Verge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. isim 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.
3. isim An edge or border.

   “Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory[…]implies an absurdity.”

4. isim The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.

   “The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.”

5. isim An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.

   “I was on the verge of tears.”

6. isim The phallus.
7. isim The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
8. isim An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
9. isim A circumference; a circle; a ring.

   “The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.”

10. isim The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
11. isim The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.

    “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 .”

12. isim The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
13. fiil To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

    “Eating blowfish verges on insanity.”

14. fiil To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
15. özel isim A surname.