different between outside vs edge

English

Alternative forms

• owtside (obsolete)

Etymology

From out +? side.

Pronunciation

• (adjective): enPR: out?s?d, IPA^(key): /?a?tsa?d/
• (adverb, noun, preposition): enPR: out-s?d?, IPA^(key): /a?t?sa?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

outside (plural outsides)

1. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

   He's repainting the outside of his house.

   • 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais, Gargantua, "The Author's Prologue to the First Book"

     Silenes of old swere little boxes, like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries, painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, ...

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,

     The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.

   • 1911, Cab, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.

2. The external appearance of someone or something.

   Her outside was stern, but inside was a heart of gold.

3. The space beyond some limit or boundary.

   Viewed from the outside, the building seemed unremarkable.

   • I in great Transport threw open the Door of my Chamber, and found the greatest Part of the Family standing on the Outside in a very great Consternation

   • 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941,

     Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones? / Do you know what it's like on the outside?

   • 1982, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Malcolm Mclaren, Buffalo Gals

     Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / 'Round the outside / 'Round the outside / Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / And do-si-do your partners.

4. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.

5. The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.

6. The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.

7. (dated, Britain, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     The outsides did as outsides always do. They were very cheerful and talkative at the beginning of every stage, and very dismal and sleepy in the middle […]

Usage notes

• Rarely used with an.

Translations

Adjective

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career,

     Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
2. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 1938 (believed written c.1933), H. P. Lovecraft, The Book,

     Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.

   • 1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles,

     It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.

   • 1993 September 3, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas,

     Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.

3. Away from the interior or center of something.
   • 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics (?ISBN), page 731:

     As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.

4. Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.

   The Board did not trust outside information about their rivals.

   • 1968, Barney G. Glaser, Organizational Careers, Transaction Publishers (?ISBN), page 23:

     Positions in organizations are being vacated continually through death and retirement, promotion and demotion. Replacements may be drawn from the outside ("an outside man") or from within the organization.

5. Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
   • 2004, Viktor Zander, Identity and Marginality among New Australians: Religion and Ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist Community, Walter de Gruyter (?ISBN), page 88:

     Although a marriage to "one of ours" was encouraged, an outside marriage was not condemned if it would be to a believer of a similar faith. Some of the immigrants' children married Australians and joined Australian Churches.

6. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

7. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.

8. Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.

   the outside lane of the motorway

9. (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)

   Antonym: inside

   • 1994, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Gilles Pison, Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary anthropological and demographic perspectives (Oxford University Press, USA):

     Isaac Nathan's Christian wife served as godmother to his outside son, born after their Christian marriage. She allowed the boy, but not his mother, to live with her, her husband, and their two children.

   • 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 158:

     An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]

   • 2009, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Yoruba women, work, and social change (Indiana Univ. Pr.):

     The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one.

   • 2013, John C.S. Fray, Janice G Douglas, Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks, Springer (?ISBN), page 78:

     A husband will thus have responsibilities to his own household, as well as to those in which his “outside” children reside.

   • 2014, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, Gender, Kinship and Power, page 256:

     The latter is her “outside” child in reference to her conjugal tie at the time. Should she leave this man and move in again with the father of her first child, then the three younger children assume the place of “outside” children, [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outside.

Translations

Adverb

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.

   Residents of the city rarely ventured outside.

   2. (colloquial) Not in prison.
      • 1964, Merfyn Turner, A Pretty Sort of Prison, page 15:

        It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal [...] he's lost when he's outside.

2. Outdoors.

Translations

Preposition

outside

1. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
   • 1919 June 28, the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Treaty of Versailles, Part IV—German Rights and Interests outside Germany,

     In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

   • 1982, 97th Congress of the United States, Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,

     There is jurisdiction over an offense under section 601 committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
2. Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.

   tourists from outside the country

3. Near, but not in.
   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds,

     Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.

   • 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, ?ISBN, outside back cover:

     Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

   • 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond Congregations", OY! (magazine section), St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 63, number 50, page 24:

     Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old^[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.

4. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

Antonyms

• inside

Related terms

• withoutside

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• dies out, side out, sudoite, tedious

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