margin

Speech parts

1. margin - Noun

2. margin - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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

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

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.

To furnish with a margin.

To enter in the margin of a page.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

border tolerance rim perimeter allowance leeway space room limit edge boundary periphery fringe verge brink
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Antonyms

center infinity keystone attar mecca oculus
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Hypernyms

place space amount edge net bound

Hyponyms

lip narrowness slimness margin of error narrow margin margin of safety

Phrases with the word

by a very small margin bottom margin by a considerable margin margin up lower margin by a narrow margin

Derivatives

margined marginging

Anagrams

arming griman Ingram Maring Garmin

Examples

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Your margin is my opportunity. Jeff Bezos

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. Plutarch

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. Carl von Clausewitz

Close letter words and terms

margherita margherita pizza Margie margin account margin agreement margin call