Edge

Quick meaning: Edge is a noun meaning The boundary line of a surface.

Meaning

The boundary line of a surface.

More Meanings

1. An advantage.
2. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
3. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
5. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
6. (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.
7. (also figuratively) 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.

Example Sentences

I have the edge on him.

The cup is right on the edge of the table.

He is standing on the edge of a precipice.

No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;

Word Forms

• edges
• edging
• edged

Synonyms for edge

Depending on context, synonyms include advantage, gain, brink, boundary, lip, margin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boundary, border, abut, peripheral, adjoin, marginal.

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