| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Gradually; gingerly.[Websters]
2. In a ridged, ribbed, lobed or crested manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a limited manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a bladed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a seamed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an angled, sloping, slanting or inclined manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a legged manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a limbed or branching manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a bearded or barbed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective edging.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Edging) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb edge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (edge) | 1. Advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car".[Wordnet]. 2. Provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery".[Wordnet]. 3. Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.[Wordnet]. 4. Provide with an edge; "edge a blade".[Wordnet]. 5. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.[Websters]. 6. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.[Websters]. 7. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.[Websters]. 8. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.[Websters]. 9. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.[Websters]. 10. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.[Websters]. 11. To sail close to the wind.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: edging, edged, edges, edger, edgers, edgingly and edgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EDGINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: edge
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] In a general sense, the extreme border or point of any thing; as the edge of the table; the edge of a book; the edge of cloth. It coincides nearly with border, brink, margin. It is particularly applied to the sharp border, the thin cutting extremity of an instrument, as the edge of an ax, razor, knife or scythe; also, to the point of an instrument, as the edge of a sword.. | 2: [Noun] Figuratively, that which cuts or penetrates; that which wounds or injures; as the edge of slander.. | 3: [Noun] A narrow part rising from a broader. Some harrow their ground over, and then plow it upon an edge.. | 4: [Noun] Sharpness of mind or appetite; keenness; intenseness of desire; fitness for action or operation; as the edge of appetite or hunger. Silence and solitude set an edge on the genius.. | 5: [Noun] Keenness; sharpness; acrimony. Abate the edge of traitors. To set the teeth on edge, to cause a tingling or grating sensation in the teeth.. | 6: [Verb] To sharpen. To edge her champion's sword.. | 7: [Verb] To furnish with an edge. A sword edged with flint.. | 8: [Verb] To border; to fringe. A long descending train, With rubies edged.. | 9: [Verb] To border; to furnish with an ornamental border; as, to edge a flower-bed with box.. | 10: [Verb] To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter. By such reasonings,the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.. | 11: [Verb] To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward,when arguments fail.. | 12: [Verb] To move sideways; to move by little and little; as, edge your chair along.. | 13: [Verb] To move sideways; to move gradually. Edge along this way.. | 14: [Verb] To sail close to the wind. To edge away, in sailing, is to decline gradually from the shore or from the line of the course. To edge in with, to draw near to, as a ship in chasing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Electrical Engineering | The limit of allowed states in the energy spectrum of a semiconductor or insulator. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Forestry | The outer band of a patch that has an environment significantly different from the interior of the patch. (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: Edge is geographically located in Turkey. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 39.883333 degrees North latitude and 33.266667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: The more or less well-defined boundary between two or more elements of the environment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Industry | 1: Either narrow side, i. e. surface, of square-cut timber, as distinct from the faces. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Narrow laces used for trimming, with one edge straight and the other usually scalloped or indented. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Math | A connection between two vertices of a graph. In a weighted graph, each edge has an number, called a "weight." In a directed graph, an edge goes from one vertex, the source, to another, the target, and hence makes connection in only one direction. (references) | ||
| Military | 1: A boundary in an image between areas with different tones. (references) | 2: Exploitation of DGPS for Guidance Enhancement. (references) | |
| Mining | The margin where two or more vegetation patches meet, such as a meadow opening next to a mature forest stand, a red pine stand next to an aspen stand, or a clear-cut stand next to a well-stocked stand. (references) | ||
| Numismatics | The outer border of a coin, considered the "third side" (not to be confused with "rim"). Some coins feature lettering, reeding, or ornamental designs on their edges. (references) | ||
| Space | The boundary of an object in a photograph or image, usually characterized by a rather drastic change in the gray shade value from the immediate interior of the boundary to the immediate exterior of the boundary. (references) | ||
| Sports & Leisure | The full-length piece of steel built into the running -- of the ski to provide bite on the snow when the ski is edged, and to resist wear or damage. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (cricket) The edge of a cricket bat. (references) | 2: [Noun] (geometry) The joining line between two vertices of a polygon. (references) | 3: [Noun] (geometry) The place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. (references) | 4: [Noun] (graph theory) Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph. (references) | 5: [Noun] An advantage (as have the edge on). (references) | 6: [Noun] Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak. In worst extremes, and on the perilous edgeOf battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott. (references) | 7: [Noun] In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax. (references) | 8: [Noun] Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. 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. Jer. Taylor. (references) | 9: [Noun] The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton. (references) | 10: [Noun] The boundary line of a surface. (references) | 11: [Noun] The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12. Slander,Whose edge is sharper than the sword. Shak. (references) | 12: [Verb] (cricket) (transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. (references) | 13: [Verb] (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. He edged away from her. (references) | 14: [Verb] (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. He edged the book across the table. (references) | 15: [Verb] (transitive) Triming the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger. (references) |
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Common Expressions: edge
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Alderley Edge | Alderley Edge is a village in Cheshire, England. It takes its name from the wooded escarpment towering above the Cheshire plain, with fine views and walks. (references) | ||
| Born on the edge of white water | Born on the Edge of White Water is an autobiographical account by Leonard V Stocker, published in 2004 by Pen Press Publishers in the UK. (references) | ||
| Cherwell Edge | Cherwell Edge in Northamptonshire (52°6'N"1 17°W') is at the River Cherwell, north-west of Banbury. (references) | ||
| City On the Edge of Forever (South Park) | City On the Edge of Forever is episode 207 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired June 17, 1998. (references) | ||
| Competitive Edge Motorsports | Competitive Edge Motorsports is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series team. It fields the #51 Marathon Oil Chevrolet for amateur driver Stuart Kirby. Its principal owner is former NFL player Joe Auer. It debuted at the 2004 Coca-Cola 600 with Kevin Lepage driving, finishing 43rd after suffering overheating failures. After running four more races with Lepage, all resulting in DNF's, Tony Raines took over the driving duties, his best finish being 28th at Dover. In 2005, ARCA racer Stuart Kirby began driving, qualifying for three races thus far, posting a best finish of 31st. The team plans to go full-time in 2006 with Kirby competing for Rookie of the Year. While Marathon Oil has signed through 2009, the team is still looking for extra sponsorship backing. (references) | ||
| Cutting edge | 1: The sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: The position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Cutting Edge Ministries | An online ministry founded by two Christian pastors and Conspiracy Theorists, who believe that the Freemasons and Illuminati secretly influence the governments of the world towards producing the kingdom of the Antichrist. Their belief is that these secret groups are creating natural disasters such as hurricanes using advanced weaponry, as well as orchestrating terrorist attacks, to incite panic among the general public so that the people will in essence beg to be enslaved under more and more surveillance and government control (they often cite the Patriot Act as being part of this conspiracy). They also believe that these groups will create catastrophic natural disasters to destroy two-thirds of the world's population, as well as their cities, in order to restore lost wilderness and to group humanity into easy-to-control spheres of influence. (references) | ||
| Dancing at the Edge of the World | Dancing at the Edge of the World is a 1989 nonfiction collection by Ursula K. Le Guin. (references) | ||
| Deckle edge | Rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dream's Edge | Dream's Edge is a collection of short science-fiction stories about the future of Planet Earth. It is edited by collector Terry Carr. It was published in 1980 by Sierra Club Books (San Francisco) with ISBN 0-87156-238-3. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: edge
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Back and Edge | Literature | 1: To the back, that is, to the backbone, entirely. 2: To back and fill. A mode of tacking, when the tide is with the vessel and the wind against it. Metaphorically, to be irresolute. 3: To back up. To uphold, to support. As one who stands at your back to support you. 4: To set one's back up. (See above.) 5: To turn one's back on another. To leave, forsake, or neglect him. To leave one by going away. 6: "He planted his back against a wall, in a skilful attitude of fence ready with his bright glancing rapier to do battle with all the heavy fierce unarmed men, some six or seven in number." - Mrs. Gaskell: The Poor Clare, iii. 7: "That word set my back up." Dame Huddle's Letter (1710). 8: On the back of. Immediately after. Figure from soldiers on the march. 9: "With half the city at his back." Byron: Don Juan. 10: Entirely, heartily, tooth and nail, with might and main. The reference is to a wedge driven home to split wood. 11: To back the field. To bet on all the horses bar one. A sporting term used in betting. 12: "They were working back and edge for me." - Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms , ch. ii. 13: To back out. To draw back from an engagement, bargain, etc., because it does not seem so plausible as you once thought it. Many horses are unwilling to go out of a stable head foremost, and are backed out. 14: "Octavius backs out; his caution and reserve come to her rescue." - C. Clarke: Shakespeare. 15: To back the sails. So to arrange them that the ship's way may be checked. 16: At the back of. Behind, following close after. Figure from following a leader. 17: To see his back; to see the back of anything. To get rid of a person or thing; to see it leave 18: Back the oars or back water is to row backwards, that the boat may move the reverse of its ordinary direction. 19: To break the back of a thing. To surmount the hardest part. 20: His back is up. He is angry, he shows that he is annoyed. The allusion is to a cat, which sets its back up when attacked by a dog or other animal. 21: To get one's back up. To be irritated (See above). 22: To have his back at the wall. To act on the defensive against odds. One beset with foes tries to get his back against a wall that he may not be attacked by foes behind. 23: "At length we ... turn our backs on the outskirts of civilisation." - Tristram: Moab, ii. 19. 24: Behind my back. When I was not present. When my back was turned. 25: Laid on one's back. Laid up with chronic ill-health; helpless. Figure from persons extremely ill. 26: Thrown on his back. Completely worsted. A figure taken from wrestlers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Beveled edge | Art | Any edge tapered at less than a 90-degree angle to make the transition from upper to lower surface more gradual than in a right-angle cut. Beveled boards are sometimes used in hand bookbinding. The edges of mats used in framing are normally beveled at a 60-degree angle. (references) | |
| Binding edge | Art | The edge at which the leaves of a book are attached to one another, usually by sewing the folded and gathered sections together and gluing them to a lining, or by trimming away the back fold and applying strong adhesive to the loose leaves. The three outer edges of a book are the head, foot or tail, and fore-edge. Compare with spine. (references) | |
| Bleeding edge | Military | (DOD, NATO) That edge of a map or chart on which cartographic detail is extended to the edge of the sheet. (references) | |
| Built-up edge | Mechanical Engineering | Work material adhered to the tool cutting edge. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Chamfered Edge | Building | Molding with pared-off corners. (references) | |
| Cracked edge | Metallurgy | Transverse cracks on the edges of sheet or strip. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cut edge | Business | The portion of the key blade which contains the cuts. (references) | |
| Cutter and edge trimmer | Occupations | Saws and grinds gates and flash from castings of novelty jewelry and trophy figurines: Starts bandsaw and positions casting against revolving blade to cut off gate. Scrapes off flash and smooths rough surfaces, using belt-sanding machine, rotary file, and hand knife. (references) | |
| Cutting edge | Mechanical Engineering | The edge formed by the intersection of the flank and face. The major edge penetrates the work in the feeding direction. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: edge
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| EDGE | English | Electronic data gathering equipment | Computing | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
