(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.
Frill
Definition:
(v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
(v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
(v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
(v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
(v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
(v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
(v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
(v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(2) The pace of growth for both Aldi and fellow German discounter Lidl has slowed over the past year, but Barnes said the no-frills chains would continue to take market share from traditional players such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
(3) 5 Don't assume no-frills will be the cheapest option Always check which airlines are flying the route you are interested in – try Skyscanner.net .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fancy that … Savages, a French-style cafe Fernando’s is a hole-in-the-wall no-frills Portuguese restaurant, just off Russell Road in Richmond Hill, with juicy chicken and prawns served straight from the grill.
(5) The spleens of a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus was histo-anatomically studied.
(6) New Tesco House – the squat 1970s tower block on a grim industrial estate that the supermarket has called home for more than 40 years – used to be held up by former boss Sir Terry Leahy as a symbol of the “no-frills” corporate culture that was good for customers.
(7) They didn't seem to mind, but a group of young, well-dressed girls turned their noses up ... whether at us or at the no-frills service I wasn't sure.
(8) Baiano's no-frills bar existed several years before pacification and has become all the more happening since, attracting visitors from outside the favela.
(9) Three molecular forms of immunoglobulins: pentamer, dimer and monomer, were isolated from serum of the frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, the most primitive extant shark.
(10) The squeeze is encouraging shoppers to go to "no frills" chains such as Lidl and Iceland, which posted sales uplifts that were streets ahead of that of the big four supermarkets.
(11) At night, in Rome's no-frills Teatro Olimpico, on the banks of the Tiber, the playwright looks more like Humpty Dumpty than Italy's Prime Minister.
(12) As chairman of easyJet since 2010, he has been embroiled in rows with the no-frills airline's founder and largest shareholder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou .
(13) We discovered the no-frills Burmese Restaurant and Library (there is no library) in one of those moments.
(14) Was this always the plan, to go so ludicrously ballistic years ahead of the next general election, or has the scale of Corbyn’s support in the Labour movement and the novelty of his no-frills personality and raw unplasticated ideas thrown Tory spinmeisters into a panic?
(15) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
(16) Price: £9.95 Polar Gear travel mug from Robert Dyas This is a no-frills stainless steel travel mug – it will keep your coffee hot and your soft drinks cool.
(17) Picking up on Tory-run Barnet council's idea of running no-frills services like budget airline Ryanair, Miliband said: "The Ryanair model may be an OK way to run an airline but it is no way to run a hospital, a care home or any of our public services."
(18) KINDLE free Amazon's e-reader app narrowly gets the nod over Apple's own iBooks, with fewer visual frills but a large collection of ebooks, including regular discounts and offers.
(19) EasyBook could recruit the chair of the Booker judges, Stella Rimington , as CEO and offer a no-frills novel-reading experience that goes from A to B and does not tax the brain.
(20) No frills - we'll pick out all the most essential details you need to know.