Edge vs. Luff
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
Luffnoun
(nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
Luffnoun
(nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
Luffnoun
(nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
Luffnoun
(nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
Luffverb
To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
Luffverb
To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)
Luffverb
to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
Luffverb
(mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
Luffnoun
The side of a ship toward the wind.
Luffverb
To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
Luffverb
To flutter or shake from being aligned close to the direction of the wind; - said of a sail.
Luffnoun
sailing close to the wind
Luffverb
sail close to the wind
Luffverb
flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides;
