edge

Definitions

1. noun

   The boundary line of a surface.

   Examples

   • The edge of the lake curved around the hill.
   • Trees grew right up to the edge of the field.
2. noun

   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.

   Examples

   • A cube has twelve edges.
   • The triangle's third edge connects the remaining vertices.
3. noun

   An advantage.

   Examples

   • Her experience gave her the edge over the other candidates.
   • The extra training gave the team an edge.
   ≈advantage≈gain
4. noun

   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.

   Examples

   • No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
   • And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
5. noun

   A sharp terminating border, a margin, a brink, or an extreme verge.

   Examples

   • The cup is right on the edge of the table.
   • He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
   ≈brink≈boundary≈lip≈margin≈rim +1 more
6. noun

   Sharpness, readiness or fitness to cut, keenness, or intenseness of desire.

   Examples

   • 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.
   • we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
7. noun

   The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)

   Examples

   • in the edge of evening
   • supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
8. noun

   A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.

   Examples

   • He got an edge through to the wicketkeeper.
   • The batsman edged the ball just past the slip fielder.
9. noun

   A connected pair of vertices in a graph.

   Examples

   • The graph has an edge between nodes A and B.
   • Removing that edge disconnects the two clusters.
   ≈line
10. noun

    A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.

    Examples

    • The technique involves holding at the edge before backing off.
    • He described the sensation of staying right at the edge.