verge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /vɜːd͡ʒ/    美 /vɜːd͡ʒ/|/vɝd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. 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. UK,historical
  3. 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. 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. Australia,New-Zealand,UK,Western
    — The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.
  5. An edge or border.; An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen. figuratively
    — I was on the verge of tears.
  6. The phallus. obsolete
  7. The phallus.; The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. obsolete
  8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  9. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
    — The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.
  10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  11. 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. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
动词 v.
  1. To be or come very close; to border; to approach. intransitive
    — Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
  2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

词形变化

verges plural verges present,singular,third-person verging participle,present verged participle,past verged past

词汇关系

近义词
berm besidewalk boulevard boulevard strip city easement common county strip curb lawn curb strip devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip drivestrip/drive strip easement extension lawn furniture zone grass bay grassplot hellstrip island strip landscape zone long acre median mow strip nature strip neutral ground parking parking strip parkrow parkstrip/park strip parkway parkway strip planter zone planting strip right-of-way road allowance road verge roadside shoulder sidewalk buffer sidewalk lawn sidewalk plot sidewalk strip street lawn subway swale terrace tree belt tree box tree lawn utility strip verge
衍生词
on the verge on the verge of road verge soft-verge verge escapement verger verge staff converge convergence convergent diverge divergence divergent verge on

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin vergō (“to bend, turn, tend toward, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to turn”), from a root *wer- (“to turn, bend”) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.
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