edge

/ɛdʒ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɛdʒ/

edge

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> edge

Myanmar meaning

(n) အစွန်အဖျား

Full entry

edge /edʒ/ n

၁။ [C] အစွန်။ အစွန်း။ အဖျား။ အနား။ အစပ်။ He stood on the edge of the cliff. ❍ Don't put that glass so near the edge of the table. ❍ We went down to the water's edge. ❍ He lives at the edge of the forest. ❍ She tore the page out roughly, leaving a jagged/ragged edge in the book. See also LEADING EDGE
၂။ [C] (က) အနားစောင်း။ စောင်း။ Stand the coin on its edge. (ခ) အသွား။ a knife with a sharp edge.
၃။ (usu the edge ) [sing] တဲတဲအခြေအနေ။ [ဥ] နှုတ်ခမ်းဝ။ species on the edge of extinction ❍ The country was brought to the edge of war. See also CUTTING EDGE
၄။ [sing] နှာတစ်ဖျားပိုသာမှု။ The company needs to improve its competitive edge. ❍ (infml ) The younger man definitely had the edge (on his opponent).
၅။ [sing] ထက်မြက်မှု။ စူးရှမှု။ a hard political edge. ထိရောက် စူးရှသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးအကဲသာမှု။ ❍ The tart fruit gives the sauce a fresh edge.
၆။ [sing] ဒေါသသံ။ မကျေနပ်သံ။ a slight edge of cynicism ❍ She was trying to remain clam, but there was a distinct edge to her voice.
v
၁။ ~ sth (with sth) (usu passive) အနားကွပ်သည်။ အနားသတ်သည်။ a road edged with grass ❍ The handkerchief is edged with white lace.
၂။ (က) ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်း ရွှေ့သည်။ The climber edged carefully along the narrow rock ledge. ❍ I edged (my chair) towards the door. ❍ The crowd gradually edged its way forward. (ခ) တအိအိနှင့်တက်သည်၊ ကျသည်။ Share prices edged up by 1.5% over the year.
❏ -edged /edʒd/ (နာမဝိသေသနပေါင်းစပ်ပုဒ်)။ အသွားပါ သော။ အနားသတ်ထားသော။ a blunt-edged razor ❍ a lace-edged cloth.
❏ edge sb/sth out (of sth) [PHRV ] တဖြည်းဖြည်းနှင့် ဘေးသို့ရောက်သွားစေသည်။ ဘေးသို့ တွန်းထုတ်လိုက်သည်။ The new model has edged all the competitors out of the market.
❏ edging /'edʒÇŋ/ n [U, C] အကွပ်။ အနားသတ်။ a/some lace edging on a dress.
❏ (be) on edge [IDM ] နေမထိထိုင်မထိ၊ ခြေမကိုင်မိ လက်မကိုင်မိ (ဖြစ်ရသည်)။ She was a little on edge till she heard he had passed.
❏ on the edge of one's seat [IDM ] ရင်တမမနှင့် ဖင်တကြွကြွ ဖြစ်နေသော။ The final scene had the audience on the edge of their seats.
❏ take the edge off sth [IDM ] လျော့ပါးစေသည်။ The sandwich took the edge off my appetite.

More examples

Bring the two edges together and fasten them securely.
[edge of] : The railway station was built on the edge of town.
Victoria was sitting on the edge of the bed.
The knife’s edge
[edge to/in] : Had she imagined the slight edge to his voice?
[give over] : Training can give you the edge over your competitors.
There is an edge to his new album that wasn’t there in the last one.

Synonyms

rim, border, perimeter, periphery, edging, boundary, frame, circumference, verge, lip, side, limit, interface, bank, acidity, advantage, allowance, approach, ascendancy, authority, bend, berm, bind, bitterness, bound, brim, brink, bulge, butt, contour, control, corner, creep, crook, crust, curb, decorate, defeat narrowly, dominance, draw, ease, encircle, enclose, end, extremity, file, flank, fringe, frontier, girdle, grind, handicap, harshness, head start, hem, hone, hook, inch, infiltrate, lead, ledge, limb, line, margin, molding, mouth, nose out, odds, outline, outskirt, peak, pick your way, point, polish, portal, power, ring, shape, sharpen, sharpness, shore, sidle, skirt, slip by, slip past, split, squeeze by, squeeze past, start, steal, strand, strop, superiority, surround, term, threshold, tip, tiptoe, trim, trimming, turn, upper hand, vantage, venom, virulence, whet, worm

Antonyms

allow, block, blunt, bottom, center, disadvantage, dull, free, inside, interior, let go, lose, middle, nadir, permit, release, surface, thicken, unbind, wallop

Cross references

rim border perimeter periphery edging boundary frame circumference verge lip side limit interface bank acidity advantage allowance approach ascendancy authority bend berm bind bitterness bound brim brink bulge