Brow vs Verge - What's the difference?
brow | verge | Synonyms |
The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow ().
* Churchill
The first tine of an antler's beam.
The forehead ().
* Shakespeare
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, chapter=5 The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
(nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
(nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
An eyebrow.
* Shakespeare
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
* Milton
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
# 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.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theoryimplies an absurdity.
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
# The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
#(lb) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
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(lb) The phallus.
#(lb) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
(lb) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
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(lb) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
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(lb) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
Brow is a synonym of verge.
As verbs the difference between brow and verge
is that brow is to bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of while verge is .As a noun brow
is the ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow ().As an adjective verge is
ribbed, veined.brow
English
Noun
(en noun)- And his arched brow , pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
- Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow .
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- the brow of a precipice
- 'Tis not your inky brows , your black silk hair.
Derived terms
* beetle-browed * eyebrowSynonyms
* foreheadVerb
(en verb)- Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.
verge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as (etyl) dedeinz la verge ), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area."Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.Verb
(verg)- Eating blowfish verges on insanity.