Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EDGE

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Definitions of EDGE

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. An advantage.
3. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
4. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
5. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
6. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
7. (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.
8. (alsofiguratively) 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.
9. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
10. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
11. (computing, often, attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
12. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
13. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
14. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
15. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
16. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
17. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
18. (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
19. (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
20. (intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
21. (mobile phones) Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
22. (scouting, education) Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.
23. (gridiron football) Notation for an edge rusher.
24. Microsoft Edge.
25. A place name:
26. A surname.

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Examples of Using EDGE in a Sentence

• Born in Congleton, Garner grew up in Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as "The Edge", where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region.
• The territory covers , most of which is ocean, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef and includes Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group and fifteen other reef/island groups.
• Technically the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text.
• Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave.
• Internet access is available as Cable Internet, ADSL, WiMAX, EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS/HSDPA in most parts of the country.
• "Damascus steel" developed a high reputation for being tough, resistant to shattering, and capable of being honed to a sharp, resilient edge.
• In graph theory, an expander graph is a sparse graph that has strong connectivity properties, quantified using vertex, edge or spectral expansion.
• Although "The Heart of Waterfall Way", Ebor is on the eastern edge of Armidale Regional Council, and close to the border of Clarence Valley Council and Bellingen Shire Council.
• In both football codes the distance is measured from the inside edge of the end line to the far edge of the goal line so that the line itself is part of the end zone.
• This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion, and the Ontario Lowlands ecoregion of the Great Lakes Lowlands.
• Edge, an American food writer, explains how writers in the genre view its topic:

  Food is essential to life.

• When forming a sibilant, one still is forcing air through a narrow channel, but in addition, the tongue is curled lengthwise to direct the air over the edge of the teeth.
• With a population of 486,492, Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population of approximately 1.
• The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea.
• Some of his best-known works include the 1967 Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", considered by some to be the single greatest episode of the Star Trek franchise (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes his original teleplay), his A Boy and His Dog cycle (which was made into a film), and his short stories "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman".
• It plays an important role in atmospheric electricity and forms the inner edge of the magnetosphere.
• In all cases, two faces can intersect along a line that is not an edge of either face, so that part of each face passes through the interior of the figure.
• Keykode (also written as either KeyKode or KeyCode) is an Eastman Kodak Company advancement on edge numbers, which are letters, numbers and symbols placed at regular intervals along the edge of 35 mm and 16 mm film to allow for frame-by-frame specific identification.
• Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, Los Altos is a bedroom community on the western edge of Silicon Valley, serving as a major source of commuters to other parts of Silicon Valley.
• Its best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, the Azure cloud computing platform, and the Edge web browser.
• Morocco is a Northern African country, located in the extreme northwest of Africa on the edge of continental Europe.
• Together these make up the nation of Papua New Guinea in tropical Oceania, located in the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
• Derived from the Greek word for '5', and "domino", a pentomino (or 5-omino) is a polyomino of order 5; that is, a polygon in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge to edge.
• Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.
• A plane graph can be defined as a planar graph with a mapping from every node to a point on a plane, and from every edge to a plane curve on that plane, such that the extreme points of each curve are the points mapped from its end nodes, and all curves are disjoint except on their extreme points.

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