bevels·

past tense or participle

bevelled

present participle

bevelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bevel

What does bevel mean?

bevel means "two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bevel?

bevel has 2 syllables: bev-el. The stress falls on "bev". In IPA it is /ˈbɛvəl/.

What is another word for bevel?

Close synonyms include cant, chamfer, bevel square, chamfer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bevel a common word?

bevel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.