edge

Meaning

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.

Concepts

edge

border

rim

side

margin

end

brink

hem

brim

fringe

bank

boundary

tip

verge

blade

shore

corner

limit

point

periphery

angle

selvage

lip

sharpness

perimeter

sharpen

curb

kerb

ridge

ledge

frontier

trim

bound

edging

top

advantage

arc

circumference

grind

extremity

brow

marge

whet

limb

list

skirt

butt

rib

selvedge

line

inside corner

seam

limits

outskirts

benefit

gain

profit

prong

vertex

sting

outline

beside

section

hone

base

foot

head start

sideline

abut

adjoin

butt against

butt on

march

inch

vicinity

keenness

pointedness

face

cliff

arris

strop

limbus

rand

frame

tooth

mouth

opening

sword

cover

welt

coast

comb

coping

crest

flange

apex

fee

fold

imposition

obligatory contribution

tax

crust

besides

nearby

relations

relative

outer appearance

surface appearance

beginning

clue

small amount

break line

cessation

finish

pedestal

energy

vigor

vantage

facet

plane

bypass

whetting

enclose

hard shoulder

side of the road

square

terrace

banks

abutment

neb

peak

lead cutting edge

main cutting edge

major cutting

chin

ket

realm

felloe

latus

edge water

fringe water

porch

rime

region

river bank

site

keel

dual

teeth

tail

wing

barrier

cushion

fence

lead

bourn

bourne

parameter

raja

terminal point

terminus ad quem

threshold

flank

run along

bevel

acerbity

acumen

acuteness

crispness

legerity

mentality

perspicaciousness

saltiness

thorniness

acuminate

strap

portion

party

nib

slope

jag

oversew

beach

steep slope

shelf

cutting edge

bottom

sharp

rail

borderline

cause

follow

go along

reason

bluff

rafter

peripherals

margin, rand, brim, border

borders

boundaries

confines

frontiers

delimitation

part

contour

bank of river

canoe

dish

lips

border of a garment

on the side

area

surface

mountain ridge

plunder

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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”)).

Sentences

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 .