существительное · редкое

verge

verge · verges

грань, посох, край, жезл

плече

Rand, Seitenstreifen, äußerster Rand

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

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UK/vɜːd͡ʒ/US/vɝd͡ʒ/

» She was on verge of fainting.

Она была на грани обморока.

Значение

значений: 12

A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
жезлžezl, по́сохpósox
a ceremonial or emblematic staff
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
(Британия, историческое)The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
An edge or border.
a grass border along a road
An edge or border.
(Австралия, Новая Зеландия, Британия, Western)The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
Seitenstreifen, Rand
обо́чинаobóčina, граньgranʹ, крайkraj
(переносно)An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
I was on the verge of tears.
Rand, äußerster Rand
граньgranʹ
the limit beyond which something happens or changes
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
(устаревшее)The phallus.
The phallus.
(устаревшее)The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.

Примеры

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She was on verge of fainting.
Она была на грани обморока.
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Tom was on verge of fainting.
Том был на грани обморока.
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I was on verge of fainting.
Я был на грани обморока.
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She was on the verge of crying.
Она была готова расплакаться.
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Tom was on the verge of tears.
Том едва сдерживал слёзы.
deTom war den Tränen nahe.
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Переводы

языков: 7

Русский

По значениям 3

rod or staff of office:

grassy area between the sidewalk and the street:

edge or border:

Deutsch

По значениям 3

grassy area between the sidewalk and the street:

edge or border:

extreme limit:

Происхождение

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory domin

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.

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