edge
Meaning of edge
noun
- The boundary line of a surface.
- 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.
- An advantage.
I have the edge on him.
- 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.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
in the edge of evening
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged the book across the table.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged away from her.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
Information about edge
- The plural form of edge is: edges.
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Hyphenation of edge
edge
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- edge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
edge synonyms
Meaning border:
border, adjoin, abut, march, butt
Meaning boundary:
Meaning sharpness:
Meaning margin:
Meaning inch:
Meaning :
advantage, gain, line, brink, lip, rim
Translation of edge
- French: tranchant, bord, contour
- Spanish: filo, contorno, margen, orilla, canto, vera
- German: Rand, Umriss
- Italian: margine, orlo, bordo
- Portuguese: borda
Anagrams of edge
Words that rhyme with edge
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