edge vs inch

edge

verb
  • To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 

  • 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, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. 

  • To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. 

  • To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. 

  • To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. 

  • To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 

  • To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging. 

  • To win by a small margin. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. 

  • The boundary line of a surface. 

  • An advantage. 

  • 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. 

  • The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time) 

  • A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally. 

  • The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud. 

  • A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax. 

  • A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge. 

  • A connected pair of vertices in a graph. 

inch

verb
  • To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction). 

  • To drive by inches, or small degrees. 

  • To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. 

  • to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner 

adj
  • cocky and cheeky 

noun
  • A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall. 

  • A small island; an islet. 

  • A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh. 

  • Any very short distance. 

  • A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages. 

  • An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb. 

  • Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement. 

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