Synonyms of the word verge


VERGEBORDER - BOUND - BOUNDARY - BRINK - EDGE - LIMIT - SCEPTER - SCEPTRE - STAFF - THRESHOLD - WAND

verge

  • n. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  • n. An edge or border.
  • n. (obsolete) The phallus.
  • n. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  • n. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  • n. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  • n. (architecture) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  • n. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

border

  • n. The outer edge of something.
  • n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
  • n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
  • n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
  • n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
  • v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
  • v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
  • v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

bound

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
  • adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
  • adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
  • adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
  • adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
  • adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
  • adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
  • n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
  • n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
  • v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
  • v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
  • n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
  • n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
  • n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
  • v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
  • adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
  • adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

  • n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
  • n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
  • n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

brink

  • n. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
  • n. (figuratively) The edge or border.

edge

  • n. The boundary line of a surface.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
  • n. An advantage.
  • n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
  • n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  • n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
  • n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  • n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
  • v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  • v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  • v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

limit

  • n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
  • n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  • n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  • n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  • n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  • n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  • n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  • adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
  • v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
  • v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

scepter

  • n. US spelling of sceptre.
  • v. US spelling of sceptre.

sceptre

  • n. (Britain) An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
  • v. To give a sceptre to.

staff

  • n. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in…
  • n. (music, plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
  • n. (plural staff) The employees of a business.
  • n. (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W.
  • n. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
  • n. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
  • n. (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
  • n. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
  • n. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
  • n. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
  • n. (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an…
  • n. Misspelling of staph.
  • v. (transitive) to supply (a business) with employees.

threshold

  • n. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
  • n. (by extension) An entrance.
  • n. The start of the landing area of a runway.
  • n. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
  • n. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
  • n. The outset of an action or project.
  • n. The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things…
  • n. The point of beginning or entry.

wand

  • n. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing.
  • n. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
  • n. a magic wand.
  • n. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
  • n. plural: A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  • v. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

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