Definition of Edge

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Definition of Edge

Edge

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.

Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.

To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.

To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.

To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

To sail close to the wind.

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Edge Quotations

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
David Ogilvy

We live at the edge of the miraculous.
Henry Miller

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley

Edge Translations

edge in Afrikaans is oewer
edge in Danish is bred, rand
edge in Dutch is wal, kant, kust, boord, oever
edge in Finnish is ranta, reuna
edge in French is bord, rive, encoignure
edge in Latin is acies, mucro, labrum, ambitus, ora
edge in Norwegian is egg, kant
edge in Portuguese is borda, margem
edge in Spanish is canto, borde, orilla

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