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Frill vs Edging - What's the difference?

frill | edging | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between frill and edging

is that frill is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle while edging is something that forms, defines or marks the edge.

As verbs the difference between frill and edging

is that frill is to make something into a frill while edging is present participle of lang=en.

frill

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
  • (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  • A luxury.
  • Something extraneous added for effect.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills , ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

    See also

    * jabot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something into a frill.
  • To become wrinkled.
  • To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
    • to frill a cap
  • To shake or shiver as with cold.
    • The hawk frills .
    (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * frilly * no frills * turkey frills

    edging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • (orgasm control)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that forms, defines or marks the edge.
    • The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark.
  • (rock climbing) Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
  • The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

    • Antonyms

    * (climbing) smearing