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Definition of edge

"edge" in the noun sense

1. edge, border

the boundary of a surface

2. boundary, edge, bound

a line determining the limits of an area

3. edge

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

"he rounded the edges of the box"

4. edge, sharpness

the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

"his voice had an edge to it"

5. edge

a slight competitive advantage

"he had an edge on the competition"

6. edge

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"

"edge" in the verb sense

1. edge, inch

advance slowly, as if by inches

"He edged towards the car"

2. border, edge

provide with a border or edge

"edge the tablecloth with embroidery"

3. border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on

lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

"Canada adjoins the U.S."

"England marches with Scotland"

4. edge

provide with an edge

"edge a blade"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for edge

Fall back, fall edge. [ Proverb ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite? [ William Shakespeare ]

Graceful, tossing plume of glowing gold,
Waving lonely on the rocky ledge;
Leaning seaward, lovely to behold,
Clinging to the high cliff's ragged edge. [ Celia Thaxter ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forests bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake edge,
Then plunge to depths profound! [ Emerson ]

He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge
May chance to catch a fall. [ Old song ]

It is a good knife, it was made at Dull-edge. [ Proverb ]

Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

A good edge is good for nothing if it has nothing to cut. [ Proverb ]

Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. [ Emerson ]

A blunt edge will do it, where sometimes a sharp ax will not. [ Proverb ]

A sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. [ Washington Irving ]

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen as is the razor's edge invisible. [ Shakespeare ]

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]

Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes upon soundings. [ Holmes ]

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed upon as when they have lost their edge. [ Swift ]

Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]

What matters it that a soldier has a sword of dazzling finish, of the keenest edge, and finest temper, if he has never learned the art of fence. [ William Matthews ]

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. [ Bacon ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. [ Horace Mann ]

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt, - as good no scythe as no edge. [ Bishop Hall ]

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]

Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

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edge in Scrabble®

The word edge is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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edge in Words With Friends™

The word edge is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Longer words containing edge

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