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Edge can be a noun or a verb.
edge used as a noun:
- The boundary line of a surface.
- The joining line between two vertices of a polygon.
- The place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage (as have the edge on)
- 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.
"He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12." - Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
"Upon the edge of yonder coppice." - Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
"The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott." - 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.
- The edge of a cricket bat.
- Any of the connected pairs of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
edge used as a verb:
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged the book across the table." - To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged away from her." - (cricket) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- Triming the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is edge?
- Noun usage: He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12.
- Noun usage: Slander, \ Whose edge is sharper than the sword.
- Noun usage: Upon the edge of yonder coppice.
- Noun usage: In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge \ Of battle. John Milton.
- Noun usage: Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.
- Noun usage: The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott.
- Noun usage: 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. Jeremy Taylor
- Verb usage: He edged the book across the table.
- Verb usage: He edged away from her.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of edge are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of edge, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
