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edge
/ɛd͡ʒ/
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What does edge mean?
noun
- The boundary line of a surface.
- 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.
- An advantage.
More meanings (27)
noun
- (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.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
- Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.
- Notation for an edge rusher.
verb
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (figuratively, slang) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
proper noun
- A surname.
- Microsoft Edge.
- A village in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8409).
- A hamlet in Pontesbury parish, south of Yockleton, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3908).
- An unincorporated community in Brazos County, Texas, United States, founded by Dr. John Edge.
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IPA pronunciation
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The dawn in the east looked like the light from some great fire that was burning under the edge of the world.
And then, with a renewed horror, I saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit.
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Anne wished herself back at Patty’s Place, where there was always somebody else about to take the edge off a delicate situation.
There was the edge of the cliff, and some way below was the hut, where presently, her husband would meet his death.
I glanced toward Xodar and the youth and saw that they had slipped over the edge of the dock into the water.