(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.
Rapier
Definition:
(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bloody-minded defending was switched to a rapier attack in the blink of an eye.
(2) Rapier added that the money announced in the White House initiative on Monday was not a large amount “in dollars” but was vital in terms of the principle of exploring a new approach to a problem that is “devastating” for those it affects and has blown up relatively recently in some areas.
(3) Until now it has been suggested that he bled to death within a couple of minutes, stabbed only once by a rapier.
(4) As the day went on the column revealed their bewilderment at David Cameron’s resignation, their shock at the Twitterstorm of “keenly worded, rapier-sharp attacks” from remainers, and their son’s suggestion of a therapeutic game of Monopoly.
(5) Rapier said it was the first time law enforcement and public health experts would specifically work together under a federal program to tackle the “new heroin epidemic”.
(6) The ABC report said the soldiers were hunting an insurgent bombmaker codenamed Rapier.
(7) Last weekend’s assault on the social and cultural centre in Hammersmith was carried out with a can of paint, but cut through the west London Polish community like a rapier, until the tip reached Jan Black.
(8) Depay, expected to start instead of the suspended Robin Van Persie but left on the bench in favour of underwhelming Jeremain Lens, added a second at the end from a rapier-like Arjen Robben run and cross.
(9) My consultant's notes refer to the tests simply as "bloods", which sounds nicely cavalier ("Huzzah, sir, pick up your rapier!")
(10) A Rapier short-range air defence system at Blackheath, London, in 2012.
(11) It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.
(12) Rapid rise of heroin use in US tied to prescription opioid abuse, CDC suggests Read more Rapier, who is from a federal law enforcement background, said many police officers had to come around to the idea that many drug addicts need a second or third chance to kick heroin without punishment, and controversial services such as public needle exchanges can work.
(13) The flower-in-buttonhole and smiling anecdote, the rapier mind, the warmth and generosity were his hallmarks.
(14) This is not a regular law enforcement initiative; we don’t just want to put people in jail,” Frank Rapier, the director of the Appalachia regional office of the federal high-intensity drug trafficking area program (HIDTA), told the Guardian.
(15) Everyone is in their own ‘silo’ and there are walls and barriers, which we don’t want in this fight Frank Rapier Experts are scrambling to deal with the rise in overdose deaths sparked by large numbers of people who had become dependent on prescription opioid painkillers then switched to heroin as a result of crackdowns on the flow of illegal or over-prescribed pills and the availability of cheap heroin.
(16) In a characteristic play on his words, Carr has called his current show Rapier Wit.
(17) He was selling some byproducts of Britain’s lucrative shooting industry (byproducts because the main product is “fun”): woodpigeon and 14 woodcock , their rapier-like beaks tucked inside their carcasses.
(18) The cost of insuring loans issued by Greece, Portugal and Ireland soared after Moody's interrupted the wrangling in the EU over how to bail out Greece for a second time with a Rapier missile.