Margin
['mɑːdʒɪn] or ['mɑrdʒən]
Definition
(noun.) an amount beyond the minimum necessary; 'the margin of victory'.
(noun.) the blank space that surrounds the text on a page; 'he jotted a note in the margin'.
(noun.) the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities.
(noun.) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.
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Definition
(n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
(n.) Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.
(n.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.
(n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To furnish with a margin.
(v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Border, edge, rim, brim, verge, brink, confine, limit, skirt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Edge, lip, boundary, latitude, room, loophole, brink, extremity
ANT:Figure, space, centre, limitation, restriction, stringency
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Definition
n. an edge border: the blank edge on the page of a book: something allowed more than is needed in case of unforeseen things happening: a sum of money or its value in securities deposited with a broker to protect him against loss on transactions made on account: a deposit made by each of two brokers parties to a contract when one is 'called up' by the other.—v.t. to furnish with margins enter on the margin.—ns. Marge Marg′ent (poet.) edge brink.—adjs. Marged; Mar′ginal pertaining to a margin: placed in the margin.—n. Marginā′lia notes written on the margin.—v.t. Mar′ginalise to furnish with notes.—adv. Mar′ginally.—adjs. Mar′ginate -d having a margin; Mar′gined.—Marginal credit a method by which a merchant at home can render bills drawn upon him abroad saleable there by associating a well-known banker's name on their margin with his own; Marginal notes notes written or printed on the margin of a book or writing.
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Examples
- Before turning to retrace his steps, he stopped upon the margin, to look down at the reflected night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And there, on the margin of the page, were the partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half of the thumb. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This narrow margin of grass between the path and the flower-bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the low margin of the heath in one direction, and afar on the other hand rose Mistover Knap. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With a darkening face my friend strode along the margin, eagerly observant of every muddy stain upon the mossy surface. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- His favourite horse was found grazing by the margin of the tranquil river. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On the margin was written, in Holmes's precise hand: The second most dangerous man in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had taken a crayon from the tutor's desk, and was drawing little leaves, fragments of pillars, broken crosses, on the margin of the book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He only wrote on the margin, Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the margins are the perforations necessary to feed the film through the machine head. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I found several of his notes in the margins. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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