edge

Betekenis

Noun

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
3. An advantage.
4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
11. The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.

Verb

1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
3. To win by a small margin.
4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
8. To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
9. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
10. (slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
11. (slang) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologie

From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).

Sinne

The Wisconsin River runs along the southern edge of the village .

When she saw the unknown object bobbing up and down the edge , she was absolutely horrified .