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the thin line where nothing yet has happened and everything still might.
means The edge, border, or brink of something — the point just before a state or place begins.
from From Latin 'virga,' a rod, twig, or wand. In medieval usage the verge was literally a staff of office — and the area of jurisdiction it commanded, the ground 'within the verge' of an official's authority. From that bounded zone the word drifted to mean any boundary, then any edge, and finally the figurative brink: to be 'on the verge' is to stand at the rim of what's coming. (The same 'virga' also gives us 'verger,' the church official who once carried that very rod.)
- latin root
- from virga, a rod or staff of office
- on the verge
- the most suspenseful real estate in English
- british roads
- the grassy strip beside a highway, legally
- to verge
- means to slope or tend toward something
the verge — tech and science news website founded by joshua topolsky in 2011
verge aero — electric aircraft company, test flights in 2023