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  • n.边缘
  • [英] n.边缘 ( border; edge, rim, or margin)

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I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English, rod, measuring rod, margin, from Anglo-French, rod, area of jurisdiction, from Latin virga twig, rod, line
  • Date: 15th century
  • 1.
    • a.
      • (1) a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office
      • (2) obsolete a stick or wand held by a person being admitted to tenancy while he swears fealty
    • b. the spindle of a watch balance; especially a spindle with pallets in an old vertical escapement
    • c. the male copulatory organ of any of various invertebrates
  • 2.
    • a. something that borders, limits, or bounds: as
      • (1) an outer margin of an object or structural part
      • (2) the edge of roof covering (as tiling) projecting over the gable of a roof
      • (3) British a paved or planted strip of land at the edge of a road ; shoulder
    • b. brink, threshold <a country on the verge of destruction — Archibald MacLeish>

II. intransitive verb (verged; verging)

  • Date: 1787
  • 1. to be contiguous
  • 2. to be on the verge or border <the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness — Thomas Hardy>

III. intransitive verb (verged; verging)

  • Etymology: Latin vergere to bend, incline — more at wrench
  • Date: 1610
  • 1.
    • a. of the sun to move or tend toward the horizon ; sink
    • b. to move or extend in some direction or toward some condition <verging to a hasty decline — Edward Gibbon>
  • 2. to be in transition or change


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