(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.
Uncut
Definition:
(a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.
(a.) Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
(2) 2.35pm BST UK Uncut, the pressure group, says that Chris Grayling's U-turn over legal aid tendering will not stop his proposals undermining justice.
(3) The world is profoundly different from how it was then.” Schneider says Momentum breaks down into trade unionists, “Bennites and post-Bennites” (who share the background of Corbyn, McDonnell and a lot of Momentum’s older activists), and the younger members, who cut their teeth with the anti-tax avoidance activists UK Uncut or the Stop The War coalition.
(4) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
(5) The UK Uncut network, which began as a direct action campaign against corporate tax avoidance in 2010, said it would be organising a day of action on Saturday 13 April.
(6) The name “Sisters Uncut” is a deliberate nod to UK Uncut , the anti-cuts direct action network founded in 2010.
(7) Come on the UK Uncut protests this month, and also make sure you're taking to the streets on 26 March .
(8) "Philip Green is a tax avoider, and yet is regarded by David Cameron as an appropriate man to advise the government on austerity," said UK Uncut's spokesman, 26-year-old Daniel Garvin.
(9) EO: That's why UK Uncut occupies shops like Starbucks .
(10) It was found that: the average maximum residual intimal engineering strain in the uncut configuration was -0.082 for all nine aortas and -0.096 and -0.077 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; the average maximum residual adventitial strain was 0.085 for all aortas, and 0.102 and 0.078 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; an estimated average beneficial compressive stress of -0.188 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of -0.082) is available at the intimal level to counteract the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure; an estimated average initial tensile stress of 0.195 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of 0.085) exists at the adventitial level which adds to the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure.
(11) UK Uncut's previous sit-ins and occupations in the branches of tax dodgers have proved very effective in highlighting the unjust practices of big business."
(12) Prosecutors say the story, if true, would provide evidence that Taylor traded guns to neighbouring Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for uncut diamonds, sometimes known as blood diamonds, during that country's 1992-2002 civil war.
(13) The group being monitored, UK Uncut , will target high-street stores in 20 cities tomorrow, in its latest attempt to draw attention to the estimated £25bn the Treasury loses each year in tax avoidance .
(14) Moreover, DNA isolated from P1 phage and containing an uncut pac site was a poor substrate for in vitro cleavage until it was methylated by the Escherichia coli DNA adenine methyltransferase.
(15) In turn, no 2-DG was detected after treatment with uncut nerve extracts or saline.
(16) Activists from UK Uncut , a campaign group set up five months ago to oppose government cuts and corporate tax avoidance, will stage their first national day of action against the banks on Saturday with protesters expected to bring more than 30 high street branches of Barclays to a standstill.
(17) At that time no such reaction product was observed in the chondrocytes of uncut femurs.
(18) For Symon Hill of the pressure group Christianity Uncut , this is a betrayal of their central mission: "Speaking personally, I wasn't surprised by some of the charities involved in workfare, but I was genuinely shocked by Salvation Army," he tells me.
(19) At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.
(20) UK Uncut, which has also campaigned against Vodafone, Boots and Top Shop, intends to take its first national day of action against the banks on Saturday with protesters expected to bring more than 30 high street branches of Barclays to a standstill.