Verge

[vɜːdʒ] or [vɝdʒ]

解释:

(noun.) a grass border along a road.

(noun.) the limit beyond which something happens or changes; 'on the verge of tears'; 'on the brink of bankruptcy'.

(verb.) border on; come close to; 'His behavior verges on the criminal'.

手打:梅格--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

(n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.

(n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.

(n.) A virgate; a yardland.

(n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.

(n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.

(n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

(n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.

(n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.

(n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.

(n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.

(n.) The penis.

(n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

(v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

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同义词及近义词:

n. [1]. Rod, staff, mace.[2]. Edge, brink, border, margin, rim, brim, confine, limit, skirt, point.[3]. Arbor (of a watch-balance), spindle.

v. n. [1]. Tend, incline, slope, lean.[2]. Border, approach, be near.

整理:莫尼卡

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Border, brim, edge, rim, limit, margin, brink, eve

ANT:Heart, depth, center, midst

SYN:Tend, bend, slope, incline, approach, approximate, trend, bear

ANT:Decline, deviate, revert, depart, recede, return, back, retrocede

手打:默文

解释:

n. a slender green branch a twig: a rod staff or mace or anything like them used as an emblem of authority: extent of jurisdiction (esp. of the lord-steward of the royal household): the brink extreme edge: the horizon: a boundary limit: scope opportunity: in gardening the grass edging of a bed or border.—ns. Ver′ger one who carries a verge or emblem of authority: the beadle of a cathedral church: a pew-opener or attendant in church; Ver′gership; Vergette′ (her.) a pallet.

v.i. to bend or incline: to tend downward: to slope: to tend: to border upon.—n. Ver′gency.—adj. Ver′gent.

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