Edge vs. Lip — What's the Difference?

The outside limit of an object, area, or surface

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of many animals, including humans. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech.

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

Either of two fleshy structures that surround the opening of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

A quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals

In humans, the smooth brownish to reddish border of the lip.

Provide with a border or edge

(Anatomy) A labium.

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

The margin of flesh around a wound.

Give an intense or sharp quality to

Either of the margins of the aperture of a gastropod shell.

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

A rim, as of a vessel, bell, or crater.

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

(Botany) One of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, as in the snapdragon, or the modified median petal of an orchid flower.

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

The tip of a pouring spout, as on a pitcher.

The degree of sharpness of a cutting blade.

(Slang) Insolent talk.

A penetrating, incisive quality

To touch the lips to.

A slight but noticeable sharpness, harshness, or discomforting quality

To kiss.

Keenness, as of desire or enjoyment; zest

To utter.

The line or area farthest away from the middle

To lap or splash against.

The line of intersection of two surfaces

(Sports) To hit a golf ball so that it touches the edge of (the hole) without dropping in.

A rim or brink

(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

The point at which something is likely to begin

(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

A margin of superiority; an advantage

The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

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

Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

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

The edge of a high spot of land.

To put a border or edge on

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

To act as or be an edge of

(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

To advance or push slightly or gradually

(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.

To trim or shape the edge of

(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

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

Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

To move gradually or hesitantly

(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

The boundary line of a surface.

(of something inanimate) To touch lightly.

(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.

To wash against a surface, lap.

An advantage.

(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

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.

(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

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

(transitive) To utter verbally.

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

(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

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

(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

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

To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

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

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

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

An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

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

The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

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

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

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

One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

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

Impudent or abusive talk; as, don't give me any of your lip.

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

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

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

To utter; to speak.

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

To clip; to trim.

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

Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth

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

An impudent or insolent rejoinder;

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

The top edge of a vessel

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;