edge
/ɛd͡ʒ/
The boundary line of a surface; An advantage; 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
- plural
- edges
Meanings
- 1
The boundary line of a surface
My knife has lost its edge.
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Tom sat down on the edge of the bed.
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- 2
An advantage
- 3
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
- 4
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge
- 5
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 meetrare
- 6
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desirerare
- 7
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part — of a period of timerare
- 8
A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionallyrare
- 9
A connected pair of vertices in a graphrare
- 10
A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climaxrare