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body | edge |

As nouns the difference between body and edge

is that body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children while edge is the boundary line of a surface.

As a verb edge is

to move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

body

English

(wikipedia body)

Noun

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  • Physical frame.
  • # The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
  • I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
  • # The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
  • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  • # A corpse.
  • Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
  • #
  • #* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 463:
  • Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
  • #* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
  • Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body 's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
  • #* , chapter=5
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
  • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
  • Main section.
  • # The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
  • The boxer took a blow to the body .
  • # The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
  • The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
  • # (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
  • Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
  • # The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
  • # A bodysuit.
  • # (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
  • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  • Coherent group.
  • # A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
  • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  • # An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
  • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  • # A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
  • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  • Material entity.
  • # Any physical object or material thing.
  • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  • # (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
  • #* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
  • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
  • # (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
  • The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
  • # An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
  • #* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
  • In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
  • #* 2012' March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, " World's largest extrusive '''body of sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
  • Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
  • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
  • (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  • a nonpareil face on an agate body

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)

    See also

    * corporal * corporeal

    Verb

  • To give body or shape to something.
  • To construct the bodywork of a car.
  • To embody.
  • * 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
  • I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.

    References

    * Compact Oxford English Dictionary * MSN encarta

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    edge

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The boundary line of a surface.
  • (label) 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=December, author=Paul Voss
  • , magazine=(IEEE Spectrum), title= Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation , passage=It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.}}
  • 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.
  • * (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline)'', Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare , Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London, page 49,
  • No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
  • * 1833 , Adam Clarke (editor), (w)'', II, 12, ''The New Testament , page 929,
  • And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges :
  • A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost)'', Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, (George Steevens) (editor), ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare , Volume 1, page 166,
  • Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost)'', 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), ''The Poetical Works of John Milton , Volume 1, page 32,
  • In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
  • * 1820 , , (Ivanhoe)'', 1833, ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 3, page 9,
  • .
  • Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • * , (Jeremy Taylor), Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2'', ''The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor , 1841, page 69,
  • Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
  • * 1820 , , (Ivanhoe) , 1827, page 175,
  • we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
  • The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
  • * 1853 (1670), (John Milton), Charles R. Sumner (translator), (The History of Britain)'', ''The Prose Works of John Milton , Volume V, page 203,
  • supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
  • (label) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  • * 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
  • Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
  • (label) 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 .
  • Synonyms

    * (advantage) advantage, gain * (sharp terminating border) brink, lip, margin, rim, boundary * (in graph theory) line

    Derived terms

    * bottom edge * inside edge * live on the edge * on edge * outside edge * top edge

    See also

    * Mathworld article on the edges of polygons * Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra * Science book

    Verb

    (edg)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.}}
  • (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  • (cricket) 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.
  • * 2005 , Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More , Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
  • If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
  • To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • * Dryden
  • to edge her champion's sword
  • (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • * Hayward
  • By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged .
  • To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
  • * 2011 , Nicholson Baker, House of Holes , page 181
  • “I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
  • * 2012 , Ryan Field, Lasting Lust: An Anthology of Kinky Couples in Love , page 33
  • Paul had been edging since the first young guy started to fuck, and he wanted Paul to come inside his body that night.
  • * 2012 , Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44
  • His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.

    Derived terms

    * edge out * edge up * re-edge / reedge

    Quotations

    * 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera , silent movie *: In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!

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