-edged

Definition

edge /edʒ/ n ၁။ [C] အစြန္။ အစြန္း။ အဖ်ား။ အနား။ အစပ္။ 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) အနားေစာင္း။ ေစာင္း။ Stand the coin on its edge. (ခ) အသြား။ a knife with a sharp edge. ၃။ (usu the edge ) [sing] တဲတဲအေျခအေန။ [ဥ] ႏႈတ္ခမ္းဝ။ species on the edge of extinction ❍ The country was brought to the edge of war. See also CUTTING EDGE ၄။ [sing] ႏွာတစ္ဖ်ားပိုသာမႈ။ The company needs to improve its competitive edge. ❍ ( infml ) The younger man definitely had the edge (on his opponent). ၅။ [sing] ထက္ျမက္မႈ။ စူးရွမႈ။ a hard political edge. ထိေရာက္ စူးရွသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအကဲသာမႈ။ ❍ The tart fruit gives the sauce a fresh edge. ၆။ [sing] ေဒါသသံ။ မေက်နပ္သံ။ 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) အနားကြပ္သည္။ အနားသတ္သည္။ a road edged with grass ❍ The handkerchief is edged with white lace. ၂။ (က) ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း ေရႊ႕သည္။ The climber edged carefully along the narrow rock ledge. ❍ I edged (my chair) towards the door. ❍ The crowd gradually edged its way forward. (ခ) တအိအိႏွင့္တက္သည္၊ က်သည္။ Share prices edged up by 1.5% over the year. ❏ -edged /edʒd/ (နာမဝိေသသနေပါင္းစပ္ပုဒ္)။ အသြားပါ ေသာ။ အနားသတ္ထားေသာ။ a blunt-edged razor ❍ a lace-edged cloth. ❏ edge sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] တျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္ ေဘးသို႔ေရာက္သြားေစသည္။ ေဘးသို႔ တြန္းထုတ္လိုက္သည္။ The new model has edged all the competitors out of the market. ❏ edging /'edʒÇŋ/ n [U, C] အကြပ္။ အနားသတ္။ a/some lace edging on a dress. ❏ (be) on edge [ IDM ] ေနမထိထိုင္မထိ၊ ေျခမကိုင္မိ လက္မကိုင္မိ (ျဖစ္ရသည္)။ She was a little on edge till she heard he had passed. ❏ on the edge of one's seat [ IDM ] ရင္တမမႏွင့္ ဖင္တႂကြႂကြ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ The final scene had the audience on the edge of their seats. ❏ take the edge off sth [ IDM ] ေလ်ာ့ပါးေစသည္။ The sandwich took the edge off my appetite.

Examples

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