edge
noun
[ ɛdʒ ]
• the outside limit of an object, area, or surface.
• "a willow tree at the water's edge"
Similar:
border,
boundary,
extremity,
fringe,
margin,
side,
lip,
rim,
brim,
brink,
verge,
perimeter,
circumference,
periphery,
contour,
outline,
limit,
limits,
outer limit,
bound,
bounds,
marge,
bourn,
skirt,
• the sharpened side of the blade of a cutting implement or weapon.
• "a knife with a razor-sharp edge"
• a quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals.
• "his cars have the edge over his rivals'"
Similar:
advantage,
lead,
head,
head start,
trump card,
the whip hand,
superiority,
the upper hand,
dominance,
ascendancy,
supremacy,
primacy,
precedence,
power,
mastery,
control,
sway,
authority,
the catbird seat,
the box seat,
edge
verb
• provide with a border or edge.
• "the pool is edged with paving"
Similar:
border,
fringe,
rim,
verge,
skirt,
be alongside,
surround,
enclose,
encircle,
circle,
encompass,
bound,
line,
flank,
trim,
pipe,
band,
decorate,
finish,
bind,
hem,
• move or cause to move gradually or furtively in a particular direction.
• "she tried to edge away from him"
Similar:
creep,
inch (one's way),
worm (one's way),
work (one's way),
pick one's way,
nose (one's way),
ease (oneself),
ease (one's way),
advance slowly,
advance stealthily,
sidle,
steal,
slink,
• give an intense or sharp quality to.
• "desperation edged her voice"
• strike (the ball) with the edge of the bat; strike a ball delivered by (the bowler) with the edge of the bat.
• "he edged a ball into his pad"
• ski with one's weight on the edges of one's skis.
• "you will be edging early, controlling a parallel turn"
Origin:
Old English ecg ‘sharpened side of a blade’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch egge and German Ecke, also to Old Norse eggja (see egg2), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin acies ‘edge’ and Greek akis ‘point’.
