Edge
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
To sail close to the wind.
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Edge Quotations
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
Henry Miller
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash
Edge Translations
edge in Afrikaans is oewer
edge in Danish is bred, rand
edge in Dutch is wal, kant, kust, boord, oever
edge in Finnish is ranta, reuna
edge in French is bord, rive, encoignure
edge in Latin is acies, mucro, labrum, ambitus, ora
edge in Norwegian is egg, kant
edge in Portuguese is borda, margem
edge in Spanish is canto, borde, orilla
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