Edge vs. Nick — What's the Difference?

The outside limit of an object, area, or surface

Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikola, Nicolai or Nicodemus.

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

A small cut or notch

A quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals

Prison

Provide with a border or edge

The junction between the floor and side walls in a squash court or real tennis court.

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

Make a nick or nicks in

Give an intense or sharp quality to

Steal

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

Arrest (someone)

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

Go quickly or surreptitiously

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

A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface

The degree of sharpness of a cutting blade.

Chiefly British Slang A prison or police station.

A penetrating, incisive quality

(Printing) A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

A slight but noticeable sharpness, harshness, or discomforting quality

To cut a nick or notch in.

Keenness, as of desire or enjoyment; zest

To cut into and wound slightly

The line or area farthest away from the middle

To cut short; check

The line of intersection of two surfaces

(Slang) To cheat, especially by overcharging.

A rim or brink

To steal.

The point at which something is likely to begin

To arrest.

A margin of superiority; an advantage

A small cut in a surface.

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

A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

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

A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

To put a border or edge on

Senses connoting something small.

To act as or be an edge of

(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

To advance or push slightly or gradually

(genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

To trim or shape the edge of

The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

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

Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

To move gradually or hesitantly

A police station or prison.

The boundary line of a surface.

(Internet) nickname

(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.

(archaic) A nix or water]] spirit.

An advantage.

(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

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 make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

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

To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).

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

To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

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

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

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

To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.

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

To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

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

To make a cut at the side of the face.

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

To steal.

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

To arrest.

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

To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

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

An evil spirit of the waters.

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

A notch cut into something

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

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.

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

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

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

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

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

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.

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

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

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

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

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

To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).

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

To nickname; to style.

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

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

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

A small cut

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

Cut slightly, with a razor;

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

Cut a nick into

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

Divide or reset the tail muscles of;

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

Mate successfully; of livestock

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;