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English
Etymology
From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).
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Noun
edge (plural edges)
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (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.
- (figurative) An advantage.
I have the edge on him.
2013 December, Paul Voss, “Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation”, in IEEE Spectrum:It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.
- 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:
- Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
2026 July 25, Eleanor Olcott, Zijing Wu, quoting Kevin Xu, “Rock star founder behind Moonshot AI”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:“Culture that embraces not only hard-core technology but also music, art and the humanities gives Moonshot an edge,” he said.
- (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.
Speaking with a metallic edge to her voice. There was an unmistakable edge to her remarks.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 1818:No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
- 1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929:
- And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
2024 September 9, Ellie Violet Bramley, quoting Tom Morris, “‘Just the right amount of edge’: how Marseille became 2024’s on-trend city”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:Unlike a lot of the south of France, which, he said, “can be expensive, and a little too overdone and chi-chi for my tastes”, Marseille “has just the right amount of edge while being surrounded by incredibly stunning landscapes […] .”
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
The cup is right on the edge of the table. He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
After the timeout there was a new edge to the team's play.
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2”, in The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, published 1841, page 69: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.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
in the edge of evening
- 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203
- supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
- Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.
2026 March 28, John Foley, “Can Big Tech profit from AI spree?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:That speaks to another unknown that might work in Apple's favour: the move towards “edge AI”, or models run on local devices.
- (ice skating) A position or curved gliding movement favouring either the inside or outside edge of the blade against the ice surface, or the visible trace left on the ice when gliding on an edge.
To jump a flip, the skater takes off from their backward inside edge and lands on a backward outside edge.
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employing this term at the beginning employing this term elsewhere Translations
boundary line of a surface
- Albanian: buzë (sq) f, skaj (sq)
- Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: طرف m (ṭaraf)
- Hijazi Arabic: حَافَّة f (ḥāffa), طَرَف m (ṭaraf)
- Armenian: ծայր (hy) (cayr), եզր (hy) (ezr)
- Aromanian: mardzinã f, mardzine, mardzini
- Azerbaijani: qıraq (az), kənar (az)
- Bashkir: сит (sit)
- Basque: ertz, bazter
- Belarusian: край m (kraj), грань f (hranʹ)
- Bulgarian: ръб (bg) m (răb)
- Burmese: စပ် (my) (cap)
- Catalan: vora (ca) f
- Chamicuro: a'soowa
- Chechen: йист (jist)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏛᎢ (asdvi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 邊界 / 边界 (zh) (biānjiè), 邊緣 / 边缘 (zh) (biānyuán)
- Czech: hrana (cs) f
- Danish: rand (da)
- Dutch: rand (nl), kant (nl)
- Esperanto: rando
- Estonian: äär, serv
- Finnish: reuna (fi), laita (fi)
- French: bord (fr) m
- Friulian: ôr, spuinde, cei, margin
- Galician: bordo (gl) m, randa f, beira (gl) f, beiril m, aba (gl) f, cadillo m
- Georgian: კიდე (ḳide), ნაპირი (naṗiri)
- German: Rand (de) m
- Greek: άκρη (el) f (ákri), χείλος (el) n (cheílos)
- Ancient Greek: ἄκρα f (ákra), χεῖλος n (kheîlos)
- Guarani:
- Mbya Guarani: embe
- Hebrew: שָׂפָה (he) f (safá), שׁוּלַיִם (he) m du (shuláyim)
- Hindi: किनारा (hi) m (kinārā), कोना (hi) m (konā)
- Hungarian: szél (hu), perem (hu), szegély (hu)
- Icelandic: kantur (is) m
- Ingush: йист (jist)
- Irish: imeall (ga) m, ciumhais f, colbha m, corr f
- Italian: orlo (it) m, bordo (it) m
- Japanese: 際 (ja) (きわ, kiwa), 端 (ja) (はし, hashi), 縁 (ja) (へり, heri)
- Javanese: pinggir (jv)
- Old Javanese: pinggir
- Kapampangan: danggut, sepu
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: قەراغ (ckb) (qeraẍ)
- Latgalian: mola
- Latin: margō f
- Latvian: mala (lv) f, krasts (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kraštas (lt) m, briauna f
- Lushootseed: ʔili
- Macedonian: раб m (rab)
- Malay: pinggir (ms)
- Malayalam: വക്ക് (ml) (vakkŭ), അറ്റം (ml) (aṟṟaṁ)
- Mandar: biring
- Maranao: sisid
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: tēntli
- Norwegian: kant (no) m
- Occitan: bòrd (oc)
- Ossetian: кӕрон (kæron)
- Persian: کنار (fa) (kenâr)
- Pitjantjatjara: kantilypa
- Plautdietsch: Kaunt f
- Polish: krawędź (pl) f, skraj (pl) m, rąbek (pl) m, obrzeże (pl) n, kraniec (pl) m
- Portuguese: margem (pt) f
- Quechua: pata
- Romanian: margine (ro)
- Romansh: ur, our
- Russian: край (ru) m (kraj), грань (ru) f (granʹ), кро́мка (ru) f (krómka)
- Sanskrit: धारा (sa) f (dhārā)
- Sardinian: óru, vora f, màrgine, màrgini
- Scottish Gaelic: iomall m, oir f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ру̑б m
- Latin: rȗb (sh) m
- Slovak: hrana (sk) f
- Slovene: rọ̑b (sl) m
- Southern Altai: чет (čet)
- Spanish: orilla (es) f, borde (es) m
- Swedish: rand (sv)
- Telugu: అంచు (te) (añcu)
- Ternate: uru
- Thai: ขอบ (th) (kɔ̀ɔp)
- Turkish: kenar (tr), kıran (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قیی (kıyı), لب (leb)
- Ukrainian: край (uk) m (kraj), грань (uk) f (hranʹ)
- Urdu: کنارہ m (kanāra)
- Vietnamese: rìa (vi), cạnh (vi), mép (vi)
- Yagara: deea
- Yakut: кытыы (kïtïï), дьайыҥ (jayïŋ)
- Zazaki: kışt
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joining line between two vertices of a polygon place where two faces of a polyhedron meet thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument
- Armenian: սայր (hy) (sayr), բերան (hy) (beran)
- Bulgarian: резец (bg) m (rezec), нож (bg) m (nož)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 刃 (zh) (rèn)
- Czech: ostří (cs)
- Dutch: kling (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: terä (fi)
- French: carre (fr) f
- Galician: gume m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Klinge (de) f, Schneide (de) f
- Greek: κόψη (el) f (kópsi)
- Hungarian: él (hu)
- Icelandic: egg (is) f
- Ingrian: nenä
- Italian: lama (it) f, filo (it) m
- Japanese: 刃 (ja) (は, ha)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دەم (ckb) (dem)
- Latvian: asmens (lv) m, asums m
- Lithuanian: ašmenys pl
- Māori: niao, niho (mi), koinga
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: egg (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: egg m or f
- Old English: ecg (ang)
- Polish: ostrze (pl) n
- Portuguese: fio (pt), gume (pt)
- Romanian: tăiș (ro), ascuțiș (ro)
- Russian: ле́звие (ru) n (lézvije), остриё (ru) n (ostrijó), грань (ru) f (granʹ), кро́мка (ru) f (krómka), резе́ц (ru) m (rezéc)
- Sardinian: atta f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: rězyna f
- Spanish: filo (es) m
- Swedish: egg (sv)
- Tahitian: ʻoiraʻa
- Thai: คม (th) (kom)
- Turkish: bıçak ağzı, bıçak sırtı (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قلاغی (kılağı), كسكین (keskin), غراب (gurab)
- Ukrainian: вістря (vistrja), лезо (lezo)
- Vietnamese: lưỡi dao
- Yakut: бии (bii)
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that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part in graph theory: any of the pairs of vertices in a graph a glide or trace in ice skating Translations to be checked Verb
edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged the book across the table. The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged away from her.
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 9 September 2026:Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
- If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):To edge her champion sword
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- Near-synonym: goon
Jimmy has been edging for 6 hours straight; is his dick okay?
2011, Nicholson Baker, House of Holes[3], page 181:“I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44:His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
2016, Jenna Jacob, Lured By My Master: (The Doms of Genesis, Book 6):“I'm going to edge you all night long. That should take the sass out of you.”
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
When are the developers going to release the update? They've been edging us for months with all of these trailers. They say no Internet is better than slow Internet, cause at least your browser doesn't edge you every time you try to load a page.
2023 July 12, @northstardoll, Twitter[4] (post), archived from the original on 10 January 2024:situationships are like getting edged romantically
2023 September 20, @TieflingMelissa, X[5] (post):Chat's literally EDGING ME at this point with extending the subathon what the fuck 😭😭😭
2023 October 9, @wdnos, X[6] (post):i love when kanye edges me like this, he just keeps me wanting and begging for it.
2023 December 6, @flwrphil, X[7] (post):why do dnp feel the need to edge us with their uploading schedule? :/
2024 January 4, @henryscdiaz, X[8] (post):never been edged so successfully in my life because they've GOT me hooked
2024 January 6, @sigmachomper, X[9] (post):You people cannot keep edging me with my follower number, it keeps getting to like 775 before falling to 769 again 😭😭
Quotations
- 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
- In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!
Derived terms
(See above.)
Translations
to move something gradually to delay one's orgasm
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 寸止 (cùnzhǐ)
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