What does EDGE mean?

Definitions for EDGE
ɛdʒedge

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. edge, bordernoun

    the boundary of a surface

  2. boundary, edge, boundnoun

    a line determining the limits of an area

  3. edgenoun

    a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object

    "he rounded the edges of the box"

  4. edge, sharpnessnoun

    the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

    "his voice had an edge to it"

  5. edgenoun

    a slight competitive advantage

    "he had an edge on the competition"

  6. edgeverb

    the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something

    "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge"

  7. edge, inchverb

    advance slowly, as if by inches

    "He edged towards the car"

  8. border, edgeverb

    provide with a border or edge

    "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"

  9. border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt onverb

    lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

    "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"

  10. edgeverb

    provide with an edge

    "edge a blade"

Wiktionary

  1. edgenoun

    The boundary line of a surface.

  2. edgenoun

    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. edgenoun

    An advantage (as have the edge on)

  4. edgenoun

    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. edgenoun

    Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

  6. edgenoun

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

  7. edgenoun

    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. edgenoun

    The edge of a cricket bat.

  9. edgenoun

    Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph.

  10. edgeverb

    To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    He edged the book across the table.

  11. edgeverb

    To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    He edged away from her.

  12. edgeverb

    (cricket) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.

  13. edgeverb

    To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

  14. edgeverb

    To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.

  15. edgenoun

    In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax (edging).

  16. Etymology: egge, from ecg, from agjō (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg), from h₂eḱ- (compare Welsh hogi, Latin acies, acus, Latvian ašs, ass, Ancient Greek ἀκίς, ἀκμή, and Persian آس).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. EDGEnoun

    Etymology: ecge, Saxon.

    Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’ th’ sword
    His wife, his babes. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    He that will a good edge win,
    Must forge thick, and grind thin. Proverb.

    The edge of war, like an ill sheathed knife,
    No more shall cut his master. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

    ’Tis slander,
    Whose edge is sharper than the sword. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength. Eccl. x. 10.

    Some harrow their ground over, and then plow it upon an edge. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

    The rays which pass very near to the edges of any body, are bent a little by the action of the body. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    We have, for many years, walked upon the edge of a precipice, while nothing but the slender thread of human life has held us from sinking into endless misery. John Rogers, Sermons.

    Yes, the last pen for freedom let me draw,
    When truth stands trembling on the edge of law. Alexander Pope.

    Give him a further edge,
    And drive his purpose into these delights. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    But when long time the wretches thoughts refin’d,
    When want had set an edge upon their mind,
    Then various cares their working thoughts employ’d,
    And that which each invented, all enjoy’d. Thomas Creech, Manil.

    Silence and solitude set an edge upon the genius, and cause a greater application. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord!
    That would reduce these bloody days again. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

    A harsh grating tune setteth the teeth on edge. Francis Bacon.

  2. To Edgeverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    There sat she rolling her alluring eyes,
    To edge her champion’s sword, and urge my ruin. Dryden.

    I fell’d along a man of bearded face,
    His limbs all cover’d with a shining case;
    So wond’rous hard, and so secure of wound,
    It made my sword, though edg’d with flint, rebound. Dryd.

    Their long descending train,
    With rubies edg’d, and saphires, swept the plain. Dryden.

    I rid over hanging hills, whose tops were edged with groves, and whose feet were watered with winding rivers. Alexander Pope.

    By such reasonings the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. John Hayward.

    He was indigent and low in money, which perhaps might have a little edged his desperation. Henry Wotton, Life of D. of Bucks.

    Edging by degrees their chairs forwards, they were in a little time got up close to one another. John Locke.

  3. To Edgeverb

    To move forward against any power; going close upon a wind, as if upon its skirts or border, and so sailing slow.

    Etymology: perhaps from ed, backward, Saxon.

    I must edge upon a point of wind,
    And make slow way. John Dryden, Cleomenes.

Wikipedia

  1. edge

    Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), IMT Single Carrier (IMT-SC), or Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM. EDGE is considered a pre-3G radio technology and is part of ITU's 3G definition. EDGE was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003 – initially by Cingular (now AT&T) in the United States.EDGE is standardized also by 3GPP as part of the GSM family. A variant, so called Compact-EDGE, was developed for use in a portion of Digital AMPS network spectrum.Through the introduction of sophisticated methods of coding and transmitting data, EDGE delivers higher bit-rates per radio channel, resulting in a threefold increase in capacity and performance compared with an ordinary GSM/GPRS connection. EDGE can be used for any packet switched application, such as an Internet connection. Evolved EDGE continues in release 7 of the 3GPP standard providing reduced latency and more than doubled performance e.g. to complement High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA). Peak bit-rates of up to 1 Mbit/s and typical bit-rates of 400 kbit/s can be expected.

ChatGPT

  1. edge

    An edge can be defined in various ways depending on the context but generally, it refers to the line or border at which a surface or object ends; the point where two surfaces come together. In computer science, particularly in graph theory, it refers to the link between two nodes. In geometry, it is the line segment joining two vertices of a polygon, polyhedron, or other higher-dimensional polytope.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Edgeverb

    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

  2. Edgeverb

    any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice

  3. Edgeverb

    sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire

  4. Edgeverb

    the border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening

  5. Edgeverb

    to furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen

  6. Edgeverb

    to shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool

  7. Edgeverb

    to furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box

  8. Edgeverb

    to make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on

  9. Edgeverb

    to move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards

  10. Edgeverb

    to move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way

  11. Edgeverb

    to sail close to the wind

  12. Etymology: [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. 'akh` point, Skr. ari edge. 1. Cf. Egg, v. t., Eager, Ear spike of corn, Acute.]

Wikidata

  1. Edge

    Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom. It is known for its industry contacts, editorial stance, distinctive anonymous third-person writing style, yearly awards and longevity.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Edge

    ej, n. the border of anything: the brink: the cutting side of an instrument: something that wounds or cuts: sharpness of mind or appetite: keenness.—v.t. to put an edge on: to place a border on: to exasperate: to urge on: to move by little and little.—v.i. to move sideways.—n. Edge′-bone, the haunch-bone.—adjs. Edged; Edge′less, without an edge: blunt.—ns. Edge′-rail, a rail of such form that the carriage-wheels roll on its edges, being held there by flanges; Edge′-tool, Edged tool, a tool with a sharp edge.—advs. Edge′ways, Edge′wise, in the direction of the edge: sideways.—ns. Edg′iness, angularity, over-sharpness of outline; Edg′ing, any border or fringe round a garment: a border of box, &c., round a flower-bed.—adj. Edg′y, with edges, sharp, hard in outline.—Edge in a word, to get a word in with difficulty; Edge of the sword, a rhetorical phrase for the sword as the symbol of slaughter.—Outside edge, figure in skating, made on the outer edge of the skate.—Play with edge-tools, to deal carelessly with dangerous matters.—Set on edge, to excite; Set the teeth on edge, to cause a strange grating feeling in the teeth; to rouse an instinctive dislike. [A.S. ecg; cf. Ger. ecke, L. acies.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. edge

    The thin or cutting part of a sword or sabre.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EDGE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Edge is ranked #3119 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Edge surname appeared 11,556 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Edge.

    80.7% or 9,331 total occurrences were White.
    13.4% or 1,559 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 257 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 231 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 133 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 45 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EDGE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1381

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EDGE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1995

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EDGE' in Nouns Frequency: #498

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EDGE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EDGE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of EDGE in a Sentence

  1. Priscilla Moriuchi:

    Access to even just the email of staff at a cutting-edge Western pharmaceutical company could give ... the Iranian government an advantage in developing treatments and countering the disease.

  2. Sean Lyndersay:

    We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge, not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern : compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications.

  3. Nicholas Drummond:

    What really gave Sherman an edge was that it was designed to be easy to produce. With 49,234 Shermans made versus 1,347 Tigers, quantity outranked quality. Today supportability trumps sheer firepower, protection and mobility.

  4. Ilya Bobrovskiy:

    I took a helicopter to reach this very remote part of the world -- home to bears and mosquitoes -- where I could find Dickinsonia fossils with organic matter still intact, i had to hang over the edge of a cliff on ropes and dig out huge blocks of sandstone, throw them down, wash the sandstone and repeat this process until I found the fossils I was after.

  5. Mario Morales:

    A leading-edge design can cost $150 million to $200 million, which means that you have to be able to generate four times the revenue to get a return on investment.

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