edge

noun

/ɛd͡ʒ/CA/ed͡ʒ/

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”)).

inherited from *h₂eḱ-✻
inherited from *agjō✻
inherited from *aggju✻
inherited from eċġ
inherited from egge

Definitions

The boundary line of a surface.
A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two…
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.
- I have the edge on him.
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1. 4
  The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or…
  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.
  - No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
  - And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
  - Unlike a lot of the south of France, which, he said, “can be expensive, and a little too overdone and chi-chi for my tastes”, Marseille “has just the right amount of edge while being surrounded by incredibly stunning landscapes[…].”
2. 5
  A sharp terminating border
  A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  - The cup is right on the edge of the table.
  - He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
  - Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
3. 6
  Sharpness
  Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  - Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
  - we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
4. 7
  The border or part adjacent to the line of division
  The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  - in the edge of evening
  - supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
5. 8
  A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  - 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
6. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
7. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
  A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
8. 11
  The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed…
  The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
  - Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.
  - That speaks to another unknown that might work in Apple's favour: the move towards “edge AI”, or models run on local devices.
9. 12
  To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  - He edged the book across the table.
  - The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
10. 13
  To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  - He edged away from her.
  - Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
11. To win by a small margin.
12. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
13. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
  To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
14. To furnish with an edge
  To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
15. 18
  To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon
  To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  - To edge her champion sword
16. 19
  To form a border to
  To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
  - Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.
17. 20
  To make sharp or keen
  To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  - By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
18. 21
  To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long…
  To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
  - Near-synonym: goon
  - Jimmy has been edging for 6 hours straight; is his dick okay?
  - “I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
19. 22
  To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
  - When are the developers going to release the update? They've been edging us for months with all of these trailers.
  - They say no Internet is better than slow Internet, cause at least your browser doesn't edge you every time you try to load a page.
  - situationships are like getting edged romantically
20. Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
21. Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable
  Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.
22. Notation for an edge rusher.
23. A surname.
24. Microsoft Edge.
25. A place name
  A place name:

The neighborhood

neighborabsorption edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighboranti-edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborbent edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborbleed edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborbleeding edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborbleeding-edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborbottom edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborcliff edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborcurved edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborcutting edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighborcutting-edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)
neighbordeckle edgeHyponyms of edge (noun)

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for edge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA