Edge

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 (as have the edge on)
 * 4) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
 * He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12.
 * Slander, \ Whose edge is sharper than the sword. William Shakespeare
 * 1) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
 * Upon the edge of yonder coppice. William Shakespeare
 * In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge \ Of battle. John Milton.
 * Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.
 * 1) Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
 * The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott.
 * 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. Jeremy Taylor
 * 1) The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." John Milton.
 * 2)  The edge of a cricket bat.
 * 3)  Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph.
 * 4) In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
 * 5)  Technical manuever of rock climbers in which the exterior interface of the upper and the sole is placed as far as possible onto rock ledges and the ankle is held rigidly, as opposed to "smearing".

Synonyms

 * (advantage): advantage, gain
 * (sharp terminating border): brink, lip, margin, rim, boundary
 * (in graph theory): line

Derived terms

 * on edge
 * top edge
 * bottom edge
 * inside edge
 * outside edge

Related terms

 * edging
 * edgy

Verb

 * 1)  To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
 * He edged the book across the table.
 * 1)  To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
 * He edged away from her.
 * 1) (cricket)  To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
 * 2)  To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
 * 1)  To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

Derived terms

 * edge out
 * edge up

Adjectives for Edge
shadowed; sharpened; upturned; natural; outermost; foaming; thin; extremes!; trembling; distinctive; cord; jutting; keen; cruel; marshy; raveled; cutting; frayed; frowsy; smooth-quarried; relentless; perilous.

Verbs for Edge
bevel—; blunt—; crimp—; double—; drive to—; dull—; escape—; file—; flounder on—; heave over—; round—; set on—; sharpen—; slip from—; smite with—; smooth—.

Thesaurus
A, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acme, acridity, acrimony, acuity, aculeate, acuminate, acumination, acuteness, adjoin, advantage, air line, allowance, alpha, anxious, apex, apogee, apprehensive, asperity, astringency, axis, bank, barb, beeline, befringe, beginning, bind, bite, bitingness, bitterness, blast-off, board, border, bordure, bound, boundary, bourn, brim, brink, brow, bulge, cap, causticity, chord, climax, cloud nine, coast, coign of vantage, commencement, crabbed, crawl, creation, creep, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cuspidate, cut, cutting edge, cuttingness, dawn, deadwood, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, draw, drop, edge tool, edgy, effectiveness, end, enframe, establishment, extreme limit, extremity, featheredge, fidgety, fierceness, file, flange, flank, flying start, force, foundation, frame, fresh start, fringe, go crabwise, go sideways, great-circle course, grind, grip, handicap, harshness, head start, heaven, heavens, height, hem, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hone, ill at ease, inch, incisiveness, inside track, institution, irascible, irritable, jump, jump-off, keenness, kick-off, knife-edge, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lateral, lateralize, lead, leading edge, ledge, limb, limbus, limit, line, lip, list, make leeway, march, marge, margin, marginate, maximum, meridian, mordacity, mordancy, mountaintop, move, mucronation, ne plus ultra, nervous, new departure, no place higher, noon, normal, odds, oilstone, on edge, on tenterhooks, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outline, outset, peak, peevish, penetration, perimeter, periphery, perpendicular, pinnacle, piquancy, pitch, poignancy, point, pointedness, pole, prickliness, prickly, pungency, purfle, purl, radius, radius vector, ragged edge, razor-edge, reset, restive, restless, ridge, right line, rigor, rim, roughness, running start, secant, segment, selvage, send-off, sensitive, set, set off, setting in motion, setting-up, seventh heaven, severity, sharp, sharpen, sharpness, shore, shortcut, shrillness, side, sideline, sideslip, sidestep, sidle, skew, skid, skirt, sky, something extra, something in reserve, sourness, spiculate, spinosity, spire, spur, square one, start, start-off, starting point, steal, sting, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, strap, streamline, stridency, stringency, strop, summit, superiority, surround, take-off, tangent, taper, tartness, teeth, tense, thinness, thorniness, threshold, tip, tip-top, top, touchy, transversal, trenchancy, trim, upmost, upper extremity, upper hand, uppermost, uptight, urgency, utmost, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, vector, veer, vehemence, verge, vertex, very top, violence, virulence, weapon, whet, whip hand, worm, zenith

Etymology
egge:, from ecg, from  (compare Dutch egge:, German Ecke:, Swedish egg:), from  (compare Welsh hogi:, Latin acies:, acus:, Latvian ašs:, ass:, Ancient Greek ἀκίς:, ἀκμή:, and Persian آس:).

Translations

 * Albanian:
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 * Campidanese Sardinian: vora
 * Catalan: vora
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 边界
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 * Greek: άκρη (akre), χείλος (khilos)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kantur


 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: mala, apmale
 * Lithuanian: kraštas, briauna
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: krawędź
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 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iomall, oir
 * Serbo-Croatian: rub
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 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అంచు


 * Armenian:
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 * Greek: ακμή
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 * Japanese: 辺
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ضلع
 * Polish: krawędź
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 * Telugu: భుజము


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 * Armenian: առավելություն
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 * Italian: vantaggio


 * Armenian: սայր,
 * Chinese: 刃
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 * Italian: lama
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 * Latvian: asmens, asums
 * Lithuanian: ašmenys
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 * Sardinian: atta
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 * Hungarian:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 辺
 * Portuguese: aresta
 * Serbo-Croatian: brid

Quotations

 * 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
 * In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!

Anagrams

 * geed