edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: edges
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”)).
Senses: glosses: The boundary line of a surface.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I have the edge on him.
text: It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.
ref: 2013 December, Paul Voss, “Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation”, in IEEE Spectrum:
text: Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
ref: 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN
glosses: An advantage.
examples: text: No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 1818:
text: And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
ref: 1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929
text: 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[…].”
ref: 2024 September 9, Ellie Violet Bramley, quoting Tom Morris, “‘Just the right amount of edge’: how Marseille became 2024’s on-trend city”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The cup is right on the edge of the table.
text: He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
text: Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
examples: text: 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.
ref: a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2”, in The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, published 1841, page 69:
text: we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
examples: text: in the edge of evening
text: supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
ref: 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203
glosses: The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
examples: 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
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
glosses: A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
Synonyms: sense: advantage
word: advantage
sense: advantage
word: gain
sense: sharp terminating border
word: brink
sense: sharp terminating border
word: boundary
sense: sharp terminating border
word: lip
sense: sharp terminating border
word: margin
sense: sharp terminating border
word: rim
sense: in graph theory
word: line
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: absorption edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: anti-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: bent edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: bleed edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: bleeding edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: bleeding-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: bottom edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: cliff edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: curved edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: cutting edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: cutting-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: deckle edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: directed edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: drip edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: edge contraction
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: feather edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: fore edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: free edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: hyperedge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: inside edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: interedge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: knife-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: leading edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: leading-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: left-edge deletion
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: loose edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: negative edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: outside edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: pearl edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: platform edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: positive edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: pseudo-edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: razor's edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: razor edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: signal edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: straight edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: toe edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: top edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: trailing edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: water's edge
sense: Hyponyms of edge (noun)
word: wire edge
Derived terms: sense: Proper names
word: Alderley Edge
sense: Proper names
word: Desert Edge
sense: Proper names
word: Edge Hill
sense: Proper names
word: Edgehill
sense: Proper names
word: Edge Island
sense: Proper names
word: Edgewater
sense: Proper names
word: River Edge
sense: Proper names
word: Wenlock Edge
sense: Proper names
word: Weston-sub-Edge
sense: Proper names
word: Wotton-under-Edge
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: back and edge
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgebanding
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge case
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge city
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge computing
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge control
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge cover
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge covering number
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge effect
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge in
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge index
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgel
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgeland
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgeless
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: ~ness
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgelet
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgelike
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge list
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgelong
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge loop
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgelord
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgemaker
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgemaking
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge mill
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge number
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge of the earth
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge-of-the-wedge theorem
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge of the world
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge out
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgepath
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge play
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge protector
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edger
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge rail
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge rusher
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge set
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge sorting
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgestitch
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgestone
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge tool
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge-triggered
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge up
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edge venting
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgeware
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgeway
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgeways
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgewear
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgewise
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgework
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edging
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgingly
sense: employing this term at the beginning
word: edgy
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: bleed-edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: book-edge gilder
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: book-edge marbler
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: break edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: Canny edge detection
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: Canny edge detector
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: disedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: don't cut yourself on that edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: factory edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: get a word in edgewise
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: half-edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: hard-edge painting
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: inedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: infinity-edge pool
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: knife edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: knife-edge effect
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: knife's edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: live on the edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: Milledgeville
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: negative edge-triggered
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: negative-edge-triggered
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: nonedged
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: on edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: on the edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: on the edge of
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: on the edge of one's seat
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: outedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: overedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: over the edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: platform edge door
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: play with edge-tools
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: positive-edge-triggered
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: positive edge-triggered
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: push the edge of the envelope
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: re-edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: rough around the edges
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: selvage
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: set someone's teeth on edge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: take the edge off
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: thin edge of the wedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: two-edged
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: unedge
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: wet edge time
sense: employing this term elsewhere
word: zero-edge pool