Margin Definition

märjĭn
margins
noun
margins
A border, edge, or brink.
The margin of the pond.
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The blank space around the printed or written area on a page or sheet.
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A limit to what is desirable or possible.
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An amount of money, supplies, etc. reserved or allowed beyond what is needed; extra amount for contingencies or emergencies.
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Provision for increase, addition, or advance.
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verb
margins
To provide with a margin or border; be a margin to; border.
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To enter, place, or summarize in the margin of a page or sheet.
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To purchase (securities) on margin.
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To deposit a margin upon.
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To add margin to.
Margin up a brokerage account.
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Other Word Forms of Margin

Noun

Singular:
margin
Plural:
margins

Origin of Margin

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin margō margin- merg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin margin-, oblique stem of margo (“edge, brink, border, margin").

    From Wiktionary

Margin Sentence Examples

  • I love a broad margin to my life.

  • The cap is flattened above with a central depression and a thick lobed irregular margin.

  • To the same cause is due the spiny margin of the holly-leaf.

  • The apothecia, though of the normal fungal type and usually disk-shaped, are somewhat more variable, and since the Morphologie and Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und 1 The thalline margin (margo thallinus) is the projecting edge of a special layer of thallus, the amphithecium, round the actual apothecium; the proper margin (margo proprius) is the projecting edge of the apothecium itself.

  • The legs and lower part of the body are dark coloured, but the dorsal surface of the thorax and abdomen is coloured green and is raised so as to form a crest with jagged edges exactly reproducing the irregular margin of a fragment of leaf cut out by the mandibles of the ant.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAR

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NINGIN

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