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edge | front |

As nouns the difference between edge and front

is that edge is the boundary line of a surface while front is the front end or side of something.

As a verb edge

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

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!

    Anagrams

    *

    front

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
  • The side of a building with the main entrance.
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • A field of activity.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Stephen Ledoux, volume=100, issue=1, page=60, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Behaviorism at 100 , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
  • A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
  • (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
  • (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
  • (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
  • (military) The direction of the enemy.
  • (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
  • (obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
  • (informal) An act, show, , persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
  • * Shakespeare
  • with smiling fronts encountering
  • * Macaulay
  • The inhabitants showed a bold front .
  • (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
  • The most conspicuous part.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the very head and front of my offending
  • (obsolete) The beginning.
  • * Shakespeare
  • summer's front
  • (UK) a seafront or coastal promenade.
  • (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Bless'd with his father's front , his mother's tongue.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front .
  • * Prior
  • His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * back * rear

    Derived terms

    * active front * arctic front * battlefront * beachfront * back to front/back-to-front * bowfront * breakfront * cold front * common front * company front * confront * fly front * forefront * frontage * frontal * front and center * front bench/frontbench * front bottom * front burner * frontcourt * front crawl * front door * front drive * front end/front-end * front-facing * front fee * front foot * front grant * front group * frontispiece * frontless * frontlet * frontline/front line * front load * front man * front matter * front money * frontmost * front name * frontness * front nine * front office * front of house * front of the house * front organization * front page * front porch * front projector * front range * front ring * front room * front row * front runner * front running * front stall/front-stall * front teeth * front vowel * front wall * frontward * frontwards * front-wheel drive * frontwise * front yard * home front * in front * in front of * lakefront * occluded front * oceanfront * out-front * polar front * popular front * riverfront * seafront * shirtfront * shock front * shop front/shopfront * shorefront * stationary front * storefront * up front/upfront * warm front * waterfront * weather front * Y-fronts * zip-front

    Hyponyms

    * (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves) (nautical) (of a ship)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located at or near the front.
  • The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
  • (comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
  • Synonyms

    * (located near the front) first, lead, fore

    Antonyms

    * (located near the front) back, last, rear * (of a vowel) back

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
  • *
  • *:The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin, 2011, p.35:
  • *:The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
  • *1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam, 2011, p.312:
  • *:They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
  • *2010 , Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books , Blog, 26 March:
  • *:The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
  • To face, be opposite to.
  • *1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin, 1985, p.66:
  • *:After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
  • *1813 , (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice :
  • *:down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
  • *1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.49:
  • *:She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
  • To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
  • *, II.6:
  • *:those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
  • *1623 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :
  • *:What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
  • To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
  • *2001 , (Terry Goodkind), The Pillars of Creation , p.148:
  • *:Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
  • (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
  • *2005 , Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology , p.48:
  • *:The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
  • (linguistics) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
  • (slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
  • *2007 , Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher , p.183:
  • *:Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
  • To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
  • *2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian :
  • *:Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
  • (colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
  • *2004 , (Danielle Steele), Ransom , p.104:
  • *:I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
  • To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
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  • *2008 , Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
  • *:Boy don't try to front , / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
  • *2008 Markus Naerheim, The City , p.531
  • *:You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin' .
  • To appear before, as in to front court.
  • Synonyms

    * (assume false appearances) put on airs, feign

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