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fringe English

Meaning fringe meaning

What does fringe mean?
Definitions in simple English

fringe Adjective

— Something that is a fringe, is outside what is commonly accepted or outside the mainstream

fringe Noun

— A edge or border used to make something fancy. The flag has a yellow fringe. — A part on the outside. — Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding uncommon ideas or views. — The edge of a town or city. — That part of the hair that hangs down over the eyes (US bangs). — A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light. Interference fringe.

fringe Verb

— To decorate with fringe. — To serve as a fringe.

fringe

— noun (= periphery) the outside boundary or surface of something — noun (= outskirt) a part of the city far removed from the center they built a factory on the outskirts of the city — noun one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light — noun an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels — noun a social group holding marginal or extreme views members of the fringe believe we should be armed with guns at all times — verb adorn with a fringe The weaver fringed the scarf — verb decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe fur fringed the hem of the dress — noun (= bang) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead

Synonyms fringe synonyms

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

fringe English » English

edge border rim tassel periphery margin brim brink hem edging side bangs welt perimeter bang outskirts forelock verge tassels tape surroundings supplement stripe streak skirt pom-pom outskirt outer boundary marking interference fringe frill environs circumference addition weather strip wayside vein valance trim trifle away trickle down threshold terminal tatting tassle tassel feeler strip striature striation striae

Topics fringe topics

What do people use fringe to talk about?
Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing
States Parts of things

Edge

  • What words refer to the edge of a piece of clothing?
    hem fringe

Conjugation fringe conjugation

How do you conjugate fringe?

fringe · verb

Examples fringe examples

How do I use fringe in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I recommend putting up your hair so your fringe doesn't get on your forehead.

Movie subtitles

Suddenly, you come to a clearing with a fringe of trees around it.
The very fringe of some great discovery.
I'll leave a fringe for a windbreak and some in the south quarter for a watershed.
That way you'd get all the fringe benefits - hospitalisation, a pension plan and unemployment insurance when you're. how shall I put it. between engagements?
Fringe benefits?
Fringe benefits include extensive travel. large wardrobe allowance. liberal retirement plan.
I have waited years to tell you what you can do with your job, your salary, bonuses and fringe benefits.
Scott, the Joint Chiefs even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe, they're not the enemy.
I think, two hostess gowns I was going to wear and a couple of short cocktail numbers, and a false fringe.
Astrologers, spiritualists, table-rappers, the entire lunatic fringe.
A fringe benefit left over by the spores.
Hey, the fringe; pull it forwards a tiny, tiny, tiny bit.
Of course, there's - there's always a lunatic fringe.
Please maintain random fringe drift within ten percent of initial value.
He always walks with a cane, and he's bald up here. But he has a lovely fringe of white hair all around.
I designed this aerial for fringe areas, it should work.
There's always a lunatic fringe.
It has fringe all around the edges and I guess, you could wear it over your head at noon to keep the sun off, or, I suppose in the evening when it's cool you could throw it around your shoulders.
And you'll ride alongside mr. Cliff robertson in a strange tale of a handful of american pioneers who made a detour in time and found themselves one afternoon on the fringe of the future.
And don't hide the fringe.
I'm aware of the fringe benefits.
There are so many fringe benefits.
Well, with the kind of fringe benefits you girls have to offer, I could get you a crew right now.
I suppose it would have fringe benefits.
You have fringe benefits.
Have been running a unit-trust linked assurance scheme With fringe benefits and full cash-in endowment facilities.
According to the idiot fringe.
This is the most southern fringe of Zambians Group. the Island of Cola-Cola.
There's no doubt about it, we're just on the fringe of the problem.
Pension. Fringe benefits.
Yes, I cut my fringe a little.
Getting more secret instructions from the lunatic fringe?
Well, we're covering a number of fringe organisations, and I'm sure we'll find a place for you, somewhere between the flying saucer people and the flat-earthers.
Rock formations on the fringe of the universe.
It's still used as standard currency in fringe deals with planets that have no computer linkup.

News and current affairs

That would certainly satisfy Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian fringe seeking to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
Elsewhere - including Europe and the United States - anti-Semitism survives among a fringe of neo-Nazis and renegades like Ellwanger, but also, more widely, in milder forms of prejudice.
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.
Outside a fringe of nostalgic chauvinists, however, most Europeans and Japanese are no longer so convinced that modernization is sufficient validation of imperial rule.
Thus, they can't all be written off as a purely lunatic fringe.
Beheadings online, fatwas online: the subterranean world of Islam's radical fringe can be found on countless Internet sites.
Inequality is not a fringe issue.
Can one blame voters for being suspicious of the silence of the political majority, and even for being taken in by the fringe's blustering?
Led by Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, who frequently appears with the Ahmadinejad, the Hojatieh society is considered by many Shia as the lunatic fringe.
The countries at the fringe of this zone typically benefit from a range of factors that make complete elimination of malaria possible, including lower transmission of the disease, stronger health systems, and relative national wealth.
Berlin's geographical position in the EU of tomorrow now seems more central, with Paris on the fringe.
Overall, it is fair to say that South America and the Middle East remain fringe players at the Olympics.
We now see them feast on enfeebled democracies in many European countries, as fringe movements become serious contenders for power and threaten to wipe out the achievements of more than 60 years of European integration.
Only Germany's lunatic fringe dares to commemorate Hitler.
Most of us (except for a lunatic fringe of flat-earthers) also believe this to be the case.
And fringe elements often use religion to espouse violence against particular groups.
Only Germany's lunatic fringe dares to commemorate Hitler. Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot's memory.
Moreover, in the current grim economic conditions across Europe, voters who do turn out are all too likely to take the opportunity to punish the major parties and vote for fringe and even extremist politicians.
If the euro is to survive, eurozone members must act, while other EU members with various levels of commitment to European integration remain on the fringe.
The political problem is that the second solution cannot yet be sold to German voters, let alone to nationalist fringe parties like France's National Front and Finland's True Finns.
Yet, by passing the blame for their ongoing terrorist-proxy policy to their mullah puppets, the generals have made the US believe that the key is to contain the religious fringe, not the puppeteers.
It also allows easier contact with fringe groups, such as anti-globalization protesters and the most zealous greens.

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