edge vs shoehorn

edge

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

  • 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 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 move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 

  • 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. 

shoehorn

verb
  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

noun
  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

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