fringe
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
broadcasting
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
radio
sports
television
Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
Inflected forms:
form: fringes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fringe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fringer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fringe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fringest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fringes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fringed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fringed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A decorative border.
pos: noun
examples: the fringe of a picture
The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.
gloss: A decorative border.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.
gloss: A marginal or peripheral part.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.
gloss: A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
pos: noun
examples: About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.
gloss: A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: a fringe group of the party
gloss: The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
pos: noun
examples: He lives on the fringe of London.
Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it.
gloss: The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
gloss: Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either.
“No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
gloss: A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
pos: noun
examples: interference fringe
gloss: Non-mainstream theatre.
pos: noun
examples: The Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
Adelaide Fringe
gloss: The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
pos: noun
gloss: The area around the green.
pos: noun
gloss: A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
pos: noun
gloss: Outside the mainstream.
pos: adj
examples: So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.
gloss: To decorate with fringe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, / ⁠And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.
Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun.
gloss: To serve as a fringe; to border.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
Derived words: befringe
defringe
donkey fringe
fringe benefit
fringecup
fringe dweller
fringefan
fringehead
fringeless
fringelet
fringelike
fringepod
fringer
fringe time
fringe-toed lizard
fringe tree
Fringeverse
fringeworthy
fringie
fringy
hoary fringe moss
interfringe
lunatic fringe
Newgate fringe
nonfringe
rurban fringe
underfringe
vortex fringe
woolly fringe moss
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: هُدْب
roman: hudb
lang: Arabic
word: هُدُب
roman: hudub
lang: Azerbaijani
word: saçaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: бордюр
roman: bordjur
lang: Catalan
word: orla
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 流苏
roman: liúsū
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 穗
roman: suì
lang: Czech
word: třáseň
lang: Czech
word: třepení
lang: Danish
word: frynse
lang: Dutch
word: franje
lang: Egyptian
word: s-d-b-S28
roman: sdb
lang: Esperanto
word: franĝo
lang: Finnish
word: reunakoriste
lang: French
word: frange
lang: German
word: Franse
lang: German
word: Saum
lang: German
word: Einfassung
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κράσπεδον
roman: kráspedon
lang: Hungarian
word: rojt
lang: Icelandic
word: kögur
lang: Ingrian
word: marha
lang: Italian
word: frangia
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: bóka
lang: Latin
word: limbus
lang: Māori
word: kihukihu
lang: Māori
word: kurupatu
lang: Middle English
word: frenge
lang: Norwegian
word: frynse
lang: Occitan
word: franja
lang: Old English
word: fæs
lang: Old English
word: fnæs
lang: Old English
word: fnæd
lang: Polish
word: frędzel
lang: Portuguese
word: borda
lang: Portuguese
word: franja
lang: Portuguese
word: orla
lang: Russian
word: бахрома́
roman: baxromá
lang: Russian
word: кайма́
roman: kajmá
lang: Russian
word: оторо́чка
roman: otoróčka
lang: Russian
word: окаймление
roman: okajmlenije
lang: Sanskrit
word: दशा
roman: daśā
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: resa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rojta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kićanka
lang: Sicilian
word: zazza
lang: Slovak
word: strapce
lang: Spanish
word: orla
lang: Swedish
word: frans
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صاچاق
roman: saçak
lang: Bulgarian
word: покрайнини
roman: pokrajnini
lang: Catalan
word: perifèria
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 周边
roman: zhōu biān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 边缘
roman: biān yuán
lang: Dutch
word: periferie
lang: Dutch
word: buitenwijken
lang: Finnish
word: laitakaupunki
lang: Finnish
word: laitama
lang: French
word: périphérie
lang: German
word: Randbezirk
lang: German
word: Randgebiet
lang: German
word: Peripherie
lang: Irish
word: colbha cathrach
lang: Italian
word: periferia
lang: Occitan
word: periferia
lang: Occitan
word: franja
lang: Occitan
word: barri
lang: Polish
word: ubocze
lang: Portuguese
word: periferia
lang: Russian
word: перифери́я
roman: periferíja
lang: Russian
word: окра́ина
roman: okráina
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: iomall
lang: Spanish
word: periferia
lang: Swedish
word: utkant
lang: Swedish
word: ytterområde