Verge vs Margin - What's the difference?
verge | margin |
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.
(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
The edge or border of any flat surface.
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(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
* 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall,
A difference between results, characteristics, scores.
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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
As verbs the difference between verge and margin
is that verge is while margin is to add a to.As an adjective verge
is ribbed, veined.As a noun margin is
(typography) the edge of the paper that remains blank.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.
References
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(wikipedia margin)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
- The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
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- As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
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- margin of error