What's the difference between brow and edge?

Brow


Definition:

  • (n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
  • (n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
  • (n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
  • (n.) The general air of the countenance.
  • (n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
  • (v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the extensive soft-tissue and osseous involvement, all patients required composite resection of the orbit, the ethmoidal sinus, the orbital contents, and the soft tissue of the eyelids, brow, and temporal region.
  • (2) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
  • (3) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
  • (4) The drug was injected into the orbicularis oculi muscle of both upper and lower eyelids and, in some patients, into the brows and upper part of the face as well.
  • (5) This report describes the use of a new synthetic material, combining polyester with carbon, in nine brow suspension procedures.
  • (6) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (7) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
  • (8) A cluster of facial actions comprised of brow bulging, eyes squeezed shut, deepening of the naso-labial furrow and open mouth was associated most frequently with the invasive procedure.
  • (9) 8.08am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) #Pistorius writing on an A4 notepad, occasionally touching his brow with an unsteady hand.
  • (10) The approach via temporofrontal scalp produces limited and temporary brow elevation, and the scars may eventually become visible with hairline recession in men.
  • (11) People come to our house, furrowed brow and concerned - 'Have I got enough money?
  • (12) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
  • (13) Out of my siblings, I'm the darkest one, with a prominent nose and thick brows.
  • (14) The EMG, but not the positive wave, was elicited when the interpolar distance was reduced to 1 cm, which greatly reduced the fraction of current traversing the cortex (epicranial stimulation); furthermore, occluding the circulation to the scalp for 30 minutes by rubber tubing above the zygomas and brows dulled sensation, reduced the EMG, but did not alter the latency or rising phase of the positive wave.
  • (15) "Myself and a forensic anthropologist believe it is a woman due to the slightness of the skull and the lack of any brow ridges although our conclusions are very tentative because we're dealing only with the top of a skull," he said.
  • (16) Coronal brow lift, combined with transcoronal fat removal, serves these patients well.
  • (17) You don't see too many players from the home countries doing it - conversation with a six-year-old would probably be too high-browed for them.
  • (18) This procedure is particularly useful in patients with sparse brow hair caused by "overplucking."
  • (19) He said he remembered me saying, "This is an old wrinkle, from a very old brow", and now he hears himself saying it to young people he is training.
  • (20) This technique achieves complete mobilization of the forehead and brow, the lower eyelid, the raphe and lateral canthal area, the upper palpebral region, and of the suprazygomatic and infrazygomatic soft tissues, including the cheeks.

Edge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
  • (v. t.) Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • (v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • (v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
  • (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
  • (v. i.) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
  • (v. i.) To sail close to the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (2) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
  • (3) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (4) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (5) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
  • (6) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
  • (7) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
  • (8) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
  • (9) Mario Balotelli’s life on the edge leaves him asking: why not me any more?
  • (10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (11) Three disks of different sizes (10, 25, and 45 mm in diameter) were attached to the edge of the baresthesiometer, and pressures of 1, 3 and 5 kg were applied to the 10 mm disk, and 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg to the other disks.
  • (12) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (13) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).
  • (14) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (15) Attenuation compensation causes more noise to appear in the center than the edge for both modes and an average increase in uncertainty of 30%.
  • (16) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
  • (17) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
  • (18) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (19) Oxytocin-like immunoreactive neurons were observed to lie within 77 nm of the edge of the lumen of capillary blood vessels.
  • (20) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.