The difference between Advantage and Edge
When used as nouns, advantage means any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end, whereas edge means the boundary line of a surface.
When used as verbs, advantage means to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to, whereas edge means to move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
check bellow for the other definitions of Advantage and Edge
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Advantage as a noun (countable):
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
Examples:
"The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position."
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Advantage as a noun (obsolete):
Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
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Advantage as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
Examples:
"the advantage of a good constitution"
"Having the faster car is of little advantage."
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Advantage as a noun (tennis):
The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
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Advantage as a noun (soccer):
The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
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Advantage as a noun:
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
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Advantage as a verb (transitive):
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
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Advantage as a verb (reflexive):
to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage
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Edge as a noun:
The boundary line of a surface.
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Edge as a noun (geometry):
A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
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Edge as a noun:
An advantage.
Examples:
"I have the edge on him."
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Edge as a noun (also, _, figuratively):
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
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Edge as a noun:
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
Examples:
"The cup is right on the edge of the table."
"He is standing on the edge of a precipice."
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Edge as a noun:
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
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Edge as a noun:
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
Examples:
"in the edge of evening"
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Edge as a noun (cricket):
A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
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Edge as a noun (graph theory):
A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
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Edge as a noun:
In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
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Edge as a verb (transitive):
To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Examples:
"He edged the book across the table."
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Edge as a verb (intransitive):
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Examples:
"He edged away from her."
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Edge as a verb (usually in the form 'just edge'):
To win by a small margin.
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Edge as a verb (cricket, transitive):
To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
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Edge as a verb (transitive):
To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
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Edge as a verb (transitive):
To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
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Edge as a verb:
To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
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Edge as a verb (figurative):
To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
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Edge as a verb (intransitive):
To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.