Word Finder - edges

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The boundary line of a surface.

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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.

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An advantage.

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I have the edge on him.

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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.

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A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

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He is standing on the edge of a precipice.

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Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

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The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)

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in the edge of evening

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A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.

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A connected pair of vertices in a graph.

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In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.

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To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

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He edged the book across the table.

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To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

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He edged away from her.

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(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.

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To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.

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To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

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To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.

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To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

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To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

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To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

Darkness was creeping from the edges of his mind.

The micrometer is at zero when the two edges are brought exactly together.

She nestled her face between the rough edges of the leather vest.

The edges of these are now found encircling the mountains and forming a series of fairly continuous rims of hogbacks.

Thin splinters and the sharp edges of fragments are transparent.

She stopped and smiled, holding out the edges of her white dress as if to show it off.

Its centre and end knife edges are shown in fig.

Some of the gems had been carried by gentle waves to the edges of the lake and deposited away from the bulk of the jewels.

It consequently has four vertices and six edges.

Rigid leathery leaves are fixed by means of glue, or, if they present too smooth a surface, by stitching at their edges.

The placards on each of the other doors were blank, the doors closed with no sign of light around the edges.

Kiera lay on the bed an hour after Evelyn left, staring at the white ceiling with its brightly corded edges.

She flattened them against the cool rock and began making her way around the edges.

In Charles II.'s reign shillings were first issued with milled edges.

The setae are organs of locomotion, though their large size and occasionally jagged edges in some of the Polychaeta suggest an aggressive function.

The cones, produced in great abundance, are short and oval in shape, the scales with rugged indented edges; they are deep purple when young, but become brown as they ripen.

The white spruce (Picea alba), sometimes met with in English plantations, is a tree of lighter growth than the black spruce, the branches being more widely apart; the foliage is of a light glaucous green; the small light-brown cones are more slender and tapering than in P. nigra, and the scales have even edges.

This is a groove, the edges of which are raised and ciliated, lying near the branchial plume in the genera which possess that organ, whilst in Firoloida, which has no branchial plume, the osphradium occupies a corresponding position.

The edges of the foot form parapodia, often transformed into fins.

These spiracles have firm chitinous edges, and can be closed by valves moved by special muscles.

More often it consists of a thick felting of silk, either spun in one continuous piece into a globular form, as in the Aviculariidae, or composed of two plate-like pieces, an upper and a lower, united at the edges and lenticular in shape, as in some of the Lycosidae.

The nature of the integument and its hairy clothing in all spiders enables them to be plunged under water and withdrawn perfectly dry, and many species, even as large as the common English house-spider (Tegenaria), are so lightly built that they can run with speed over the surface of standing water, and this faculty has been perfected in genera like Pirata, Dolomedes and Triclaria, which are always found in the vicinity of lakes or on the edges of rivers and streams, readily taking to the water or running down the stems of water plants beneath its surface when pursued.

A crystal may be regarded as built up of primitive parallelepipeda, the edges of which are in the ratio of the crystallographic axes, and the angles the axial angles of the crystals.

Its centre is of volcanic rocks, complex in character, while the Coal-measures and New Red Sandstone appear round the edges.

Some species, especially those of a thick or leathery texture, contract so much in drying that without strong pressure the edges of the paper become puckered.

The pistil, which is above the rest of the members of the flower, consists of two carpels joined at their edges to form the ovary, which becomes two-celled by subsequent ingrowth of a septum from these united edges; a row of ovules springs from each edge.

The free edges of the mantle often bear chitinous bristles or setae which project beyond the shell.

The nerves running to the dorsal parts are white, with black edges; those running to the ventral parts are solid black.

A magnet which can be divided into simple magnetic shells, either closed or having their edges on the surface of the magnet, is called a lamellar magnet, and the magnetism is said to be distributed lamellarly.

Flowers which bloom in the early spring are abundant, especially on the edges of forests.

Simple fibrous narrowing of the gateway of the stomach or of the intestine is dealt with by dividing it longitudinally and then suturing the edges of the wound transversely.

Since the limitation of the width of the central band in the image of a luminous line depends upon discrepancies of phase among the secondary waves, and since the discrepancy is greatest for the waves which come from the edges of the aperture, the question arises how far the operation of the central parts of the aperture is advantageous.

Then the relative retardation of the extreme rays (corresponding to the edges A, B of the grating) is mnX.

In theoretical investigations these problems are usually treated as of two dimensions only, everything being referred to the plane passing through the luminous point and perpendicular to the diffracting edges, supposed to be straight and parallel.

The crocus succeeds in any fairly good garden soil, and is usually planted near the edges of beds or borders in the flower garden, or in broadish patches at intervals along the mixed borders.

The chiton, xcrcww, was formed by sewing together at the sides two pieces of linen, or a double piece folded together, leaving spaces at the top for the arms and neck, and fastening the top edges together over the shoulders and upper arm with buttons or brooches; more rarely we find a plain sleeveless chiton.

As the edges of the wound are brought into accurate apposition there is little or no blood lodged between them, so that an extremely narrow strip of fibrin glues the cut edges together.

For the purpose of rendering this minute examination possible, opposite plane surfaces of the glass are ground approximately flat and polished, the faces to be polished being so chosen as to allow of a view through the greatest possible thickness of glass; thus in slabs the narrow edges are polished.

Prior has introduced an ingenious method of making small oblong and square sheets of coloured glass, which are thick in the centre and taper towards the edges, and which have one surface slightly roughened and one brilliantly polished.

Helmholtz, of the efflux of a jet between two edges A and A 1 in an infinite wall, is obtained by the symmetrical duplication of the above, with n = 1, b = o, a' = - oo, as in fig.

The clear juice when it arrives at the top of the separator flows slowly over the level edges of, a cross canal and passes in a continuous stream to the service tanks of the evaporators or vacuum pan.

The pile is from time to time taken down and rebuilt, the tobacco from the top going to the bottom and that exposed at the edges being turned in to the centre.

Upon the denuded edges of the Scotland beds lies the Oceanic series.

The upper surface of the lateral edges of the mandible has also a number of parallel fine transverse ridge, like those on the bill of a duck.

Grass grows, however, to the very edges of the crater.

During this peculiar locomotion the numerous broad shields of the belly are of great advantage, as by means of their free edges the snake is enabled to catch and use as points of support the slightest projections of the ground.

The capacity of two parallel planes can be calculated at once if we neglect the distribution of the lines of force near the edges of the plates, and assume that the only field is the uniform field between the plates.

In practice we can avoid the difficulty due to irregular distribution of electric force at the edges of the plate by the use of a guard plate as first suggested by Lord Kelvin.

Until modern times the city was built largely on floating pontoons or on piles at the edges of the innumerable canals and water-courses which formed the thoroughfares, but to meet the requirements of modern life, well-planned roads and streets have been constructed in all directions, crossing the old canals at many points and lined with well-built houses, for the most part of brick, in which the greater part of the erstwhile riparian population now resides.

When the disease reaches an advanced stage the leaves are discoloured, yellow or reddish, with their edges turned back, and withered.