Advantage vs. Edge
Advantagenoun
(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
Advantagenoun
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
Advantagenoun
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Advantagenoun
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
Advantagenoun
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
Advantageverb
(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
Advantageverb
(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
Advantagenoun
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Advantagenoun
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
Advantagenoun
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
Advantagenoun
The first point scored after deuce.
Advantageverb
To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Advantagenoun
the quality of having a superior or more favorable position;
Advantagenoun
first point scored after deuce
Advantagenoun
benefit resulting from some event or action;
Advantageverb
give an advantage to;
Edgenoun
The boundary line of a surface.
Edgenoun
(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
Edgenoun
An advantage.
Edgenoun
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
Edgenoun
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
Edgenoun
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
Edgenoun
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
Edgenoun
(cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
Edgenoun
(graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
Edgenoun
In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
Edgeverb
(transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Edgeverb
(intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Edgeverb
(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
Edgeverb
To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
Edgeverb
(transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
Edgeverb
(transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
Edgeverb
To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Edgeverb
(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
Edgeverb
To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
Edgenoun
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe.
Edgenoun
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
Edgenoun
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
Edgenoun
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
Edgeverb
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Edgeverb
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
Edgeverb
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
Edgeverb
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
Edgeverb
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
Edgeverb
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
Edgeverb
To sail close to the wind.
Edgenoun
the boundary of a surface
Edgenoun
a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object;
Edgenoun
a line determining the limits of an area
Edgenoun
the attribute of urgency;
Edgenoun
a slight competitive advantage;
Edgenoun
a strip near the boundary of an object;
Edgeverb
advance slowly, as if by inches;
Edgeverb
provide with a border or edge;
Edgeverb
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
Edgeverb
provide with an edge;
Edgenoun
the outside limit of an object, area, or surface
Edgenoun
an area next to a steep drop
Edgenoun
the point immediately before something unpleasant or momentous occurs
Edgenoun
the sharpened side of the blade of a cutting implement or weapon
Edgenoun
the line along which two surfaces of a solid meet.
Edgenoun
an intense, sharp, or striking quality
Edgenoun
a quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals
Edgeverb
provide with a border or edge
Edgeverb
move or cause to move gradually or furtively in a particular direction
Edgeverb
give an intense or sharp quality to
Edgeverb
strike (the ball) with the edge of the bat; strike a ball delivered by (the bowler) with the edge of the bat
Edgeverb
ski with one's weight on the edges of one's skis
