different between margin vs leeway

English

Etymology

From Middle English margyne, margine, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of marg? (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??d??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???d?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??n

Noun

margin (plural margins)

1. (typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
2. The edge or border of any flat surface.
3. (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
   • 1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,

     As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.

5. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.

   margin of victory

6. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

7. (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
8. (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of N. Biddle to this entry?)

9. That which is ancillary; periphery.

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Verb

margin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)

1. (transitive) To add a margin to.
2. (transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.

Further reading

• margin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• margin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ingram, Maring, arming, raming

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin margo

Noun

margin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginer, definite plural marginene)

1. a margin (most senses)

Synonyms

• marg

Derived terms

• feilmargin

References

• “margin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin margo

Noun

margin m (definite singular marginen, indefinite plural marginar, definite plural marginane)

1. a margin (most senses)

Synonyms

• marg

Derived terms

• feilmargin

References

• “margin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??we?]
• Rhymes: -i?we?

Noun

leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)

1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.

   Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom

   • 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,^[1]

     Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
3. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Related terms

• lee
• leeward

Translations

References

• “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.