Synonyms:
margin, border, perimeter
Meaning: the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
Synonyms:
margin
Meaning: an amount beyond the minimum necessary; "the margin of victory"
Usage examples
The change crushes hardest the man at the margin of employment.
Only by the merest fractional margin did Brion evade the attack for the second time.
He found that the fuel tanks were nearly full, but that still didn't leave much margin.
In the tropics the margin is converted usually into loafing, in the temperate zones largely into objective forms of enjoyment.
By two o'clock we had crossed the Long Valley Mountains and were on the margin of a sage-covered plain, still probably twenty miles to Pinto.
In the end, he compromised, leaving a small margin for a bad landing that would require a second attempt, but with less practice than he wanted.
"Good!" said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leaving long wakes of black in the silver.
Then, dropping down, Mr. Sharp allowed the monoplane to proceed under its own power, while he raced on to the finish mark, winning, of course, by a large margin.
He smote the water and splashed it toward her, she retaliated, and then they were knee-deep, and then for an instant their feet broke the long silver margin of the sea.
Hence the disastrous cold weather, which caused that winter to be noted as "memorable to the poor," on the margin of the old Bible in the Presbyterian chapel of the Nonjurors in London.