Edge

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Related terms 1.2.3 Further reading 1.3 Intransitive verb 1.4 Transitive verb

English

Etymology

OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. αχ point, Skr. açri edge.

Noun

edge

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. (Geometry) The joining line between two vertices of a polygon.
3. (Geometry)The place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
4. An advantage (as have the edge on)
5. 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.

6. 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 edge
   Of battle. Milton.

   Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

7. 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.

8. 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.

Translations

• Finnish: särmä (3)

Related terms

• edging
• edgy
• on edge
• on the edge

Further reading

• MathWorld articles: Polyhedron edges, Polygon edges

Intransitive verb

1. Move slowly

   He edged away from her.

Transitive verb

1. Move an object slowly

   He edged the book across the table.