Corner vs. Edge

Cornernoun

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

Cornernoun

The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.

Cornernoun

The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

Cornernoun

An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

Cornernoun

An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.

Cornernoun

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

Cornernoun

A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.

Cornernoun

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

Cornernoun

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

Cornernoun

(baseball) First base or third base.

Cornernoun

(football) A corner kick.

Cornernoun

(American football) A cornerback.

Cornernoun

(boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.

Cornernoun

The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.

Cornernoun

A place where people meet for a particular purpose.

Cornernoun

(obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.

Cornernoun

Someone or something that corns.

Cornerverb

(transitive) To drive (someone) into a corner or other confined space.

Cornerverb

(transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

Cornerverb

To get or attempt to get a sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

Cornerverb

To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

Cornerverb

To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

Cornernoun

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

Cornernoun

The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

Cornernoun

An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.

Cornernoun

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

Cornernoun

Direction; quarter.

Cornernoun

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.

Cornernoun

A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.

Cornerverb

To drive into a corner.

Cornerverb

To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

Cornerverb

To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

Cornernoun

a place off to the side of an area;

Cornernoun

the point where two lines meet or intersect;

Cornernoun

an interior angle formed be two meeting walls;

Cornernoun

the intersection of two streets;

Cornernoun

the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;

Cornernoun

a small concavity

Cornernoun

a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;

Cornernoun

a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

Cornernoun

a projecting part that is corner-shaped;

Cornernoun

a remote area;

Cornernoun

(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

Cornerverb

gain control over;

Cornerverb

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

Cornerverb

turn a corner;

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