verge

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. (UK, historical) A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
3. An edge or border.
4. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, Western) An edge or border.
5. (figuratively) An edge or border.
6. (obsolete) The phallus.
7. (obsolete) The phallus.
8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
9. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
11. The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
12. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

Sinonieme

edge

brink

border

brim

margin

rim

berm

shoulder

wand

extremity

approach

threshold

sceptre

side

trend

tip

end

🔚

incline

tend

scepter

ledge

limb

verge of a road

baton

cant

fringe

staff

proximity

lip

rod

extend

environs

elongation

boundary

bank

🏦

elongating

drub

lean

decline

bound

bandy

just about

cusp

ingot

inflect

kerb

crook

imminent

conjugate

hem

Vertalings

Rand

bord

borde

beira

accotement

orlo

bordo

Ortgang

berm

όχθη

berme

άκρο

πλαίσιο

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/vɜːd͡ʒ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.