verge
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- 2.
An edge or border.
- 3.
(obsolete)The phallus.
- 4.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- 5.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- 6.
(architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- 7.
(architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- 8.
(horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
- 2.
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
Nguồn gốc từ
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 - dedeinz la verge), i.e.