Edge vs. Border

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

Bordernoun

The outer edge of something.

Bordernoun

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

Bordernoun

A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.

Bordernoun

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

Bordernoun

(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.

Borderverb

(transitive) To put a border on something.

Borderverb

(transitive) To form a border around; to bound.

Borderverb

(transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.

Borderverb

(intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).

Borderverb

(intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).

Bordernoun

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

Bordernoun

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

Bordernoun

A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

Bordernoun

A narrow flower bed.

Borderverb

To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; - with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

Borderverb

To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Borderverb

To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

Borderverb

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

Borderverb

To confine within bounds; to limit.

Bordernoun

a line that indicates a boundary

Bordernoun

the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Bordernoun

the boundary of a surface

Bordernoun

a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

Bordernoun

a strip forming the outer edge of something;

Borderverb

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;

Borderverb

form the boundary of; be contiguous to

Borderverb

enclose in or as if in a frame;

Borderverb

provide with a border or edge;

Borderverb

lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;

Border

Borders are geographic boundaries, imposed either by geographic features such as oceans, or by arbitrary groupings of political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Borders are established through warfare, colonization, or simple symbiotic agreements between the political entities that reside in those areas; the creation of these agreements is called boundary delimitation.