'EDGE' definitions:
Definition of 'edge'
(from WordNet)
noun
The boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border]
noun
noun
A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box"
noun
The attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness]
noun
A slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition"
noun
The outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge"
verb
Advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch]
verb
Provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge]
verb
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on]
verb
Provide with an edge; "edge a blade"
Definition of 'Edge'
From: GCIDE
- Edge \Edge\ ([e^]j), n. [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. 'akh` point, Skr. a[,c]ri edge. [root]1. Cf. Egg, v. t., Eager, Ear spike of corn, Acute.]
- 1. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, (figuratively), That which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. [1913 Webster]
- He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. --Rev. ii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. [1913 Webster]
- Upon the edge of yonder coppice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. [1913 Webster]
- The full edge of our indignation. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner.
- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill.
- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle.
- Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.
- Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed.
- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. --Knight.
- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge.
- Edge stone, a curbstone.
- Edge tool. (a) Any tool or instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging tool.
- To be on edge, (a) to be eager, impatient, or anxious. (b) to be irritable or nervous.
- on edge, (a) See to be on edge. (b) See to set the teeth on edge.
- To set the teeth on edge, (a) to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. [archaic] --Bacon. (b) to produce a disagreeable or unpleasant sensation; to annoy or repel; -- often used of sounds; as, the screeching of of the subway train wheels sets my teeth on edge. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'Edge'
From: GCIDE
- Edge \Edge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edged; p. pr. & vb. n. Edging.]
- 1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. [1913 Webster]
- To edge her champion's sword. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. [1913 Webster]
- Hills whose tops were edged with groves. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Edge'
From: GCIDE
- Edge \Edge\, v. i.
- 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sail close to the wind. [1913 Webster]
- I must edge up on a point of wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
- To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.
- To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
- To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'edge'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- A,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acidulousness,
- acme,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- acuity,
- aculeate,
- acuminate,
- acumination,
- acuteness,
- adjoin,
- advantage,
- air line,
- allowance,
- alpha,
- anxious,
- apex,
- apogee,
- apprehensive,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- axis,
- bank,
- barb,
- beeline,
- befringe,
- beginning,
- bind,
- bite,
- bitingness,
- bitterness,
- blast-off,
- board,
- border,
- bordure,
- bound,
- boundary,
- bourn,
- brim,
- brink,
- brow,
- bulge,
- cap,
- causticity,
- chord,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- coast,
- coign of vantage,
- commencement,
- crabbed,
- crawl,
- creation,
- creep,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- cuspidate,
- cut,
- cutting edge,
- cuttingness,
- dawn,
- deadwood,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- draw,
- drop,
- edge tool,
- edgy,
- effectiveness,
- end,
- enframe,
- establishment,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- featheredge,
- fidgety,
- fierceness,
- file,
- flange,
- flank,
- flying start,
- force,
- foundation,
- frame,
- fresh start,
- fringe,
- go crabwise,
- go sideways,
- great-circle course,
- grind,
- grip,
- handicap,
- harshness,
- head start,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- hem,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hone,
- ill at ease,
- inch,
- incisiveness,
- inside track,
- institution,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jump,
- jump-off,
- keenness,
- kick-off,
- knife-edge,
- labellum,
- labium,
- labrum,
- lap,
- lateral,
- lateralize,
- lead,
- leading edge,
- ledge,
- limb,
- limbus,
- limit,
- line,
- lip,
- list,
- make leeway,
- march,
- marge,
- margin,
- marginate,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- mountaintop,
- move,
- mucronation,
- ne plus ultra,
- nervous,
- new departure,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- normal,
- odds,
- oilstone,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outline,
- outset,
- peak,
- peevish,
- penetration,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- perpendicular,
- pinnacle,
- piquancy,
- pitch,
- poignancy,
- point,
- pointedness,
- pole,
- prickliness,
- prickly,
- pungency,
- purfle,
- purl,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- ragged edge,
- razor-edge,
- reset,
- restive,
- restless,
- ridge,
- right line,
- rigor,
- rim,
- roughness,
- running start,
- secant,
- segment,
- selvage,
- send-off,
- sensitive,
- set,
- set off,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- seventh heaven,
- severity,
- sharp,
- sharpen,
- sharpness,
- shore,
- shortcut,
- shrillness,
- side,
- sideline,
- sideslip,
- sidestep,
- sidle,
- skew,
- skid,
- skirt,
- sky,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- sourness,
- spiculate,
- spinosity,
- spire,
- spur,
- square one,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting point,
- steal,
- sting,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- strap,
- streamline,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- strop,
- summit,
- superiority,
- surround,
- take-off,
- tangent,
- taper,
- tartness,
- teeth,
- tense,
- thinness,
- thorniness,
- threshold,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- touchy,
- transversal,
- trenchancy,
- trim,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- upper hand,
- uppermost,
- uptight,
- urgency,
- utmost,
- vantage,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vector,
- veer,
- vehemence,
- verge,
- vertex,
- very top,
- violence,
- virulence,
- weapon,
- whet,
- whip hand,
- worm,
- zenith
Acronyms for 'edge'
From: V.E.R.A.
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Words containing 'EDGE'
- Edged,
- Edging,
- Edgingly,
- To be on edge,
- To edge down,
- To edge in,
- To edge in with,
- To edge off,
- edge in,
- edge up,
- on edge,
- Advancing edge,
- Deckle edge,
- Edge Hill,
- Edge joint,
- Edge mill,
- Edge molding,
- Edge of regression,
- Edge plane,
- Edge play,
- Edge rail,
- Edge railway,
- Edge stone,
- Edge tool,
- Edging machine,
- Entering edge,
- Entrant edge,
- Fiducial edge,
- Following edge,
- Fore edge,
- Gilt Edge,
- Hamburg edging,
- Leading edge,
- Pearl edge,
- River Edge,
- To edge away,
- To turn the edge of,
- Tooth edge,
- Trailing edge,
- Vandyke edge,
- Wire edge,
- cuspidal edge,
- cutting edge,
- double edged,
- gilt edged,
- knife edge,
- razor edge,
- take the edge off,
- Edge Hill, GA,
- Feather-edge,
- Feather-edged,
- Gilt Edge, TN,
- Gilt-edge,
- Gilt-edged,
- Knife-edge,
- Marble-edged,
- River Edge, NJ,
- To set the teeth on edge,
- Two-edged,
- cutting-edge,
- deckle-edged,
- double-edged,
- razor-edged,
- sawtoothed-edged,
- spiny-edged,
- white-edged,
- Knife-edge file,
- prickly-edged leaf,
- deckled deckle-edged featheredged