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"word": "on the verge"
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"word": "on the verge of"
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence \"scope, territory dominated\", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning \"male member, penis\" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. \"subject to the Lord High Steward's authority\" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to \"the outermost edge of an expanse or area.\" Doublet of virga.",
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"A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.",
"The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge."
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"A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.",
"(UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge."
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"ref": "2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 129",
"text": "The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.",
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}
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"An edge or border.",
"The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road."
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"sense": "grassy area between the sidewalk and the street",
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"sense": "grassy area between the sidewalk and the street",
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"sense": "grassy area between the sidewalk and the street",
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"text": "I was on the verge of tears.",
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"ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 113",
"text": "The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved – it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason.",
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"(figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen."
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"roman": "predel",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "邊際"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "biānjì",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "边际"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jièxiàn",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "界限"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "ääriraja"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "parras"
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"word": "kynnys"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zɣvari",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "ზღვარი"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "sazɣvari",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "საზღვარი"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"tags": [
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"word": "Rand"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "extreme limit",
"word": "ambang"
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"roman": "granʹ",
"sense": "extreme limit",
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"word": "грань"
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"ref": "1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy",
"text": "Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory[…]implies an absurdity.",
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{
"ref": "1852, Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from Carnac",
"text": "But on the horizon's verge descried,\nHangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.",
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"(obsolete) The phallus."
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"ref": "1885, Edward S. Morse, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings",
"text": "The smaller ribs of tiles that run down to the eaves, along the ridges in a hip-roof, or border the verge in a gable-roof , often terminate in some ornamental tile in high-relief .",
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"ref": "1852, Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from Carnac",
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"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "verged",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "verge (third-person singular simple present verges, present participle verging, simple past and past participle verged)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Eating blowfish verges on insanity."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be or come very close; to border; to approach."
],
"links": [
[
"border",
"border"
],
[
"approach",
"approach"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/vɜːd͡ʒ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/vɝd͡ʒ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-verge.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/En-us-verge.ogg/En-us-verge.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-us-verge.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-verge.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/55/En-au-verge.ogg/En-au-verge.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/En-au-verge.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klonja",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "клоня"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "približavam se",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "приближавам се"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiējìn",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "接近"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "瀕臨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bīnlín",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "濒临"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "grenzen aan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "lähennellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "olla jonkin rajoilla"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "esazɣvreba",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "ესაზღვრება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "grenzen an"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "ambang"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "beirar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "graníčitʹ s",
"sense": "to come very close",
"word": "грани́чить с"
}
],
"word": "verge"
}
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