edge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: edges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: edges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: edging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: edged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: edged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The boundary line of a surface.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An advantage.
pos: noun
examples: I have the edge on him.
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.
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."
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: 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[…].”
gloss: A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
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
gloss: Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
pos: noun
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
gloss: A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
pos: noun
gloss: A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
pos: noun
gloss: The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: 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.
gloss: To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He edged the book across the table.
The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
gloss: To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To win by a small margin.
pos: verb
gloss: To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
gloss: To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To edge her champion sword
gloss: To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
gloss: To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: 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?”
His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
“I'm going to edge you all night long. That should take the sass out of you.”
gloss: To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
examples: 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
Chat's literally EDGING ME at this point with extending the subathon what the fuck 😭😭😭
i love when kanye edges me like this, he just keeps me wanting and begging for it.
why do dnp feel the need to edge us with their uploading schedule? :/
never been edged so successfully in my life because they've GOT me hooked
You people cannot keep edging me with my follower number, it keeps getting to like 775 before falling to 769 again 😭😭
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отмествам
roman: otmestvam
lang: Finnish
word: hivuttaa
lang: German
word: schieben
lang: German
word: verschieben
lang: Māori
word: nekeneke
lang: Māori
word: whakanekeneke