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"A man was standing at the water's edge with a small boy"
"He put pink icing around the edge of the cake"
whats the meaning of "the edge"??
"A man was standing at the water's edge with a small boy"
"He put pink icing around the edge of the cake"
whats the meaning of "the edge"??
"He put pink icing around the edge of the cake"
whats the meaning of "the edge"??
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Kind of. The whole top of a cake is just the top or a face.
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And edge is the point where an object ends. So the edge of the water refers to the point where the water stops. It can be used to anything with mass.
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Kind of. The whole top of a cake is just the top or a face.
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