Margin vs. Edge — What's the Difference?

The edge or border of something

The outside limit of an object, area, or surface

An amount by which something is won

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

Provide with an edge or border

A quality or factor which gives superiority over close rivals

Deposit an amount of money with a broker as security for (an account or transaction)

Provide with a border or edge

An edge and the area immediately adjacent to it; a border.

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

The blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page.

Give an intense or sharp quality to

A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable

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

An amount allowed beyond what is needed

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

A measure, quantity, or degree of difference

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

The minimum return that an enterprise may earn and still pay for itself.

The degree of sharpness of a cutting blade.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of securities or commodities.

A penetrating, incisive quality

The difference between the market value of collateral and the face value of a loan.

A slight but noticeable sharpness, harshness, or discomforting quality

An amount in money, or represented by securities, deposited by a customer with a broker as a provision against loss on transactions made on account.

Keenness, as of desire or enjoyment; zest

(Botany) The border of a leaf.

The line or area farthest away from the middle

To provide with a margin.

The line of intersection of two surfaces

To be a margin to; border.

A rim or brink

To inscribe or enter in the margin of a page.

The point at which something is likely to begin

To add margin to

A margin of superiority; an advantage

To deposit margin for

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

To buy or hold (securities) by depositing or adding to a margin.

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

(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

To put a border or edge on

The edge or border of any flat surface.

To act as or be an edge of

(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.

To advance or push slightly or gradually

A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.

To trim or shape the edge of

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

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

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

To move gradually or hesitantly

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.

The boundary line of a surface.

That which is ancillary; periphery.

(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.

(transitive) To add a margin to.

An advantage.

(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.

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.

To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).

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

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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

Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

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

The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

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

Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.

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

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. It is usually less than the full value of the security purchased, in which case it may be qualified by the portion of the full value required to be deposited; as, to buy stocks on 50% margin.

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

To furnish with a margin.

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

To enter in the margin of a page.

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

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

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

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

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

The amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

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

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

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

The blank space that surrounds the text on a page

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

A strip near the boundary of an object;

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;