Noun: margin
| Singular | margin |
| Plural | margins |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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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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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margin of victory
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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:]
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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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margin of error
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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:]
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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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This model merely nips at the margins.
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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:]
Nouns inflected like margin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
margyn'.
Verbs referencing "margin"
Swedish Nouns
mark.