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Meaning:

Noun:

  • An advantage (as ''have the edge on'')
  • Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the ''edge'' of a table, a precipice.
  • cricket The edge of a cricket bat.
  • geometry The joining line between two vertices of a polygon.
  • geometry The place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  • graphtheory Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph.
  • In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
  • Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • The border or part John Milton.''
  • The boundary line of a surface.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • (cricket) transitive To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  • intransitive To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • transitive To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • transitive Triming the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

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