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Definition edge

Etymology

From Middle English egge, from Old English e??, from Proto-Germanic *agj? (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aci?s (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “needle”), ???? (akm?, “point”), and Persian ??‎ (?s, “grinding stone”)).

Noun

edge (plural edges)

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. (geometry) 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.
3. An advantage.
4. (also figuratively) 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.
5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
8. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
9. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.

Verb

edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)

1. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
2. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
4. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
5. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
6. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
8. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
9. (intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

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