The difference between Brink and Edge
When used as nouns, brink means the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice, whereas edge means the boundary line of a surface.
Edge is also verb with the meaning: to move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
check bellow for the other definitions of Brink and Edge
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Brink as a noun:
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
Examples:
"the brink of a river"
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Brink as a noun (figurative):
The edge or border
Examples:
"the brink of success"
"He's on the brink of madness."
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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.