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Edge   /ɛdʒ/   Listen
Edge

noun
1.
The boundary of a surface.  Synonym: border.
2.
A line determining the limits of an area.  Synonyms: bound, boundary.
3.
A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object.
4.
The attribute of urgency in tone of voice.  Synonym: sharpness.
5.
A slight competitive advantage.
6.
The outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something.  "She sat on the edge of the bed" , "The water's edge"
verb
(past & past part. edged; pres. part. edging)
1.
Advance slowly, as if by inches.  Synonym: inch.
2.
Provide with a border or edge.  Synonym: border.
3.
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.  Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march.  "England marches with Scotland"
4.
Provide with an edge.



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... of the line. Accordingly, on August 30, the line beginning at Port sur Seille, east of the Moselle and extending to the west through St. Mihiel, thence north to a point opposite Verdun, was placed under my command. The American sector was afterward extended across the Meuse to the western edge of the Argonne Forest, and included the 2d Colonial French, which held the point of the salient, and the 17th French Corps, which occupied the ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... Right on the edge of the woods stood a splendid old beech tree with a high, firm trunk, under which the child had often sought quiet and shelter after running about in the sun. She had reached the tree now and was ...
— Cornelli • Johanna Spyri
... the light of God. Perhaps, perhaps, he thought, who knows but the first news he would bring to her would be the news of that communion? Certain it is that his hand moved vaguely over the blanket. It slipped over the edge of the bed and fell upon the bowed head of the sexton and remained there as if in benediction. And so the shadow deepened, and at last it was like unto nothing else known to the sons of men on earth, and the spirit leaped out of its clay tenement with the breath of the communion wine still ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon
... who did it, was it? Then take that!" and seizing one of the tin candlesticks, Eric hurled it at Barker's head. Barker dodged, but the edge of it cut open his eyebrow as it whizzed by, and the ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... accident that was not clear. Mean as his fame put him, the Black Abbot had never been known to fall in all of his vicious life. On his right knee there was a great furrow, long as a man's finger and torn at one corner. It was scarcely the sort of wound that the edge of a stone would make ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post


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