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Edge

noun
/ɛdʒ/
Word Frequency: 42.1

Definitions

1.nounThe boundary line of a surface.
2.nounA 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.
3.nounAn advantage.
"I have the edge on him."
4.nounThe 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.
5.nounA sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
"He is standing on the edge of a precipice."
6.nounSharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
7.nounThe border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
"in the edge of evening"
8.nounA shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
9.nounA connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10.nounIn male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
11.verbTo move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged the book across the table."
12.verbTo move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged away from her."
13.verb(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
14.verbTo hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
15.verbTo trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
16.verbTo furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
17.verbTo furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
18.verbTo make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
19.verbTo delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

Synonyms

advantagegainlineboundarybrinklipmarginrimborderabutperipheraladjoin

Rhymes With

allegepledgewedgehedgeledgefledgesedgesledge
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