What's the difference between verge and verger?

Verge


Definition:

  • (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
  • (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
  • (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
  • (n.) A virgate; a yardland.
  • (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
  • (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  • (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  • (n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  • (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
  • (n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
  • (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
  • (n.) The penis.
  • (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
  • (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On proctoscopic examination, an anal remnant, measuring approximately 3 cm from the anal verge, could be demonstrated.
  • (2) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
  • (3) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
  • (4) We know that in England there are trusts that are on the verge of bankruptcy and 4,500 nurses have been made redundant .
  • (5) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
  • (6) The national football team were on the verge of a 1974 World Cup place and controversially finished second to Haiti, after losing 2-1 despite scoring five goals – four of which were disallowed – against the hosts in a qualifying tournament staged by the Haitians.
  • (7) The White House is on the verge of a dramatic political victory in Congress after a flurry of last-minute endorsements for its Iran nuclear deal put Democrats within sight of enough votes to spare Barack Obama from needing to veto a motion of disapproval from Congress.
  • (8) In 36 of 41 patients (88%) undergoing a right hemicolectomy, the adenomatous polyp(s) was found within 65 cm from the anal verge.
  • (9) We hope he performs as well as he has always done.” Away from Suárez, Lionel Messi is on the verge of making La Liga history as he sits just one goal behind Telmo Zarra’s record of 251.
  • (10) In patients with Dukes' B tumours, an increased risk of loco-regional recurrence was associated with perineural invasion, tumour located less than 10 cm from the anal verge, patient aged above 70 years, and small tumour size.
  • (11) We report our experience of this technique in six elderly patients (mean age 74 years) with large villous adenomas, situated between 2 and 12 cm from the anal verge.
  • (12) I have played a season with Aston Villa which was a hard season but I think my style is good for the Premier League.” Koeman is looking to advance his transfer dealings before the start of the new campaign with the Wales captain, Ashley Williams, understood to be on the verge of a £10m move from Swansea .
  • (13) Others say the government is on the verge of a compromise with the Kurdish minority and to balance any negative reaction from their own constituency they are playing to the nationalist gallery.
  • (14) If he was on the verge of becoming a "national treasure" to the minuscule percentage of the nation who could identify him by name were they shown a picture of him, this latest episode will have reminded them that there really are bigger and better idiots in public life to get behind.
  • (15) The vote provided the climax to a year of debate in which the bill at times seemed on the verge of passage and at others about to be scrapped.
  • (16) They were also older (68 vs. 65, p = 0.13), had lesions closer to the anal verge (10.2 vs. 11.4 cm, p = 0.07), and had more infectious complications (13.6% vs. 2.6%, 0.05 less than p less than 0.1) than patients without colostomies.
  • (17) A sample of 805 (432 men and 373 women) Israeli "on-time" people on the verge of retirement were interviewed.
  • (18) Europe is on the verge of collapse, yet we can’t even see what’s happening.
  • (19) Flattening of the anal verge and rugae occurred during dilatation by the midpoint of the examination in 44% and 34%, respectively.
  • (20) The lesions were located within 8 cm from the anal verge and consisted of superficial ulcerations, fibrotic scar tissue and rectal stenosis.

Verger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
  • (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
  • (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
  • (n.) A garden or orchard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This description of the group was endorsed Dr Philippe Verger, a WHO official and secretary of the UN panel on glyphosate.
  • (2) The kinetic results presented in the form of double reciprocal plots of initial velocity against bulk PC or interfacial PC concentration were linear according to the Verger et al.
  • (3) Verger told the Guardian: “ILSI is not an independent body.
  • (4) In comparison to the previous procedure reported by Verger, R., de Hass, G.H., Sarda, L and Desnuelle, P. (1969) Biochim.
  • (5) Finally the isoenzymes were separated on CM-cellulose as in the Verger procedure, but under slightly modified conditions.
  • (6) kinetic model (Verger, R., Mieras, M. C. E., and de Haas, G. H. (1973) J. Biol.
  • (7) We previously reported that the inhibition of pancreatic and Rhizopus delemar lipases by proteins is due to the protein associated with lipid and is not caused by direct protein-enzyme interaction in the aqueous phase [Gargouri, Y., Piéroni, G., Rivière, C., Sugihara, A., Sarda, L., & Verger, R. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (8) Several 2-acylaminophospholipid analogues have been demonstrated to behave as potent competitive inhibitors of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (De Haas, G.H., Dijkman, R., Ransac, S. and Verger, R. (1990) Biochim.
  • (9) Verger said: “Every year we evaluate 10-30 compounds, and I can tell you that a lot of them are more dangerous and potent than glyphosate.
  • (10) A. Virtanen, R. Verger, and P. K. J. Kinnunen (1987) Biochim.
  • (11) (Gargouri, Y., Moreau, H., Piéroni, G. and Verger, R. (1988) J. Biol.