edge

Senso (Inglese)

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. (also, figuratively) 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. (attributive, often) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.

Verb

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

Concetti

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Traduzioni

bord

Rand

Kante

borde

orilla

borda

Schneide

rand

bordure

margen

côté

kant

canto

Pronunciato come (IPA)

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Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: egge

Ereditato da inglese antico: eċġ

Affine olandese: egge

Affine tedesco: Ecke

Affine svedese: egg

Affine norvegese: egg

Affine gallese: hogi

Affine latino: aciēs

Affine lettone: ašs

Affine greco antico: ἀκίς

Affine persiano: 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”)).

Frasi

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

Il fiume Wisconsin corre lungo il bordo meridionale del villaggio.

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

Quando ha visto l'oggetto sconosciuto che abbracciava su e giù per il bordo, era assolutamente inorridita.