Marginal
['mɑːdʒɪn(ə)l] or ['mɑrdʒɪnl]
Definition
(adj.) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; 'marginal industries' .
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a margin.
(a.) Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
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Examples
- They could have been embodied by interlineations and marginal notes in the ordinary way, and certainly would not have required more than ten or fifteen minutes of his time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They have no marginal indices, it is true; but that perhaps is asking for too much at present. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And having made this marginal note, would try the Housewife again, with all her dimples screwed into an expression of profound research. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Take your supper, ladies, said he, seeming to be occupied in making marginal notes to his Williams Shackspire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the flowers of Saponaria officinalis Dr. Masters has observed instances of both marginal and free central placentation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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