edge

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Sinònims

border

rim

side

margin

end

🔚

brink

hem

brim

fringe

bank

🏦

boundary

verge

tip

blade

shore

corner

limit

point

periphery

angle

selvage

sharpen

lip

perimeter

sharpness

bound

frontier

ridge

ledge

trim

edging

kerb

extremity

circumference

advantage

curb

grind

arc

top

🔝

inside corner

list

outskirts

line

marge

seam

whet

selvedge

brow

butt

skirt

limb

rib

limits

butt against

butt on

head start

profit

mouth

adjoin

kerb

abut

base

opening

arris

outline

pointedness

face

coast

section

cover

hone

inch

gain

sideline

benefit

beside

keenness

sting

strop

sword

cliff

limbus

rand

frame

tooth

🦷

curb

foot

🦶

vertex

vicinity

prong

welt

march

square

strap

surface

tail

tax

teeth

🦷

terminal point

terrace

thorniness

threshold

vantage

vigor

part

wing

🪽

bank of river

legerity

small amount

steep slope

surface appearance

terminus ad quem

obligatory contribution

outer appearance

break line

edge water

ket

border of a garment

fringe water

main cutting edge

side of the road

lead cutting edge

major cutting

margin, rand, brim, border

whetting

abutment

acerbity

acumen

acuminate

acuteness

apex

area

banks

barrier

beach

🏖️

beginning

besides

bevel

bluff

borderline

borders

bottom

boundaries

bourn

bourne

bypass

canoe

🛶

cause

cessation

chin

clue

comb

confines

contour

coping

crest

crispness

crust

cushion

cutting edge

delimitation

dish

dual

enclose

energy

facet

fee

felloe

fence

finish

flange

flank

fold

follow

frontiers

go along

hard shoulder

imposition

jag

keel

latus

lead

lips

👄

mentality

mountain ridge

nearby

neb

nib

on the side

oversew

parameter

party

🥳

peak

pedestal

peripherals

perspicaciousness

plane

plunder

porch

portion

rafter

rail

raja

realm

reason

region

relations

relative

rime

river bank

run along

saltiness

sharp

shelf

site

slope

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: egge

Heretat de anglès antic: eċġ

Cognat amb neerlandès: egge

Cognat amb alemany: Ecke

Cognat amb suec: egg

Cognat amb noruec: egg

Cognat amb gal·lès: hogi

Cognat amb llatí: aciēs

Cognat amb letó: ašs

Cognat amb grec antic: ἀκίς

Cognat amb persa: آس

In summary

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”)).

Frases

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 .