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edge English

Meaning edge meaning

What does edge mean?
Definitions in simple English

edge Noun

— The boundary of a surface. — An advantage. His speed gives him an edge.

edge Verb

— To create an edge. He edged the grass. — To move slowly. She edged away from him.

edge

— noun the boundary of a surface — noun a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object he rounded the edges of the box — noun (= boundary) a line determining the limits of an area — verb (= inch) advance slowly, as if by inches He edged towards the car — noun the attribute of urgency in tone of voice his voice had an edge to it — noun a slight competitive advantage he had an edge on the competition — noun the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something the edge of the leaf is wavy she sat on the edge of the bed the water's edge — verb provide with an edge edge a blade — verb (= border) provide with a border or edge edge the tablecloth with embroidery — verb (= adjoin, march) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary Canada adjoins the U.S. England marches with Scotland

Synonyms edge synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as edge?

edge English » English

border rim side margin end brink hem brim fringe bank boundary verge tip blade shore corner limit point periphery angle selvage sharpness sharpen perimeter lip trim ridge ledge frontier edging bound top kerb grind extremity curb circumference arc advantage whet skirt selvedge seam rib outskirts marge list line limits limb

Topics edge topics

What do people use edge to talk about?
States Parts of things

Edge
Universe, creation World Land

Forest, grassland, desert
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore
Work and occupation Agriculture

Agricultural tool
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
Work and occupation Tool

Parts of tools
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Nervous
Work and occupation Work Worker

Expert
States Time Aspectual time Age

Modern
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Excited
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Table
Work and occupation Work Difficult, impossible

Advantage
Physical actions Posture

Sit
States Quantity More

Decrease
States Quality Texture

Sharp

Conjugation edge conjugation

How do you conjugate edge?

edge · verb

Examples edge examples

How do I use edge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't put the glass near the edge of the table.
My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.
My knife has lost its edge.
The knife has a very sharp edge.
This knife has a fine edge and cuts well.
Will you please hold this edge?
The company's competitive edge will be eroded if system engineers continue to leave.
Tell the children to keep away from the water's edge.
He had a slight edge on his opponent.
I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.
When the farmer drops dead off the tractor, then at the edge of the forest, there must be a reactor.
After six games, Sampras had the edge on his opponent.
He chipped the edge of the tea cup.
The edge of this knife is sharp and cuts well.
If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.
The knife's serrated edge makes it perfect for cutting such things as bread.
Tom, alone, bent over the left edge of the sentence, was hesitating to jump, to put an end to all this story.
Tom nearly had a heart attack when he saw Mary standing on the edge of the roof.
Three soldiers who came back from the war are renting a house at the edge of a small town on the shore of the Inland Sea and live together.
Tom pushed Mary off the edge of the cliff.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Death is only a horizon. And a horizon is just the edge of our field of view.
I've been on edge all day.

Movie subtitles

So this was the cutting edge of timekeeping technology. Yes, totally correct.
Likely from the edge of the chimney.
It was pure silk twill with a handmade rolled edge.
He rushes to the rope which hangs from the point of the shell and letting himself slide down the rope he gives it an impetus which causes the shell to fall off the edge of the moon.
The carriage lies broken at the edge of the abyss.
Not on the cross, Lord Margrave - on the sharp edge of your sword!
Ruediger, you swore by the sharp edge of your sword!
It's about 20 feet from the edge of the clearing.
We'll put our chimneys on the very edge, not 300 yards off.
But they keep pushing me closer to the edge!
I'm kind of on edge today, deciding about this play. and everything.
The edge of the cloud crossing the moon.
I'm sitting on the edge of my chair.
What business? Miserable little service station on the edge of nowhere.
That's not all. Their R D team is astounding. Bleeding-edge munitions are made there.
A drink from time to time takes the edge off.
Her grave is on the hill at the far edge of the compound.
That's fun, dancing near the edge. Come on, come on! We're here!
They're on edge!
Oh, Annie. Don't go near the edge there, dear.
I warned her against going near the edge. The woman who passed must have heard me.
If you'd intended to entice her to the edge and throw her over, would you? No! No, I loved my wife.
He called her name and.. Warned her not to go too near the edge of the cliff. Lady Dearden.
I didn't turn round to see. And he hadn't seen you when he called and warned her not to go near the edge?
No gilt-edge securities, no rolling woodlands?
It's a little skimpy. Yes it is, but I think by cutting an edge here and there, we could slip through.
He woke up in the middle of the night and thought he saw. a great big white hand comin' up at him over the edge of the bed.
The whole yard's on edge!
See the grooves on the edge?
You know, there seemed to be something desirable in flying over the edge.
You always want an edge, don't you, Blackmore?
Setting snares at woods' edge.
I have a little nest on the edge of a town called Bridgefield, a town that's full of millionaires.
Oh, I think something with a black edge around it might be appropriate.
I was all on edge.
Yes, you do everything to put me on edge.
Puts my teeth on edge to think of it.

News and current affairs

Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
Nevertheless, even if America is only on the edge of a liquidity trap, and even if it moves away from the current state of affairs soon, this is a frightening situation.
One morning, I was taken to a dry riverbed at the village's edge.
Pollution by nutrients and toxins from adjacent land areas further vitiate coral populations' ability to recover, giving seaweed an even greater competitive edge.
The idea is to use global networks of knowledge and action to identify and demonstrate new, cutting-edge approaches to sustainable development around the world.
It is the repository of cutting-edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world-class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability.
As the world's leading-edge economy, America faces the hardest work in ensuring growth, for it must create - not only copy and adapt - new technologies, better forms of capital, and more productive business organizations.
America and Europe will keep their high living standards only by basing their competitiveness on advanced skills, cutting-edge technologies, and modern infrastructure.
Hundreds of millions of poor people, who already spend a large share of their daily budget on food, are being pushed to the edge.
In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never amounted to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self-destruction.
Experience shows that democracies hold the edge over authoritarian regimes when it comes to handling the fallout from crises.
What's worse, the way such people then act tends to edge us closer to Huntington's nightmare scenario.
Bush's plan to reform Social Security in the US - at least what is known of it - represents the ownership revolution's cutting edge.
All this clustering resulted in state-of-the-art production and cutting-edge business.
The Japanese economy has, in fact, been on the leading edge of many of the more serious problems that have afflicted the global economy in recent years.
Whereas Japan, the US, and Europe are competent at research into what is almost known, the cutting-edge science is more likely to emerge in an economy hungry for resources and infrastructure, such as China.
Because of its leading edge in the information revolution, and its vast investment in traditional power resources, the US will remain the world's single most powerful country well into this new century.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
The country's southwest edge is on the same longitude as the countries of the south Caucasus and Turkey, all of which are already ENP countries or in the case of Turkey an EU candidate.
Given this, officials, investors, and business leaders in search of revolutionary ideas, cutting-edge solutions, and untapped talent should not allow turbulence in some societies, or tranquility in others, to influence their decisions excessively.
But he is also an entrepreneur, and this is the latest in his many efforts to create successful, low-cost, but cutting-edge medical ecosystems in tough locations worldwide.
CAMBRIDGE - As the world economy tumbles off the edge of a precipice, critics of the economics profession are raising questions about its complicity in the current crisis.
Yet California's technological and entrepreneurial might - standing alone, the state would be the world's eighth largest economy - coexists with a dysfunctional political system that has brought it to the edge of fiscal bankruptcy.
The US leads the world in obesity, and is at the cutting edge of the debate.

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