Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Edge   /ɛdʒ/   Listen
noun
Edge  n.  
1.
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." "Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword."
2.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. "Upon the edge of yonder coppice." "In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle." "Pursue even to the very edge of destruction."
3.
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. "The full edge of our indignation." "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."
4.
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."
Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner.
Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill.
Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle.
Edge plane.
(a)
(Carp.) A plane for edging boards.
(b)
(Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.
Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed.
Edge rail. (Railroad)
(a)
A rail set on edge; applied to a rail of more depth than width.
(b)
A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch.
Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge.
Edge stone, a curbstone.
Edge tool.
(a)
Any tool or instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting.
(b)
A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging tool.
To be on edge,
(a)
to be eager, impatient, or anxious.
(b)
to be irritable or nervous.
on edge,
(a)
See to be on edge.
(b)
See to set the teeth on edge.
To set the teeth on edge,
(a)
to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. (archaic)
(b)
to produce a disagreeable or unpleasant sensation; to annoy or repel; often used of sounds; as, the screeching of of the subway train wheels sets my teeth on edge.


verb
Edge  v. t.  (past & past part. edged; pres. part. edging)  
1.
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. "To edge her champion's sword."
2.
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
3.
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. "Hills whose tops were edged with groves."
4.
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. (Obs.) "By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged."
5.
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.


Edge  v. i.  
1.
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
2.
To sail close to the wind. "I must edge up on a point of wind."
To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.
To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Edge" Quotes from Famous Books



... hinting at anything personal, the ball shall be considered holed-out only when it is in the hole, not when it stops on the edge." ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... I thought it would be a good investment," Mr. Close informed him, turning up the edge of a piece of paper and creasing it as carefully as if it had been money. "Of course I would not care to ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... foundations of civilization; where wide plains flecked with sage-brush and ribboned with faint, brown trails, spread away and away to a far sky-line. For Phil Thurston was range-born, if not range-bred, His father had chosen always to live out on the edge of things—out where the trails of men are dim and far apart-and the silent prairie bequeaths a heritage of ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... their own expense, to furnish the troops quartered upon them by Parliament with fuel, bedding, utensils for cooking, and various articles of food and drink. To take off the edge from this bill, bounties were granted on the importation of lumber and timber from the plantations; coffee of domestic growth was exempted from additional duty; and iron was permitted to be carried to Ireland." (Barry's History ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson
... machinist is simply a man who knows how to handle a file or a plane: as for mechanics, that is the business of engineers and foremen. A country blacksmith often unites in his own person, by the very necessity of his position, the various talents of the locksmith, the edge-tool maker, the gunsmith, the machinist, the wheel-wright, and the horse-doctor: the world of thought would be astonished at the knowledge that is under the hammer of this man, whom the people, always inclined to jest, nickname brule-fer. A workingman of Creuzot, who for ten ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com