edge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɛd͡ʒ/    美 /ɛd͡ʒ/|/ed͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. 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. An advantage.
    — I have the edge on him.
  4. 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. also,figuratively
    — No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
    — The cup is right on the edge of the table.
  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.
  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
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
    — 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
  11. The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud. attributive,often
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. transitive
    — He edged the book across the table.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. intransitive
    — He edged away from her.
  3. To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. transitive
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger. transitive
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging. transitive
    — 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181, 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.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. transitive
    — To edge her champion sword
  8. To form a border to; to enclose, to border. transitive
    — Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.
  9. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. figuratively
    — By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
  10. To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time. intransitive,slang,transitive
    — Near-synonym: goon
  11. To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something. figuratively,slang,transitive
    — When are the developers going to release the update? They've been edging us for months with all of these trailers.

词形变化

edges plural edges present,singular,third-person edging participle,present edged participle,past edged past

词汇关系

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absorption edge anti-edge bent edge bleed edge bleeding edge bleeding-edge bottom edge cliff edge curved edge cutting edge cutting-edge deckle edge directed edge drip edge edge contraction feather edge fore edge free edge hyperedge inside edge interedge knife-edge leading edge leading-edge left-edge deletion loose edge negative edge outside edge pearl edge platform edge positive edge pseudo-edge razor's edge razor edge signal edge straight edge toe edge top edge trailing edge water's edge wire edge

词源

词源 1
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, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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”)).
词源 2
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, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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”)).
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