margin
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 9 senses of margin. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: The edge or border of any flat surface. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge. 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
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Definition: The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group. From a source of medium confidence.
figuratively
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- As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins. 1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186:
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Definition: A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores. From a source of medium confidence.
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- margin of victory Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision. 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
- in Kentucky, for example, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a nearly two-to-one margin 2017 March 9, James P. Pinkerton, “A Deus ex Machina for the Climate Change Problem”, in The American Conservative:
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Definition: A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. From a source of medium confidence.
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- margin of error Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: 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. From a source of medium confidence.
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- The purchaser then hands over this margin to the person with whom he hypothecates the Stock. 1848, William Armstrong, Stocks and Stock-Jobbing in Wall-Street:
- If you borrow from your broker via trading on margin, you need to add monthly margin interest charges to your trading costs as well. 2017, Joe Duarte, Trading Options For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 140:
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Definition: That which is ancillary; periphery. From a source of medium confidence.
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- This model merely nips at the margins. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The shape of the edge of a leaf. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Red Whortleberry leaves have a crenate margin. 1878, George Sampson V. Wills, A manual of vegetable materia medica - Issue 359, page 67:
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Etymology: From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo. From a source of medium confidence.
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