Etimology
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, Swedish egg, Norwegian 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”)).
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.
An advantage.
(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.
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
(cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
(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.
Examples
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.
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, puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
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:
The cup is right on the edge of the table.
He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
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
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.
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.
Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
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.
Related words
synonyms
(advantage): advantage, gain
(sharp terminating border): brink, boundary, lip, margin, rim
(in graph theory): line
hyponyms
absorption edge
bent edge
bleed edge
bleeding edge, bleeding-edge
bottom edge
curved edge
cutting edge, cutting-edge
deckle edge
directed edge
drip edge
feather edge
fore edge
free edge
hyperedge
inside edge
interedge
knife-edge
leading edge, leading-edge
loose edge
negative edge
outside edge
pearl edge
platform edge
positive edge
pseudo-edge
razor's edge
signal edge
straight edge
toe edge
top edge
trailing edge
water's edge
wire edge
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.
(intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
(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.
(transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
(intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
(transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
Examples
He edged the book across the table.
The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
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.
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.
To edge her champion sword
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
Near-synonym: goon
Jimmy has been edging for 6 hours straight; is his dick okay?
“I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
“I'm going to edge you all night long. That should take the sass out of you.”
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.
situationships are like getting edged romantically
Chat's literally EDGING ME at this point with extending the subathon what the fuck 😭😭😭
i love when kanye edges me like this, he just keeps me wanting and begging for it.
why do dnp feel the need to edge us with their uploading schedule? :/
never been edged so successfully in my life because they've GOT me hooked
You people cannot keep edging me with my follower number, it keeps getting to like 775 before falling to 769 again 😭😭