verge

Các nghĩa

1. gậy, trượng (biểu tượng chức vụ)

   A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

   The house was on the verge of collapse.

   The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

   She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

2. bờ, mép, rìa

   An edge or border.

   Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory[…]implies an absurdity.

   But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.

3. ven (đường)

   The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.

   australia · new-zealand · uk · western

   The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.

   On the other side of the car, another armed officer was seen attending to the passenger, who was lying on a grassy verge.

4. bờ vực, giới hạn tột cùng

   An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.

   figuratively

   I was on the verge of tears.

5. đơn vị đo đất cổ (khoảng 30 mẫu Anh)

   An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

6. chu vi, vòng tròn

   A circumference; a circle; a ring.

   The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.

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