marginn.
/ˈmɑːdʒɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɑrdʒən/ 1. † c. An extremity or furthermost part of something. Obsolete. rare.
a. An edge, a border; that part of a surface which lies immediately within its boundary, esp. when in some way marked off or distinguished from the rest of the surface.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxviii. 24 Þe ringis þat ben in þe mergyns [L. marginibus] of it.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe i. §21. 9 The names of the sterres ben writen in the margyn of the riet.
1463–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 501/2 In the utter partie of the mergyne of the same Cloth.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Xx2v It growes in..margins of fields, that are not umbrous.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 128 This silver bowl, whose costly margins shine Enchas'd with gold.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. Introd. 4 All the Advantage to be gathered from it is only from the Evenness of its Margin.
1787 J. Clarke Surv. Lakes Cumberland Introd. p. xxx Every kind of dish likewise which is thin at the margin is a Scale-dish.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 116 A sharp comb welded on the coulter margin of the share.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 40 The chasms at the margin of the glacier.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) ii. v. 204 He entered the margin of the wood.
1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey ii. 34 Here the road was rough, its margins indistinct.
1991 Conjunctions 16 278 The drum's high note, played at the margin of the drumhead.
b. The ground immediately adjacent to a river or body of water; a river bank, a shore, etc.
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun]
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?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 20588 (MED) Ne alle þe water ouerflues and rinnes Mai neuer ouercouer þe margines.
a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 7 (MED) Solinus seithe þat þe margyne & þe brynk of the see past Fraunce shulde be þe ende of the worlde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 243/1 Margyn or brinke of any thyng, bort; riue.
1678 J. Dryden All for Love i. 1 Men and Beasts Were born above the tops of Trees, that grew On th' utmost Margin of the Water-mark.
1743 R. Blair Grave 19 Nor margin of the gravel-bottom'd brook.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. iv. 41 On the Margin of a Lake, close to the Edge of the Water.
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. vii. 72 Between the mountain base And the green margin of the waters.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 34 Tweedmouth Church stands upon the margin of the Tweed.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxii. 185 The bourgeois little bay, which must have yearned all through the centuries for just such a watering-place as Swanage to be built on its margin.
1988 Salmon, Trout & Sea-trout June 22/2 When you are fishing the larger reservoirs from the bank, you must be mobile..moving around the margins and bays..looking for hatches.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]
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frontier1413
enda1425
limit1439
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pale?a1525
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meta1587
line1595
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Rubicon1613
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meta1838
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcviii. 11 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 148 [God's promise] eu'ry Margine of this earthy spheare Now sees performed.
d. Botany and Zoology. An outline, edge, or boundary line of a body or part. Also: a distinct border or rim differing in texture, thickness, colour, etc., from the main part.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > margin or periphery
limbus1671
margin1675
submarginal1827
limbation1881
margination1954
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 9 In standing, most numerously, in or near, the inner Margin of the Barque.
1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 286 Asperifolious Herbs, whose Flowers are Monopetalous, and generally reflected at the end like a Scorpions Tail, yet cut into Five Margines or Segments.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 94 On the upper margin of them, in a ferrugineous welt, lies the seed.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xi. 24 The Variations of the Calyx in respect to..its Equality, Margin and Apex, or Top.
1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. xlii. 642 At the very point where the spermatic cord emerges from under the lower margin of the transverse muscle.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 133 The lines connecting the base and apex of the leaf are called the edges or margins, or collectively the circumscription.
1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth (1878) 240 One of his upper incisors broken entirely off at the margin of the gum.
1909 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IV. 291 In Pterygotus there is a well-developed epistome..between the mouth and the front margin of the carapace.
1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. x. 196 The young angler..is beautifully camouflaged against a gravelly bottom with its mottled pattern and flattened body; its margin, too, is serrated in a most extraordinary way to obliterate any hard outline.
1991 Independent 5 Jan. 33/5 A new variety, ‘Pin-up’, is said to cope more easily with dry summers. It has waxy white flowers, each with a deep pink margin.
2. † b. An annotation placed in the margin of a work (cf. margent n. 1b). In quot. 1824 figurative: an explanatory indicator, a clue. Obsolete. rare.
a. The space on a page, etc., between its extreme edge and the main body of written or printed matter (sometimes containing notes, references, illuminations, etc.); esp. the border at either side of a page, as distinguished from the head and foot; a vertical line marking this off.
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society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > space on page between edge and body of text
margina1387
margent?a1475
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 41 (MED) I schal hiȝte þe margyns by þe hedes of the stories.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 174v Loke in þe nexte pagyn in þe eende of þe mergyne.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. viii. 20 (MED) Marchauntis in þe margyn [sc. of a bull; v.r. margeyne] hadde manye ȝeris [of pardon].
c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 1346 (MED) Many a pryue poyse is preyntid withynne Yn bokes..Of vice and of vertue fulle to þe margyn.
1524 T. Wolsey Let. in State Papers I. 150 The copy.., with my poore opinion upon the same, totted in the margyne.
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 756/2 I lette passe that he noteth in the margine these woordes how a manne maye knowe the church.
1589 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 442 Thay wer nocht contenit in the body of the said principall letter..bot interlynnit on the mairgeane thairof.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋15 Some peraduenture would haue no varietie of sences to be set in the margine.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 219 For this we haue Scripture and Fathers in the margine.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 431 They scrupled not to set them in the margins of their Calendars in characters of gold.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing To regulate the Margins..are two Iron Points which make two Holes in the Sheet.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 454 [Johnson:] I know when I have been writing verses, I have run my finger down the margin to see how many I had made, and how few I had to make.
1817 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Decameron II. 471 Books with larger margins are no where to be found.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iv. 177 I..will sketch her thus, in her quiet nook, For the margin of my Gospel book.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness in Youth ii. 112 Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes pencilled in the margin.
1951 D. Thomas Let. 10 Oct. (1987) 812 I'll write again, a letter full of woes and useless news and little dirty drawings in the margin.
1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) iii. 61 Desiree seemed unflustered by the question and I made note of her poise in the margin of her resumé.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun]
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enarration1570
interpretation1572
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margin1824
intertext1986
1653 W. Erbery Sword Doubled 63 He is Canaan (saith the margin) or a Merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand, he loveth to oppresse, Hos. 12.7.]
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 88 She viewed Mrs. Logan with a stern, steady gaze, as if reading her features as a margin to her intellect.
3.
a. A region or point of transition between states, epochs, etc.; a moment in time when some change or occurrence is imminent. Now frequently: a limit below or beyond which something ceases to be feasible.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit > condition close to limit
side?1387
margin1649
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. viii. 75 He..is at the margin and brim of that state of final reprobation.
a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 91 When to the margin of the grave we come..Our face is moistened with a clammy sweat.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. iii. 141 In any given condition of a country there is some land which will just pay for cultivation if it is let at a nominal rent. Thus, as it were, a margin of cultivation is marked, below which the cultivation of land cannot descend.
1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. ii. iii. 335 (note) No tax can be levied from those who are on the margin of bare subsistence.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxxix. 272 We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience x. 231 The objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.
1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxi. 152 Savagery waited so close on the margins of life.
1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's i. 8 The margin between alarm and fascination was soon crossed.
b. An amount of space, time, money, material, etc., by which something exceeds or falls short of what is (estimated to be) required or provided for; spec. = profit margin n. at profit n. Compounds 1b.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > limit below which sales no longer viable
margin1851
profit margin1868
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 319 We are in the enjoyment of a clear margin, of at least, half a cent per pound, over our eastern neighbors.
1852 ‘E. Warburton’ Darien I. Introd. 5 The purchase of an annuity..secured to him an ample supply for his simple wants, and left him besides a wide margin for the charities in which his brave old heart delighted.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiii. 145 The King, in his instructions, left a wide margin of discretion to the generals.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iv. 81 The narrow margin of profit had been reduced to a minimum.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) v. iii. 190 The shortening of the hours of labour may afford some margin of leisure.
1890 Congress. Rec. (U.S.) 25 June 6499/2 When an employer feels that his margin is slipping away from him, the first thing done is to scale down the price of wages.
1903 H. James Ambassadors x. xxv. 333 Frankly treating the whole occasion of the presence of his relatives as an opportunity for amusement, he left it, no doubt, but scant margin as an opportunity for anything else.
1940 Economist 31 Aug. 291/1 Fixed margins, which were established..to check an incipient boom, are now..the subject of some controversy.
1972 Times 16 Oct. 4/7 Bulbs..give easily the biggest margin to the acre.
1992 Economist 15 Feb. 32/2 Britain..charges VAT only on the auctioneer's commission, or the art dealer's margin, not on the full price.
c. margin of error n. a permissible or tolerable degree of deviation from a correct or exact value or target; a small allowance made for the possibility of miscalculation, change in circumstances, etc. (also margin for error); also figurative and in extended use.
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1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Feb. 106/2 For silver coin, the ‘remedy’ or margin of error is fixed at one pennyweight per pound Troy.
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iv. 169 In playing back to a fast bowler, the thing to remember is, that there is very little time to make the stroke, the margin of error being exceedingly small.
1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 vi. 52 The margin of possible error in the 1924 estimates must lead to caution in these comparisons.
1937 H. Longhurst Golf i. xxii. 198 The blaster gives no margin for error above the ball, but an almost infinite margin below it.
1949 H. MacLennan Cross-country 7 The climate of Canada allows for less margin of error in economic life than does the climate of the United States.
1986 J. Huxley Leaves of Tulip Tree (1987) iii. 69 Julian..did not allow for the margin of human errors, and demanded implicit acquiescence.
1991 Newsweek 28 Jan. 23/2 If recent advances have brought the margin of error down to 30 feet or less..then the age of surgical bombing is finally at hand.
1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Sport section) 3/6 The United goalkeeper had much less margin for error in the second half, when he had to save headers..and smother a close-range shot from Collymore.
d. margin of safety n. an allowance made for safety, (Engineering) a value equal to the factor of safety minus one; also in extended use.Also called safety margin.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > allowance made for safety
safety margin1871
margin of safety1874
redundancy1960
1874 Rep. Sel. Comm. Washington Monument (U.S. Congress) 6 The margin of safety..is found to be so small..that it would be unwise to construct the monument to that height.
1888 R. S. Ball Exper. Mech. (ed. 2) ii. 33 So great a margin of safety is necessary on account of the jerks and other occasional great strains that arise in the raising and the lowering of heavy weights.
1905 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 47 203 One hears, both in the lecture theatre and drawing office, much talk of ‘margins of safety’.
1919 Outing Mar. 317/3 Regard must always be had to the different margin of safety—not necessarily less but different.
1941 N. H. Anderson Aircraft Layout vii. 179 If the margin of safety comes out a negative quantity, the design is not satisfactory; in all cases a positive margin of safety is required.
1968 F. K. Teichmann Fund. Aircraft Struct. Anal. 78 In general, the designer of aircraft structures selects structural elements with a margin of safety of zero. This does not mean that safety is not built into the craft..since the loads, or load factors actually imposed on the craft are determined rather precisely.
1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 40 Margin of safety, the excess of normal or actual sales over sales at breakeven point.
1992 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 13 224/2 Drug levels in plasma are used for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) which is an especially important tool to individualize patients' dosage of drugs with a narrow margin of safety.
e. In an election, sporting contest, etc.: the number of votes, points, etc., by which the winner beats the (nearest) opponent. Frequently in margin of victory, winning margin.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > position or advantage
game1562
margin1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 2/2 What the Standard had hoped was that ‘there might be a return to the rule of the 'nineties, when the seat was won or lost by a margin between two and five hundred votes’.
1965 J. McPhee Sense of where you Are ii. 53 Such overguarding often provides Bradley with enough free throws to give his team the margin of victory.
1972 J. Mosedale Football iv. 48 The ball hit a goal post and was ruled a safety—the winning margin.
1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. 29/4 Their 12–10 winning margin didn't really do justice to a fine Bedford performance.
1994 Canad. Yachting Summer 19/3 Canadian boats swept the top three spots at the NOOD, with Dick Steffen's Zoo 11..taking 1st place by a convincing margin.
a. Joinery. The exposed face of a stile or rail in a door, etc.; = margent n. 3. Obsolete. rare.
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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 226 Margins or Margents.—The flat part of the stiles and rails of framed work.
b. Building. The exposed part of a lapped roof slate or tile. Obsolete.
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 581 The bed of a slate is its under side... The part of each course which is exposed to the weather is called its margin.
1855 F. Reinnel Masons' Assist. 70 The part of the back of every course which is exposed to the eye is called the margin of that course.
5. Stock Market.† b. U.S. Money deposited by both brokers in a contract when a settlement is required. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
a. A sum deposited by a speculator with a broker to cover the risk of loss on a transaction on account; now esp. in to buy (also trade, etc.) on margin.In futures markets, buying on margin enables a speculator to trade securities to a high value with a relatively small investment; cf. leverage n. Additions c.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > payments to seller or broker
margin1848
backwardation1850
contango1853
backwardization1865
1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 10 The purchaser then hands over this margin to the person with whom he hypothecates the Stock.
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 62 Seven per cent a year is generally allowed on all margins advanced by customers.
1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 782/2 All speculated, but they did not speculate on margins.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 5/1 Egyptian Unified bonds went crawling down to below 48, and alarmed bankers were sending after their ‘margins’.
1883 St. James's Gaz. 1 Nov. In Liverpool sales of cotton for future delivery are made without any deposit of ‘margins’.
1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 611/1 The speculators were..caught without any margin.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xcii. 288 Ohio punishes by fine and imprisonment the offering to sell ‘options’ or exhibiting any quotations of the prices of ‘margins’, ‘futures’, or ‘options’.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 11/3 The bulk of the shares in what are called the speculative lines are held by speculators on margin.
1934 S. S. Huebner Stock Market xxiii. 434 If the customer purchases stock worth $100 and deposits $20 as margin,..he has a margin of 20 per cent.
1971 Investors Chronicle's Beginners, Please (ed. 5) 310 The latter [sc. the broker] makes an interest charge..and receives from his client..sufficient to maintain an adequate ‘margin’ to protect the broker against fluctuations in the value of the collateral.
1992 Economist 22 Feb. 92/1 Schwab is now able to check in the course of the day on the collateral positions of customers who are trading on margin.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Margin,..a deposit made by each of two brokers, parties to a contract, when one is ‘called up’ (as it is termed) by the other.
6. Insurance. = loading n. 3.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance policy > associated expense, amount, or charge
premio1622
premium1661
reversion1768
reversionary bonus1833
insurance1838
loading1867
hazard rate1872
single premium1877
margin1881
line1899
strain1910
deductible1927
no-claims bonus1933
co-pay1959
co-payment1966
1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 173/1 An addition to the pure premiums,..to provide for expenses, for fluctuations in the death-rate, and for other contingencies..is called the ‘loading’ or ‘margin’... The terms..are now used to designate the difference between the premiums payable..and the net premiums deduced from any table.
1994 Independent on Sunday 26 June (Business section) 2/7 The core bank assurance operation declined in profitability, reflecting net interest margin erosion. Further margin weakness and maturity of the life assurance business will restrict operating profit growth.
7. Australian and New Zealand. An increment or payment made in addition to a basic wage, esp. in recognition of particular expertise or extra responsibility.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > wage structures and scales > [noun] > wage rise > due to merit
margin1939
merit increase1944
merit money1947
1939 F. W. Eggleston et al. Austral. Standards of Living 75 Workers who possess skill, or other qualifications, necessary for their work, receive an amount over and above the basic wage... This..is known as the secondary wage, or a margin.
1942 Commonw. Arbitration Rep. 48 584 What Powers J. did was to take the junior officer's margin (above the basic wage), as awarded in 1920..as being equivalent to £6 3s. 9d. per month.
1961 J. L. K. Gifford Wages 147 Neglect of margins during inflation could result in injustice to some skilled workers and salary earners.
1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 447/2 All courts award ‘margins’ or ‘loadings’, for skill, overtime, week-end work, danger, and dirt.
1986 Age (Melbourne) 10 Oct. 13/2 The 1967 total wage ruling..combined the basic wage and margin for skill.
Phrases
margin of appreciation n. [after French marge d'appréciation (1958)] Law a degree of discretion allowed in interpreting and applying the European Convention on Human Rights, granted to signatory states to account for the individual customs and laws of each nation.
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1961 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 10 902 The Commission went further and wished to read into Article 15 what it called ‘the doctrine of margin of appreciation’.
1994 A. F. Bayefsky in R. J. Cook Human Rights of Women xv. 355 When the European Court determines there is a wide margin of appreciation, it adopts a limited scope of judicial review.
2017 Malta Today (Nexis) 22 Feb. National courts have a margin of appreciation in determining the necessity of ordering the disclosure of sources.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
margin-cell n.
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1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 142 This wall intersects the dividing wall of the margin-cell [Ger. Randzelle] previously formed.
margin light n.
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 639 French Casements, fitted and hung... If with margin lights, add on the deal—.018.
1858 Skyring's Builders' Prices (ed. 48) 34 Deal cased frames..with margin lights or rail.
margin-sand n.
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1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 146 Along the margin-sand large foot-marks went.
C2.
margin account n. Stock Market a brokerage account in which stocks and shares can be bought on margin (sense 5a).
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1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 30 July 4/2 Once a margin account has been properly margined, the regulation imposes no further requirements respecting the status of the account in the absence of a subsequent transaction.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes 76 There were supposed to be bedbug wizards who played the stock market with phantom margin accounts through their computers.
1992 B. Coote Trade Trap v. 64 To hold a margin account you have to be credit-worthy, and the sums of money involved are great.
margin call n. Stock Market a demand by a broker that an investor deposit further cash or securities to guarantee the margin (sense 5a) on an investment.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements
intromission1567
hedginga1631
retiring1681
partnership1704
put1718
time bargain1720
bargain for time1721
option1746
call1825
put and call1826
cornering1841
corner1853
raid1866
pooling1871
squeeze1872
call option1874
recapitalization1874
short squeeze1877
split-up1878
margin call1888
pyramid1888
profit taking1891
pyramiding1895
underwriting1895
melon-cutting1900
round turn1901
market-making1902
put-through1902
put and take1921
round trip1922
put and take1929
leverage1931
split-down1932
switching1932
give-up1934
mark to market1938
recap1940
rollover1947
downtick1954
stock split1955
traded option1955
leg1959
stock splitting1959
rollover1961
split1972
spread betting1972
unitization1974
marking-to-market1981
swap1982
telebroking1984
1888 Economist 20 Oct. 3/3 Millions of dollars were sent to Chicago from New York..to meet losses and margin calls.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iii. 81 A clientèle of country customers, of small adventurers..were the first to go in a crash, unable to meet margin calls, and leaving to their brokers the responsibility of their disastrous trades.
1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 14 Nov. 2/2 The deficit arose after defendant was unable to meet margin calls.
1995 Forbes 16 Jan. 20/2 They did indeed get hit with a margin call when bond prices sank.
margin clerk n. Stock Market a clerk who records dealings in margins (sense 5a).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > recording of prices or dealings > one who
marker1870
margin clerk1886
1886 Harper's Mag. July 213/2 Speculative sales of land..are also made in the Call Room..the caller of provisions and margin clerk presiding.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 30 July 4/6 The regulation should be..in the language of the brokers and margin clerks who must work under it.
1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 29 Apr. 13/2 Prospectuses, as even the newest margin clerk knows, are consecrated script.
margin draft n. (also margin draught) Masonry = draft n. 6a.
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1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. (at cited word) In stone-cutting, when the edge of a stone is worked with a chisel, the chiseled part is termed the margin draught, and the edge is said to be draughted.
1859 D. H. Jacques House 123 The stones are to be first hammer-dressed, then truly bedded and jointed, and lastly a margin draft chiseled off the outer edges of the external surfaces.
margin line n. Shipbuilding a line on the after hull of a boat or ship marked by the ends of the bottom timbers; (in later use) a notional waterline intended to ensure sufficient buoyancy should the hull be holed and not more than two compartments flooded (introduced in this sense by the British Board of Trade after the loss of the Titanic in 1912).
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1831 T. O'Scanlan Diccionario Marítimo Español App. 94/2 Line (Margin), línea del alefris del yugo principal.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 131 Margin line, a line or edge parallel to the upper side of the wing transom, and about five inches below it, at which place terminate all the butts of the bottom planks abaft.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 447/1 Margin line, an imaginary fore-and-aft line used in floodable length calculations relating to the subdivision of ships. It is situated three inches below the upper surface of the bulkhead deck at the side.
margin money n. Stock Market money deposited as margin (sense 5a).
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1975 Business Week (Nexis) 8 Sept. 36 At the same time, the exchange pressed the company to put up more margin money, only to find that [it] could not.
1988 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Feb. 562/1 Equanimity was notably lacking in Miami, where a greying, bespectacled man lost nearly $15 million, $4 million of his own and $11 million borrowed (‘margin’) money.
1993 Business Hist. Rev. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 509 Deposits..used for short-term lending, especially for margin money.
margin release n. a mechanism on a typewriter which allows typing to continue into the margin previously set.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > margin release
margin release1893
marginal release1914
1893 Phonographer & Typist Apr. 86/2 On the right-hand side of the keyboard is a key bearing the letters ‘M.R.’. This stands for ‘margin release’.
1939 F. A. Faunce Secretarial Efficiency ii. vi. 87 Notice the location of..the backspacer, the margin release, and the ribbon shift.
1962 J. B. Priestley Margin Released p. viii Typewriters..have a key labelled ‘Margin Release’, frequently needed by hasty and careless typists like myself.
margin-release key n. a key on a typewriter which operates the margin release.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > set of keys > specific keys
shift-key1893
backspace key1899
backspacer1901
home key1910
margin-release key1913
shift1919
backspace1944
1913 Pitman's Commercial Encycl. & Dict. Business IV. 1620/2 Note what a wonderful improvement there is..in all the minor parts, such as..margin release keys.
1967 J. Harrison Secretarial Duties (ed. 3) viii. 106 When erasing, move the carriage fully to the left or right, using the margin-release key.
margin shell n. a gastropod mollusc whose shell has a thickened lip, spec. a marginella (but in quot. 1901 Erato voluta, a European species related to the cowries).
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1901 E. Step Shell Life xiv. 243 Of these three forms the Smooth Margin-shell (Erato lævis) best illustrates our meaning.
1908 J. E. Rogers Shell Bk. xii The Margin Shells.
1972 W. O. Cernohorsky Marine Shells of Pacific II. 179 The family of margin shells contains species with moderately small to very small, smooth and glossy shells.
margin-tailed adj. rare (of an animal) having a tail with a distinctive edge or border; spec. denoting the giant otter of South America, Pteronura brasiliensis.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Margin-tailed, having the tail margined: specifically applied to a South American otter, Pteronura sandbachi, in which the tail is alate.
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marginv.
/ˈmɑːdʒɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɑrdʒən/ 1. † a. transitive. To provide with marginal notes; to annotate or summarize in the margin. Obsolete.† b. transitive. To specify in the margin of a page. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate > with marginal notes
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1595 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 366 The persewaris..acceptit the executioune thairof in quantum nocht beand interlynit nor merginit.
1607 S. Hieron Def. Ministers Reasons 78 Though it be his use, to margin his English, with greek or latin or both.
1616 T. Roe Embassy to Great Mogul 4 Sept. (1899) 260 I receiued my Articles back from Asaph chan, who tooke now att last many exceptions, and margined them with his Pen in most Insolent sort.
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 52 If any man may be permitted to appeale to Scriptures: margind with his own notes.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. i. §7. 18 These he deals forth..as the notable Matters, margined for better Notice.
1885 E. S. Ffoulkes Primitive Consecration of Eucharistic Oblation iv. 73 Of the four prayers margined by Mr. Hammond as ‘Recital of the work of Redemption, Words of Institution, Confession of Faith, and the Great Oblation’, not a trace occurs in S. Cyril.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate > with marginal notes > insert as marginal note
margent1610
margina1641
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 294 Whereto add these records here margined.
1688 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 352 Delete..his name out of the presentation..and margine another man in his place.
1868 Voice of Truth May 117 There are no fewer than 2283 articles, all numbered, named, and the places they came from carefully margined.
c. transitive. To provide (a page, book, piece of writing, etc.) with a margin (usually in passive); to serve as a margin for.
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1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 287/1 Eight hundred milk white, hot-pressed pages, margining most luxuriously the glossy impressure of matter.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Sept. A vellum pamphlet..each leaf of which was numbered and neatly margined with red ink.
1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 245 Books shapely, well printed, well margined.
1934 Speculum 9 26 The page..is thinly ruled and margined in red ink.
1948 J. Carter Taste & Technique in Book-collecting xii. 172 All its leaves were present, clean, and amply margined.
1972 Amer. Lit. 44 155 He brings us directly and delightedly to the text, set cleanly in Linotype Primer, widely spaced and margined.
2. transitive. To provide with an edge or border; to serve as a margin to; (occasionally) to abut, adjoin. Frequently in passive, with by, with.
a. gen.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] > provide with an edge
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1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. ii. 158 Hats..were margin'd with Brims, as a commodious Shelter.
1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares 65 If its water was..margin'd with the tender grass.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. viii. 252 Entering the little bay, where the hamlet margined the beach.
1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies 114 The numerous brooks..are margined with..Blackwood and Telopea; the flowers of the last abound in honey.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 35 The broad belt of reeds which margined the river.
1929 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 37 257 The lakes are not margined by wide beaches.
1971 Nature 29 Jan. 312/1 A large triangular mediterranean sea within Gondwana, margined by western India, Africa/Madagascar and Central East Antarctica.
b. Zoology, Botany, and Pathology.Cf. margin n. 1d, margined adj. 1.
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the world > life > the body > part of body > have as part [verb (transitive)] > edge or border
margin1815
marginate1880
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [verb (transitive)] > margin or periphery
margin1815
marginate1880
1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 3 Interior wing-quills externally margined with pale.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 155 The grub of a beetle..whose body is margined on each side by eight triangular fleshy mammular processes.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 249 The membranes margining the toes.
1881 Nature 13 Jan. 251/2 The leaves were smaller..the parenchyma reduced to a narrow expansion margining each vein.
1898 Archives Surg. 9 125 [The eruption] consisted of patches which were not abruptly margined.
1902 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 89 The blue sides are margined posteroventrally with a black line.
1958 J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. (ed. 9) 89 The Masked Owl..is a lovely bird, with a facial disc of most unusual colouring—purplish-white, margined with dark-brown spots.
1983 Garden Design Autumn 10/1 In the garden variety ‘Aureomarginata’, they are longitudinally striped and margined with yellow.
3. transitive. Stock Market. To pay margin (margin n. 5a) on (an account, a purchase of stock, etc.); (with up) to provide additional margin for. Also intransitive with up: to provide additional margin to cover increasing liabilities, etc.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
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1870 W. W. Fowler Ten Years in Wall St. 85 Put up your margin, say five hundred on a hundred shares, then keep margined up or they'll sell you out.
1889 Amer. Economist 29 Mar. 176/1 The concern then had $42,500,000 locked up on Bourse, having trebled its liabilities in the vain attempt to margin up after a fall begun in September, 1881.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 7/3 The banks are indifferent, as the stocks held are securely margined.
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xxxiv. 408 As the stock fell, the banks requested the brokers to margin up their loans, and the brokers, in turn, requested Percival to margin up his trades.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 30 July 4/2 Once a margin account has been properly margined, the regulation imposes no further requirements respecting the status of the account in the absence of a subsequent transaction.
1987 G. Angell Winning in Futures Market (ed. 2) ii. 40 Pyramiding, a method by which additional new contracts are margined with the winnings of previously held contracts.
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