edge
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(satellite adjective) at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" |
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Synonyms: fringe, fringy, marginal |
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(verb) advance slowly, as if by inches |
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Synonyms: inch |
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Related Words: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
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(noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" |
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Related Words: bevel, bezel, brim, camfer, cant, curb, cutting edge, deckle, deckle edge, kerb, knife edge, leading edge, lip, milling, razor edge, rim, side, trailing edge |
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(noun) a strip near the boundary of an object; "he jotted a note on the margin of the page" |
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Synonyms: margin |
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Related Words: border, molding, moulding, roadside, selvage, selvedge, shoulder, slip, strip, wayside |
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(noun) a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition" |
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Related Words: favorable position, superiority |
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(noun) the attribute of urgency; "his voice had an edge to it" |
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Synonyms: sharpness |
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Related Words: urgency |
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(noun) the boundary of a surface |
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Synonyms: border |
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Related Words: bound, boundary, bounds, brink |
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(noun) a line determining the limits of an area |
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Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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Related Words: border, brink, fringe, frontier, line, lower bound, margin, outer boundary, perimeter, periphery, rim, thalweg, threshold, upper bound, verge |
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(verb) lie adjacent to another; "Canada adjoins the U.S." |
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Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on |
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Related Words: adjoin, meet, neighbor, neighbour, touch |
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