Edge vs. Lip

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

Lipnoun

(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

Lipnoun

(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

Lipnoun

The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

Lipnoun

Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

Lipnoun

The edge of a high spot of land.

Lipnoun

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

Lipnoun

(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

Lipnoun

(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.

Lipnoun

(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Lipnoun

Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

Lipverb

(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

Lipverb

(of something inanimate) To touch lightly.

Lipverb

To wash against a surface, lap.

Lipverb

(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

Lipverb

(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

Lipverb

(transitive) To utter verbally.

Lipverb

(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

Lipverb

(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

Lipverb

To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Lipnoun

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

Lipnoun

An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

Lipnoun

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

Lipnoun

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

Lipnoun

One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Lipnoun

Impudent or abusive talk; as, don't give me any of your lip.

Lipverb

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

Lipverb

To utter; to speak.

Lipverb

To clip; to trim.

Lipnoun

fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth

Lipnoun

an impudent or insolent rejoinder;

Lipnoun

the top edge of a vessel

Lip

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of many animals, including humans. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech.