EDGE
Edge
Adam Joseph Copeland is a retired professional wrestler and actor, best known for his time with WWE under the ring name Edge.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Edge (wrestler)
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edge
Noun
- The boundary line of a surface.
- 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.
- An advantage.
- I have the edge on him.
- 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.
- No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The cup is right on the edge of the table.
- He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
Verb
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged the book across the table.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged away from her.
- To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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