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Vinony

edge

verb

  1. provide an edge or frame for an object
  2. move slightly
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noun

  1. surface of a book formed by the closed pages
  2. connection between a set of two vertices in a graph
  3. small competitive advantage
  4. line where an objects ends
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɛd͡ʒ/ / /ed͡ʒ/

name

Etymology: English topographic surname, derived from the noun edge. Compare Eck.

  1. A surname.
  2. Microsoft Edge.
  3. A place name:
  4. A place name:
  5. A place name:

noun

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”)).

  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. 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. An advantage.

    “I have the edge on him.”

    “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.”

  4. 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.

    “No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;”

    “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:”

  5. 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.”

  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

    “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.”

    “we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.”

  7. 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”

    “supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.”

  8. 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”

  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
  11. The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.

    “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.”

    “That speaks to another unknown that might work in Apple's favour: the move towards “edge AI”, or models run on local devices.”

verb

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”)).

  1. 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.”

  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    “He edged away from her.”

    “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.”

  3. To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. 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.”

  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

    “To edge her champion sword”

  8. To form a border to; to enclose, to border.

    “Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.”

  9. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

    “By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.”

  10. 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?”

  11. 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.”