Definitions for edges

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edges edge

Spelling: [ej]

IPA: /ɛdʒ/

Edges is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in edges (deegs).

Definitions for edges

noun

1. a line or border at which a surface terminates:
2. a brink or verge:
3. any of the narrow surfaces of a thin, flat object:
4. a line at which two surfaces of a solid object meet:
5. the thin, sharp side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon.
6. the sharpness proper to a blade:
7. sharpness or keenness of language, argument, tone of voice, appetite, desire, etc.:
8. British Dialect. a hill or cliff.
9. an improved position; advantage:
10. Cards. advantage, especially the advantage gained by being the age or eldest hand. eldest hand.
11. Ice Skating. one of the two edges of a skate blade where the sides meet the bottom surface, made sharp by carving a groove on the bottom.
12. Skiing. one of the two edges on the bottom of a ski that is angled into a slope when making a turn.

Idioms

1. have an edge on, Informal. to be mildly intoxicated with alcoholic liquor:
2. on edge, (of a person or a person's nerves) acutely sensitive; nervous; tense. impatient; eager:
3. set one's teeth on edge. tooth (def 21).

Verb phrases

1. edge in, to insert or work in or into, especially in a limited period of time:
2. edge out, to defeat (rivals or opponents) by a small margin:

verb (used with object)

1. to put an edge on; sharpen.
2. to provide with an edge or border:
3. to make or force (one's way) gradually by moving sideways.
4. Metalworking. to turn (a piece to be rolled) onto its edge. to roll (a piece set on edge). to give (a piece) a desired width by passing between vertical rolls. to rough (a piece being forged) so that the bulk is properly distributed for final forging.

verb (used without object)

1. to move sideways:
2. to advance gradually or cautiously:

Origin of edges

before 1000; Middle English egge, Old English ecg; cognate with German Ecke corner; akin to Latin aciēs, Greek akís point

Examples for edges

Another man chimes in: “Today we are living at the edge of suffering.”

The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

Now he scanned the trees on the edge of the clearing with painful anxiety.

French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

Along the edge of the green pines and spruce were lavender asters.

Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.

Looking around him, he at length, from the edge of the valley, descried Robert.

The edge of the garment was curiously wrought with golden palm leaves.

And then they came to the edge of the cliff, where the heel marks ended.

Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.