English Dictionary

edge

/ɛd͡ʒ/

noun

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.

She stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down at the ocean below.

意味（1）

The boundary line of a surface.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

An advantage.

I have the edge on him.

意味（4）

(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.

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

意味（5）

A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

The cup is right on the edge of the table.

意味（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.

意味（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

意味（8）

(cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.

Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper

意味（9）

(graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.

意味（10）

A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.