edge.
The boundary line of a surface.
Meaning & usage
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.
Speaking with a metallic edge to her voice.
There was an unmistakable edge to her remarks.
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
The cup is right on the edge of the table.
He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
After the timeout there was a new edge to the team's play.
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.
A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
Where this word comes from
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”)).
To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged the book across the table.
The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged away from her.
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 form a border to; to enclose, to border.
To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
Jimmy has been edging for 6 hours straight; is his dick okay?
To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”)).
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