Edge vs. Nick

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

Nicknoun

A small cut in a surface.

Nicknoun

A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

Nicknoun

A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

Nicknoun

Senses connoting something small.

Nicknoun

(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

Nicknoun

(genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

Nicknoun

(real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

Nicknoun

In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

Nicknoun

A police station or prison.

Nicknoun

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Nicknoun

(archaic) A nix or water]] spirit.

Nickverb

(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

Nickverb

(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

Nickverb

To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).

Nickverb

To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

Nickverb

(transitive) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

Nickverb

To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.

Nickverb

To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

Nickverb

To steal.

Nickverb

To arrest.

Nickverb

To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

Nicknoun

An evil spirit of the waters.

Nicknoun

A notch cut into something

Nicknoun

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.

Nicknoun

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

Nickverb

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

Nickverb

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.

Nickverb

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

Nickverb

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

Nickverb

To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).

Nickverb

To nickname; to style.

Nicknoun

an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Nicknoun

a small cut

Nickverb

cut slightly, with a razor;

Nickverb

cut a nick into

Nickverb

divide or reset the tail muscles of;

Nickverb

mate successfully; of livestock

Nicknoun

a small cut or notch

Nicknoun

prison

Nicknoun

a police station

Nicknoun

the junction between the floor and side walls in a squash court or real tennis court.

Nickverb

make a nick or nicks in

Nickverb

steal

Nickverb

cheat someone of (a sum of money)

Nickverb

arrest (someone)

Nickverb

go quickly or surreptitiously

Nickverb

depart; go away

Nick

Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikola, Nicolai or Nicodemus.