verge: Bedeutung und Definitionen

The extreme edge or margin; a border. See Synonyms at border.

An enclosing boundary.

The space enclosed by such a boundary.

The point beyond which an action, state, or condition is likely to begin or occur; the brink: on the verge of tears; a nation on the verge of economic prosperity.

Architecture The edge of the tiling that projects over a roof gable.

Chiefly British The shoulder of a road.

A rod, wand, or staff carried as an emblem of authority or office.

Obsolete The rod held by a feudal tenant while swearing fealty to a lord.

The spindle of a balance wheel in a clock or watch, especially such a spindle in a clock with vertical escapement.

The male organ of copulation in certain invertebrates.

To approach the nature or condition of something specified; come close. Used with on: a brilliance verging on genius.

To be on the edge or border: Her land verges on the neighboring township.

To slope or incline.

To tend to move in a particular direction: "the Neoclassicism ... away from which they subsequently verged” ( Hugh Honour).

To pass or merge gradually: dusk verging into night.