neighbour vs verge

neighbour

verb
  • To associate intimately with; to be close to. 

  • To be similar to, to be almost the same as. 

  • To be adjacent to 

noun
  • A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position. 

  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 

  • A fellow human being. 

verge

verb
  • To be or come very close; to border; to approach. 

  • To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. 

noun
  • A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. 

  • The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road. 

  • The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. 

  • An edge or border. 

  • An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland. 

  • The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. 

  • The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. 

  • A circumference; a circle; a ring. 

  • An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen. 

  • The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof. 

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