How to pronounce “edge”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The boundary line of a surface.
• (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.
• An advantage.
• (also figuratively) 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.
• A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
• (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
• (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
• (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
• (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
• (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.

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