Marge vs Adjust - What's the difference?
marge | adjust |
Border; margin; edge; verge.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
* 1874 ,
* {{quote-book
, year=1907
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, author=Robert W. Service
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
(colloquial, UK, NZ) margarine.
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
As verbs the difference between marge and adjust
is that marge is while adjust is to modify.marge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) marge, from (etyl) margo, of (etyl) origin.Noun
(en noun)- [...] And thy sea-marge , sterile and rocky-hard,
- Where thou thyself dost air [...]
- the long curved crest
- Which swells out two leagues from the river marge .
Etymology 2
Shortened from the word margarine .Noun
marge (uncountable )Anagrams
* ----adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}