edging的意思|edging的解释-里氏词典

edging ['edʒiŋ]

n. 边缘, 边饰

Something that resembles such a border or edging.
穗状物与此种边缘相似的东西
People had crowded around the football star, but Harry succeeded in edging in.
人们团团围住了那位足球明星，但哈里却成功地挤进去。
Shorter words are seen constantly edging away their longer equivalents.
短小的词逐渐取代长的同义词是常见的现象。

edging

[ noun ]
border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
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Edge \Edge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Edging}.]
1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

To edge her champion's sword. --Dryden.

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

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

Hills whose tops were edged with groves. --Pope.

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

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the
malicious edged. --Hayward.

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

Edging \Edg"ing\, n.
1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe,
trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
--Dryden.

2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything,
as of a piece of metal.

{Edging machine}, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for
dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a
pattern or templet.

It expected real growth of 3 per cent or slightly higher, and a further edging down of the unemployment rate. Inflation would be about 3 per cent, or slighly higher than last year.
The current versions of Tax Adviser and Personal Tax Planner leave capital gains tax out altogether. The expensive programs are edging towards the sort of thing an accountant might use.
Sotheby's rival, Christie's International PLC, is also edging downscale.
Credit markets rallied briefly in response to the testimony, with bond prices edging up and interest rates falling slightly.
Where a laser printer prints an entire page at once, the inkjet works by sliding an ink cartridge back and forth across the page, edging the paper forward between scans.
Inflation, though edging upwards recently, remained at an acceptable 4.4 per cent in July. Meanwhile, real wage costs have dropped appreciably.
Republicans Mary Estill Buchanan and Martha Ezzard lost in 1980 and 1986, while Democrat Nancy Dick lost in 1984 after edging Lucero in the primary.
After edging higher at first, the London market crumbled away in late trading as Wall Street came in with a loss of around 30 Dow points in early deals.
Mr. Capaldi and other professional value investors have noticed some stocks in their portfolios edging into selling range in recent weeks.
TheCommerce Department said new home sales totaled a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 550,000 after edging down a revised 0.2 percent in July.
New York SE volume totalled 279m shares. The markets opened with prices edging forward across the board in subdued trading.
The reason for the perverse effect is that Germany and its partners are edging toward monetary union before their economies are truly in sync.
Although the market gave back some of those gains in the early afternoon, the Nasdaq Composite Index was again edging higher as trading ended.
Mr. Hart wins that one, edging out Sen. Kennedy, 26% to 21%.
But with the two-day stock rebound, fund groups said investors were slowing down their exits and, in some cases, edging back into stock and bond funds.
It could be the continuing sand-papering of the investment community by a crude oil price that keeps edging up," Mr. Abrams says.
The dollar began the New York day on a firm note, edging gingerly higher throughout most of the session.
It began edging down in the afternoon and ended trading at 125.43 yen, up 1.06 yen.
The best value for edging is the glossy evergreen one, confusa, but the problem is its cost.
In addition, while West German interest rates remain stable, "Japanese interest rates are gradually edging upward," Mr. Tokunaga said.
King Fahd is preparing to create a royally appointed consultative assembly, edging the kingdom toward greater democracy in a move clearly speeded by Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
On a summer Saturday in 1985, Mr. Latimer spent an hour or so cutting the grass, picking up the clippings and edging the walkways around his modest two-bedroom home.
Peace is edging slowly closer as the Marxist governmen and U.S.-backed rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola pursue sporadic talks in neighboring Zaire.
The September contract, which ceases trading Wednesday, last Tuesday rose to a life-of-contract high of $1.4050 after edging below $1 in early July.
Britain is booming as an arms dealer, supplanting the United States as wealthy Saudi Arabia's biggest supplier and edging out long-time rival France globally as purveyor of everything from bullets to jet fighters.
But interest rates began edging up again in July and most analysts expect the slump in housing, one of the weakest sectors of a growing overall economy, to continue through 1988.
"The Bundesbank is edging toward tightening, but are very aware of the international dangers and will want to follow the United States rather than lead it."
Long-term Treasury bonds fell more than 1/4 point, sending yields edging back above the 7.80% mark.
But forecasters said that because it was already edging northeast toward the open Atlantic when it was born, it was never much of a threat.
The company is now edging into the toothbrush business. Last month it set up a small joint venture plant in Shanghai, employing under 100 people and producing Oral-B toothbrushes - both for sale in the Chinese domestic market and for export.

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