margin

«margin» in Mova's school dictionary: the empty space at the edge of a page, often with a line… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a margin, margins)

meaning for a pupil

1) A margin is the empty space at the edge of a page, often with a line, where you do not write. tree →

2) The amount by which one thing is more than another, like in a race or vote: «won by a narrow margin». tree →

3) An extra amount allowed for safety or mistakes: «a margin of error». tree →

4) (business) Profit: the difference between what something costs and what it sells for. tree →

5) A margin can also be the edge of something, such as the edge of the sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in school (write inside the margin; teachers write comments in the margin), sport (winning margin), maths (margin of error), money (profit margin). Phrases: «in the margin», «by a wide margin», «margin for error».

examples

• Write the date in the margin. tree →
• The teacher wrote «Well done!» in the margin. tree →
• Our team won by a margin of three goals. tree →
• Leave a margin of safety when you cross the road. tree →
• The scientist gave a margin of error of two centimetres. tree →
• The shop's profit margin on sweets is small. tree →
• She continued her walk along by the margin of the sea. tree →

note

Countable. Adjective: marginal (small, at the edge). Maths: the winning margin = winner's score − loser's score; 45 − 38 = a margin of 7.

In the corpora

• Priya's mum noticed something odd: Priya was drawing monsters in every margin of her homework.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «margin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.