From en.wiktionary.org:
[Edge]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en].
See also [nl], [de], [sv], [no]; also [cy], [la], [la], [lv], [lv], [grc],
[grc], and [fa]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The boundary line of a surface .
2. [en] A one-dimensional face of a polytope . In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon ; the place where two face s of a polyhedron meet.
3. An advantage .
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | month=December | author=Paul Voss
|magazine=w:IEEE Spectrum|title=Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation (see
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/small-drones-deserve-sensible-regulation)
|passage=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.}}
1. * 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, " Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra (see http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/24/asia/yingluck-shinawatra-trial-verdict/index.html) ", in edition.cnn.com, _CNN_ :
2. *: 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 ."
3. [en] 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 wound s deeply, etc.
4. * [3]
5. * 1833 , Adam Clarke (editor), _[Book of Revelation]_ , II, 12, _The New Testament_ , page 929 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=umlCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA929&dq=%22He+which+hath+the+sharp+sword+with+two+edges%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rmmoUZ7REoXpiAeV64DABw&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22He%20which%20hath%20the%20sharp%20sword%20with%20two%20edges%22&f=false) :
6. *: And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two EDGES :
7. * [en-GB]
8. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink ; an extreme verge .
9. * [4]
10. * [passage=In worst extremes, and on the perilous EDGE / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults]
11. * [passage=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]
12. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire .
13. * {{ quote-book | en | year=a. 1667 | author=w:Jeremy Taylor | chapter=Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2 | title=The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor | year_published=1841 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MQ5MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22Death+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.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eGOoUbenCKToiAeqp4GIAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Death%20and%20persecution%20lose%20all%20the%20ill%20that%20they%20can%20have%2C%20if%20we%20do%20not%20set%20an%20edge%20upon%20them%20by%20our%20fears%20and%20by%20our%20vices.%22&f=false | page=69
|passage=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.}}
1. * [page=175]
2. The border or part adjacent to the line of division ; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
3. * 1670 , [John Milton] , _[The History of Britain (Milton)]_ , _The Prose Works of John Milton_ , published 1853, Volume V, page 203 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=89AIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203&dq=%22supposing+that+the+new+general,+unacquainted+with+his+army,+and+on+the+edge+of+winter,+would+not+hastily+oppose+them.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HGeoUdTFJYuwiQev1ID4Bw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22supposing%20that%20the%20new%20general%2C%20unacquainted%20with%20his%20army%2C%20and%20on%20the%20edge%20of%20winter%2C%20would%20not%20hastily%20oppose%20them.%22&f=false)
4. *: supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the EDGE of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
5. [en] A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
6. * 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
7. *: Finally another EDGE for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
8. [en] [en] A connected pair of vertices in a graph .
9. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability , or climax .
10. [en] The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing ), as opposed to the cloud .
11. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- [advantage] [en] , [en]
- [sharp terminating border] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [in graph theory] [en]
**** Hyponyms
{{col4|en|title=Hyponyms of _edge (noun)_ |absorption edge |bent edge |bleed
edge |bleeding edge,bleeding-edge |bottom edge |curved edge |cutting
edge,cutting-edge |deckle edge|anti-edge|cliff edge|edge contraction |directed
edge |drip edge |feather edge |fore edge |free edge |hyperedge |inside edge
|interedge |knife-edge |leading edge,leading-edge |loose edge |negative edge
|outside edge |pearl edge |platform edge |positive edge |pseudo-edge |razor's
edge |signal edge |straight edge |toe edge |top edge |trailing edge |water's
edge |wire edge }}
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en|title=Proper names |Alderley Edge |Desert Edge |Edge Hill,Edgehill
|Edge Island |Edgewater|River Edge |Wenlock Edge |Weston-sub-Edge
|Wotton-under-Edge }} {{col4|en|title=employing this term at the beginning
|edge effect|edge of the earth|edge of the world |edgebanding |edge case |edge
city |edge computing |edge control |edge cover |edge covering number |edge in
|edgel |edgeless,~ness |edgelet|edge loop |edgelike |edge list |edgelong
|edgelord |edge mill |edge number |edge out |edgepath |edge play |edge
protector |edger|edge-of-the-wedge theorem |edge rail |edge rusher |edge set
|edge sorting |edgestitch |edgestone |edge tool |edge-triggered |edge up |edge
venting |edgeware |edgeway |edgeways |edgewear |edgewise|edgingly |edgework
|edging |edgy|edge index|edgeland|edgemaker|edgemaking }}
{{col4|en|title=employing this term elsewhere|Milledgeville|selvage
|bleed-edge|don't cut yourself on that edge|factory edge|knife edge|knife's
edge|negative edge-triggered|negative-edge-triggered|on the edge|positive
edge-triggered|positive-edge-triggered|set someone's teeth on edge|Canny edge
detection|Canny edge detector|platform edge door|zero-edge pool |break
edge|knife-edge effect|wet edge time |disedge |get a word in edgewise
|half-edge |hard-edge painting |inedge |infinity-edge pool|book-edge
gilder|book-edge marbler|on the edge of |live on the edge |nonedged |on edge
|on the edge of one's seat |outedge |overedge |over the edge |play with
edge-tools |push the edge of the envelope |re-edge |rough around the edges
|take the edge off |thin edge of the wedge |two-edged |unedge }}
**** Translations
[boundary line of a surface]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic:
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup] , [rup]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur] , [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Mbyá Guaraní: [gun]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ternate: [tft]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Yagara: [yxg]
- Yakut: [sah] , [sah]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[joining line between two vertices of a polygon]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[place where two faces of a polyhedron meet]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[an advantage]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yakut: [sah]
[trans-bottom]
[that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[in graph theory: any of the pairs of vertices in a graph]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
2. [en] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
3. * [en]
4. [en] To win by a small margin .
5. [en] To hit the ball with an edge of the bat , causing a fine deflection .
6. [en] To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk , usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger .
7. [en] To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging .
8. * 2005 , Paige Gilchrist, _The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More_ , Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=GnKL2F-ZVUEC&pg=PT130&dq=%22re+edging%22&hl=en&ei=QwJnTrTODZD5mAWR2-2-DA&sa=X&oi=book_resultetct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22re%20edging%22&f=false) ,
9. *: 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.
10. [en] To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon ; to sharpen .
11. * [passage=To EDGE her champion sword]
12. [en] To form a border to; to enclose , to border .
13. * [chapter=I]
14. [en] To make sharp or keen ; to incite ; to exasperate ; to goad ; to urge or egg on .
15. * [passage=By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious EDGED .]
16. [en] [en] To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
17. * [en]
18. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Ryan Field | title=Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UbTYt_BFm5wC&pg=PA44&dq=%22edging%22+cock+jacking+off&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1D6OT6iDKJHJiQL3j8iBAw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ | page=44
|passage=His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he
must have been EDGING by then.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] [en] To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
**** Quotations
- 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), _The Phantom of the Opera_ , silent movie
**** Derived terms
[See above.]<!-- it's difficult (even if possible, rather contrived) to
separate the terms derived from the verb from those from the noun, since the
verb sense itself derives and is closely related to the noun sense -->
**** Translations
[to move something gradually]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
[trans-bottom] [to delay one's orgasm]
- Chinese:
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- Mathworld article on the edges of polygons (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolygonEdge.html)
- Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolyhedronEdge.html)
*** Anagrams
- [en]
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