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edge

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

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strand

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /st?ænd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /st?ænd/, [st???nd]
  • Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (strand, sea-shore, shore), from Proto-Germanic *strand? (edge, rim, shore), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (strand, border, field), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (to broaden, spread out). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand.

Noun

strand (plural strands)

  1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
  2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
  3. A small brook or rivulet.
  4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
  5. A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).
Alternative forms
  • strond (obsolete)
Translations

Verb

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
    Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
Synonyms
  • (run aground): beach
  • (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert
Translations

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (strand). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (a rope, cord), from Middle High German stren, strene (skein, strand), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *stren?, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (strip, strand), from Proto-Indo-European *str?y-, *ster- (strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row); related to Dutch streen (skein, hank of thread, strand, string), German Strähne (skein, hank of thread, strand of hair).

Noun

strand (plural strands)

  1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  2. A string.
  3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
    strand of spaghetti
    strand of hair.
  4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  6. (figuratively) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
    strand of truth
    • 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis ?ISBN, page 78
      She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.
  7. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:string
Derived terms
  • do the strand
Translations

Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.

Verb

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

  1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
  2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.

Anagrams

  • Arndts, drants

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch strand, from Middle Dutch strant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strant/

Noun

strand (plural strande, diminutive strandjie)

  1. beach

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse str?nd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stran/, [sd???n?]

Noun

strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)

  1. beach
  2. shore, seashore
  3. seaside

Inflection

Derived terms

Verb

strand

  1. imperative of strande

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /str?nt/
  • Hyphenation: strand
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch strant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

strand n (plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)

  1. beach, strand
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: strand

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

strand

  1. first-person singular present indicative of stranden
  2. imperative of stranden

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Strand.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??tr?nd]
  • Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

strand (plural strandok)

  1. beach (a sandy shore of a body of water used for summertime leisure, swimming, suntanning)
  2. pool, swimming pool (an urban open-air facility with lawns, trees and several artificially constructed pools, used for summertime leisure)

Declension

Derived terms

  • strandol
  • strandos

(Compound words):

  • strandcip?
  • strandpapucs
  • strandtáska

References

Further reading

  • strand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From stranda (to run aground).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

strand n (genitive singular strands, nominative plural strönd)

  1. running aground, stranding

Declension


Middle English

Alternative forms

  • strande
  • stround, stronde, strond

Etymology

From Old English strand.

Noun

strand (plural strandes)

  1. (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline

Descendants

  • English: strand
  • Scots: strand
  • Yola: sthroane

References

  • “str??nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse str?nd

Noun

strand f or m (definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

  1. a beach or shore
Derived terms
  • nakenstrand
  • sandstrand
  • strande
  • strandlinje

Etymology 2

Verb

strand

  1. imperative of strande

References

  • “strand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse str?nd. Akin to English strand.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /str?nd/, /str?n?/

Noun

strand f (definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

  1. a beach or shore

Derived terms

  • nakenstrand
  • sandstrand
  • strande
  • strandlinje

References

  • “strand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strand?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /str?nd/

Noun

strand n

  1. beach
  2. shore

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: strand, strande
    • English: strand
    • Scots: strand
    • Yola: sthroane
  • ? Old French: estrande, estran

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strand? (edge; shore).

Noun

strand n

  1. beach

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: strand, strant m
    • Plautdietsch: Straunt

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish strand, from Old Norse str?nd, from Proto-Germanic *strand?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt-.

Pronunciation

Noun

strand c

  1. beach (not necessarily sandy)
  2. shore

Declension

Related terms

References

  • strand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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