Marginal vs Realm - What's the difference?
marginal | realm |
(uncomparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) .
# Written in the margin of a book.
#* 1999 , R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes , Boydell Press, page 198:
# (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
(comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
# Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
# (of land) Barely productive.
# (politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
#* 2002 , Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour?s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001 ,
#* 2007 , Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics ,
#* 2010 , Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies ,
(economics, uncomparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
* 2006 , Christian Neef, "
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
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, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
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The domain of a certain abstraction.
* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
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* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
As nouns the difference between marginal and realm
is that marginal is something that is while realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.As an adjective marginal
is (uncomparable) of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) .marginal
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
- In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
- There were more marginal notes than text.
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- His writing ability was marginal at best.
- ''Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal .
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
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- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
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- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
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- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal' to most '''marginal''' for the government on one side, and least '''marginal''' to most ' marginal for the opposition on the other side.
Derived terms
* comarginal * marginal cost * marginal utility * postmarginal * submarginalAnagrams
* ----realm
English
Noun
(en noun)- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm
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- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,
