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Definition of 'verge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) verge
the limit beyond which something begins or occurs; brink:
on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

2.  verge
the edge or margin of something:
the verge of a desert.

3.  verge
a limiting belt, strip, or border of something.

4.  verge
a strip of turf bordering a walk or roadway.

5.  verge
the part of a sloping roof that projects beyond the gable wall.

6.  verge
a staff, esp. one carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office of a bishop, dean, etc.

7.  verge
a palletlike lever formerly used in inexpensive pendulum clocks.

8.  verge
a wand held in the hand of a feudal tenant while swearing fealty to a lord.

9. (v.i.) verge
to be on the verge or margin; border:
Our property verges on theirs.

10.  verge
to come close to or approach some state, quality, etc.:
a scientific mind verging on genius.

11. (v.i.) verge
to incline; tend (usu. fol. by to or toward):
The economy verges toward inflation.

12.  verge
to slope or sink.

Etymology: (1600–10; < L vergere to turn, bend, be inclined)

Definition of 'verge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) brink, threshold, verge
a region marking a boundary

2. (noun) verge, brink
the limit beyond which something happens or changes
"on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"

3. (noun) scepter, sceptre, verge, wand
a ceremonial or emblematic staff

4. (verb) verge
a grass border along a road

5. (verb) verge
border on; come close to
"His behavior verges on the criminal"

Definition of 'verge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) verge
to almost be
laughter verging on hysteria

2. (noun) verge
a border on the edge
a car parked on the grass verge

3. verge
on the verge of
about to happen, exist, etc.
a country on the verge of disaster; scientists on the verge of a discovery

Definition of 'verge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) verge
a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean

2. (noun) verge
the stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge

3. (noun) verge
the compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore

4. (noun) verge
a virgate; a yardland

5. (noun) verge
a border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent

6. (noun) verge
a circumference; a circle; a ring

7. (noun) verge
the shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft

8. (noun) verge
the edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof

9. (noun) verge
the spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement

10. (noun) verge
the edge or outside of a bed or border

11. (noun) verge
a slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre

12. (noun) verge
the penis

13. (noun) verge
the external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix

14. (verb) verge
to border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach

15. (verb) verge
to tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north

Translation of 'verge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the (grass) edging of a garden bed, a road etc It's illegal to drive on the grass verge.
Afrikaans: rand	Arabic: حافَّه	Bulgarian: ивица трева
Brazilian: orla	Czech: okraj	German: der Rand
Danish: kant; -kant	Greek: χείλος, άκρο	Spanish: margen, borde; arcén
Estonian: ääris	Farsi: حاشیه؛ کناره	Finnish: piennar
French: bord	Hebrew: שוּלַיִים	Hindi: किनारा
Croatian: rub	Hungarian: széle (vminek)	Indonesian: tepi
Icelandic: kantur; vegarbrún	Italian: orlo	Japanese: 緑
Korean: 길가, 화단가	Lithuanian: kraštas, riba	Latvian: (dārza, ceļa u.tml.) apma
Malay: bahu jalan	Dutch: berm	Norwegian: (vei)kant
Polish: krawędź	Portuguese: orla	Romanian: margine
Russian: бордюр; обочина	Slovak: okraj	Slovenian: travnati obrobek
Serbian: ivica	Swedish: kant, rand	Thai: ริม (ถนน, ทางเดิน)
Turkish: kenar	Taiwanese: 邊緣	Ukrainian: бордюр
Urdu: کنارہ	Vietnamese: bờ, ven	Chinese: 边缘
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