edge

  1. Noun.  The boundary line of a surface.
  2. Noun.  (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.
  3. Noun.  An advantage (as ''have the edge on'').
  4. Noun.  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.
  5. Noun.  Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the ''edge'' of a table, a precipice.
  6. Noun.  Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. Noun.  The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the ''edge'' of evening. "On the ''edge'' of winter." ''John Milton.''.
  8. Noun.  (cricket) The edge of a cricket bat.
  9. Noun.  (graph theory) Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph.
  10. Noun.  In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
  11. Verb.  (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  12. Verb.  (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  13. Verb.  (cricket) (transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  15. Verb.  (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.

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