different between edge vs lin

English

Etymology

From Middle English egge, from Old English e??, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agj? (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aci?s (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “needle”), ???? (akm?, “point”), and Persian ??? (?s, “grinding stone”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?/
• Hyphenation: edge
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

edge (plural edges)

1. The boundary line of a surface.
2. (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.
3. An advantage.
   • 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:

     Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."

4. (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.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London, page 49:

     No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;

   • 1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929:

     And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:

5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, George Steevens (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1, page 166:

     Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1, page 32:

     In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults

   • 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1833, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3, page 9:

     they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours

6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2, The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, 1841, page 69:

     Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.

   • 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1827, page 175:

     we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.

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

   in the edge of evening

   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203

     supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.

8. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
   • 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet

     Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper

9. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10. In human sexuality, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.

Synonyms

• (advantage): advantage, gain
• (sharp terminating border): brink, boundary, lip, margin, rim
• (in graph theory): line

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

• edge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Mathworld article on the edges of polygons
• Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra

Verb

edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)

1. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged the book across the table.

   The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.

2. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

   He edged away from her.
3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
4. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
5. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
6. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
   • 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,

     If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.

7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
   • 1690, Richard Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy

     To edge her champion sword

8. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt

     By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.

9. (intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
   • 2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44

     His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.

Translations

Derived terms

(See above.)

Quotations

• 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

  In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!

Anagrams

• geed

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-Germanic *linnan? (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Homophone: Lynn
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].

   • 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):

     Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.

   • 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, I. 238:

     He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.

Derived terms

• blin

Etymology 2

See English linn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. Alternative spelling of linn
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 9 p. 134[1]:

     And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring

   • c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:

     Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.

   • 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":

     Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.

   • 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:

     A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.

   • 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:

     O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,

     But kept my heart aboon,

     Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,

     By Locher ' s roaring lin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lin, from Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/, /la?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)

   a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel

   • 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:

     […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1864, Preston, Poems, 8:

     A yerd a gooid lin check.

   • 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:

     Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.

   • 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:

     Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

References

• lin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -nil-, NIL, nil

Cornish

Etymology 1

Noun

lin f (singulative linen)

1. linen

Etymology 2

Noun

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Pronoun

lin

1. accusative of li; him

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin l?num, from Proto-Indo-European *l?no-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lin m (plural lins)

1. linen
2. flax (the plant)

Related terms

• ligne
• linge

Further reading

• “lin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Nil

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin l?num.

Noun

lin m

1. linen
2. flax

Related terms

• linie

Galician

Verb

lin

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lijn, from Middle Dutch l?ne, from Old Dutch *l?na, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?n]
• Hyphenation: lin

Noun

lin

1. line

   Synonym: garis

2. band

   Synonym: pita

3. a route, a line (of transport, especially of public transport and airlines).

   Synonym: jalur

Further reading

• “lin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Mandarin

Romanization

lin

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

lin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lin m (oblique plural lins, nominative singular lins, nominative plural lin)

1. line (lineage; descent)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?in/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lin?, further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *linjati, see Russian ???? (lin?).

Noun

lin m anim

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lin f

1. genitive plural of lina

Further reading

• lin in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

Adjective

lin m or n (feminine singular lin?, masculine plural lini, feminine and neuter plural line)

1. even, smooth
2. calm, quiet
3. mild, gentle, sweet

Declension

Synonyms

• (even, smooth): neted
• (calm, quiet): calm, lini?tit
• (mild, gentle): blând

Derived terms

• lini?te

See also

• senin

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lin)

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology

From Old Norse lín, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Cognate with English linen.

Noun

lin n

1. flax (plant)

Declension

Related terms

• linberedning
• linblomma
• linfält
• linolja
• lintråd
• linne

See also

• lina

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin l?num. Compare Italian lino

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. flax
2. linen (fibre)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/

Noun 1

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Mutation

Noun 2

lin

1. Soft mutation of llin.

Mutation