Advantage vs. Edge — What's the Difference?

A beneficial factor or combination of factors

The outside limit of an object, area, or surface

Benefit or profit; gain

The sharpened side of the blade of a cutting implement or weapon

A relatively favorable position; superiority of means

A quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals

The first point scored in tennis after deuce.

Provide with a border or edge

The resulting score.

Move or cause to move gradually or furtively in a particular direction

(Sports) A situation in soccer in which the referee has signaled that a foul has been committed but delays making the call because the fouled team has a more favorable position in play. If the fouled team loses this favorable position, the referee then makes the call.

Give an intense or sharp quality to

To afford profit or gain to; benefit.

Strike (the ball) with the edge of the bat; strike a ball delivered by (the bowler) with the edge of the bat

(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.

Ski with one's weight on the edges of one's skis

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

A thin, sharpened side, as of the blade of a cutting instrument.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

The degree of sharpness of a cutting blade.

(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.

A penetrating, incisive quality

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.

A slight but noticeable sharpness, harshness, or discomforting quality

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Keenness, as of desire or enjoyment; zest

(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to

The line or area farthest away from the middle

(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of

The line of intersection of two surfaces

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.

A rim or brink

Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.

The point at which something is likely to begin

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

A margin of superiority; an advantage

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

To give an edge to (a blade); sharpen.

The first point scored after deuce.

To tilt (a ski or both skis) in such a way that an edge or both edges bite into the snow.

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

To put a border or edge on

The quality of having a superior or more favorable position;

To act as or be an edge of

First point scored after deuce

To advance or push slightly or gradually

Benefit resulting from some event or action;

To trim or shape the edge of

Give an advantage to;

To surpass or beat by a small margin. Often used with out

To move gradually or hesitantly

The boundary line of a surface.

(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

An advantage.

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.

A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)

(cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.

(graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.

A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.

The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.

(transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

(intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.

To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.

(transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

(transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.

To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe.

Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.

To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.

To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.

To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

To sail close to the wind.

The boundary of a surface

A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object;

A line determining the limits of an area

The attribute of urgency;

A slight competitive advantage;

A strip near the boundary of an object;

Advance slowly, as if by inches;

Provide with a border or edge;

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;

Provide with an edge;