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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
margin
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a margin of error (=the degree to which a calculation might be wrong)
▪ We have to allow for a small margin of error in the calculations.
gross margin
profit margin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business, processed foods.
▪ They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.
▪ That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin.
▪ If so, Britain would be outpacing the continent by the biggest margin for more than two decades.
▪ Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin.
▪ Mr Bush would dearly like a congressional resolution of this sort, passed by a big margin after a short debate.
▪ That was just unbelievable and to win 6 &038; 5 in a fourball is a big margin.
comfortable
▪ But even there Dole won by a comfortable 12-point margin.
▪ He strolled home by a comfortable margin thanks to some good body work early on.
continental
▪ Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
▪ Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.
▪ It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.
▪ The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.
▪ The first sections of the converging continental margins to collide suffer the most intense deformation.
▪ The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type.
gross
▪ It is really an accounting problem, and a balance must be struck between channel expense, profit and gross margins.
▪ The gross margin was 20. 7 percent in the fourth quarter.
▪ A manufacturer using short channels is more likely to have high gross margins, but equally higher channel expenses.
▪ It blamed lower holiday sales, crimped gross margin, stormy weather and higher costs.
▪ These machines have a gross margin of 50 percent.
▪ But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
▪ The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins, coupled with lower channel expenses.
▪ A gross margin of $ 62, 500 is anticipated on $ 250, 000 in sales.
high
▪ A manufacturer using short channels is more likely to have high gross margins, but equally higher channel expenses.
▪ The profit margin rose on productivity improvements and increased sales of higher-margin on-site industrial gas plants.
▪ But they need to specialise, be creative and target their marketing activities effectively, as well as offer other higher margins services too.
▪ The maker of high-margin switching products said it will post lower-than-expected earnings from the fourth quarter.
▪ Sales of the higher margin 6000 Series are expected generate an increasingly higher proportion of the company's revenues in fact.
▪ Smaller companies will pay a higher margin.
▪ The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins.
▪ The possibility of a high gross profit margin. 6.
initial
▪ Instead, both buyer and seller pay an initial margin, and these payments are held by the clearing house.
▪ The initial margin on the ST3 contract is 750.
▪ There is a lower level of initial margin on straddle positions.
large
▪ The close score after 12 games confounds pre-match predictions that Kasparov would win this time by a large margin.
▪ The result was a 131-98 Boston blowout at the FleetCenter, the Celtics' largest victory margin of the season.
▪ In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years.
▪ Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final, which failed by a large margin to live up to it's billing.
▪ By a large margin, the gathering predicted that Bush would be re-elected in a landslide.
▪ Many pilots undershoot or overshoot their chosen spot by large margins.
▪ Ronald Reagan received an even larger margin in 1984; but he had margins almost as big among whites elsewhere.
left
▪ Each time you press F4, the left margin will shift over another five spaces.
▪ The term justified means that the text lines up down both left and right margins, just like in a book.
▪ Instead, create this style by using Shift-Tab to release the left margin.
▪ Since the column that we moved originally started at the left margin, no tab codes preceded it.
▪ Press the underline character until it reaches the left margin.
▪ This sets a left margin at position 1 and a right margin at 132.
▪ The first column starts at the left margin.
low
▪ The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins, coupled with lower channel expenses.
▪ Wild speculation, low margin requirements and sheer panic triggered the free fall that set off the Great Depression.
▪ Place the acetate film gently across the lower margin of the specimen where a pool of acetone will have collected.
▪ A lone distant figure walks down the road that bleeds across the lower margin of the photograph.
▪ This control has meant lower margins for retailers, and manufacturers being able to dictate the in-store location of their particular products.
▪ That distracts time and attention into sectors which typically offer lower profit margins than drugs.
▪ But as it's such a low-margin business, they're more likely to stretch things.
▪ For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands.
narrow
▪ It thus provides lower cost loans by operating with narrower interest rate margins than those of domestic banking operations.
▪ Kennedy won the election by a narrow margin.
▪ Isn't this my own handwriting running sideways down the narrow margin?
▪ While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
▪ Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin.
▪ We work on a very narrow margin.
▪ A month ago, the all-Union Supreme Soviet voted against discussing the issue by only the narrowest of margins.
▪ So Weinke took the Heisman by a narrow margin and Heupel is anything but a loser.
net
▪ Its 25% net margin is bettered in the computer industry only by Intel, the world's biggest micro-processor maker.
▪ The net profit margin would be 2.1 to 2.3 per cent.
▪ In the long term, he concedes, Microsoft's net margins will be nearer 15% than 25%.
▪ A net margin increase of over 50 cents a barrel contributed to this good short-term performance.
passive
▪ It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.
▪ Clearly models of passive margin evolution must be able to account for the development of these upwarps.
▪ Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture.
▪ A number of other passive margins, however, show no sign of such major volcanism.
right
▪ If the right margin is altered move the page number to keep the two in alignment, if so desired.
▪ Long quotations, for example, should be indented from both the left and right margins.
▪ It may, for instance, be better to leave type unjustified in the right margin.
▪ This moves both the right and left margins in five spaces at a time.
▪ The term justified means that the text lines up down both left and right margins, just like in a book.
▪ This sets a left margin at position 1 and a right margin at 132.
▪ The Wordwrap feature can, on some programs, be disabled to let the text overrun the right hand margin.
▪ You are then prompted for the position number for the new right margin.
significant
▪ Recent polls say if the election were held today, Clinton would beat Dole by a significant margin.
slim
▪ The assembly endorsed the new prime minister by the slimmest of margins.
▪ But through it all, the majestic wolf has maintained its grip on existence, albeit by some very slim margins.
▪ Even so Adenauer was only elected Chancellor by a slim margin - 202 votes out of 404.
▪ The Panthers edged the Barons by the slimmest of margins in a dual meet on Jan. 21.
▪ The result is a slim margin of profit.
▪ That will mean much slimmer margins.
small
▪ More importantly to Branson, it meant Virgin were on a far smaller margin of any profit.
▪ By a smaller margin, the audience said that Prince Charles should not become king.
▪ A similar resolution was approved by the House of Representatives in June, but by a much smaller margin.
▪ In size and significance, if not charm, Sydney has won out by a small margin.
▪ Yet after one subtracts the small margin of great judges, there is something wrong with the remaining lot of them.
▪ Such people may indeed be giving themselves some small margin of immunological protection.
wide
▪ Each volume is beautifully produced, on thick paper with wide margins and a general air of elegance.
▪ But voters are preferring other candidates to Gramm by wide margins.
▪ This beats even the great Bobby Fischer by a wide margin.
▪ The initiative passed by a wide margin, but initial court rulings have enjoined its enforcement.
▪ It allows for artists and historians to explore in the wider margins works and strategies neglected or dismissed by modernism.
▪ So far, its return has outpaced the Gfund and Ffunds by a wide margin.
▪ Articles for the press should be written with double spacing and wide margins.
▪ Leave wide margins on both sides of each page.
■ NOUN
operating
▪ Worried men Operating margins have increased to 30% or so, putting garbage up with pharmaceuticals in terms of profitability.
▪ But its operating margins collapsed, falling from 8.1% to 4.3%.
▪ Penguin's operating margin was just over 8%, compared with 6.7% in 1991.
plate
▪ The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength.
▪ The main types of convergent plate margin and their possible modes of development are summarized in Table 3.1.
▪ If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins.
▪ There are three types of plate margin, two of which we have already come across.
▪ The latter two are simple destructive plate margin volcanoes, but the Plate Tectonic setting of Vesuvius is a bit complex.
point
▪ White southerners voted for Mr Bush by a 35-#point margin.
▪ Last July Labour had a two point margin at 34 to 32 per cent.
profit
▪ But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.
▪ Francis noted that strong profit margins and a committed, rock-solid management team were the key elements for a successful start-up.
▪ In the fixed-commission mid-1960s, profit margins were about 25% on total revenue.
▪ Executives point to increased regulatory pressures as well as scrawny profit margins on underwriting new state and local government issues.
▪ That distracts time and attention into sectors which typically offer lower profit margins than drugs.
▪ His backup was cement, and he knew exactly what profit margin to expect on it.
▪ The result is that the unit price becomes even higher as publishers protect their desired profit margin.
▪ Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
safety
▪ Another effect of the flare is to wind up the blade speed which helps to give a greater safety margin.
■ VERB
expect
▪ Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year, he does believe the rate of decline will slow.
▪ The company expects revenues and gross margins in the fourth quarter to be flat to slightly higher than the just-ended quarter.
▪ We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather.
improve
▪ These cost reductions are improving our margins and profitability.
▪ When the business began to slow down, he decided that he would offer liquor to improve his profit margins.
▪ Aubourn Farming's Philip Wynn believes there's still much that can be done to improve the gross margin.
▪ Now, retailers are looking to better manage their inventories to improve profit margins, Doolittle said.
increase
▪ Company 2 has a much more rapidly declining experience curve and is increasing its margins.
▪ As more capital is raised, the cost increases at the margin, increasing the marginal cost in increments.
leave
▪ She takes a prehistoric triangle of chalk and leaves a margin for the seams.
▪ This moves both the right and left margins in five spaces at a time.
▪ That doesn't leave much margin for error.
▪ So, go for skeleton notes - and leave plenty of margins and space round your notes.
▪ You designed two uneven columns. the first column starts at the default left margin and is 20 characters wide.
maintain
▪ Dowding has held its rates, maintaining its gross margins, but inevitably lost some business.
▪ The Bruins also maintained a two-game margin over Arizona and Stanford, their opponent on Saturday.
operate
▪ Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body.
▪ Whatever the merits of such proposals, they would operate only at the margins of the costs that most families incur.
▪ The bank's operating margin was below the 20.8 per cent increase registered in September.
▪ Group operating margins exceeded 20 % for the first time in Emap's history.
▪ In such conditions the government operates only at the margin of social activity.
▪ Altman has always operated on the margins of the industry.
reduce
▪ These measures will also benefit the refining sector, once capacity is reduced and industry margins recover.
▪ The coaches want to call every play and reduce their margin for error.
▪ The same result may occur even if the tenant does not consciously reduce his profit margin.
squeeze
▪ Giant and inefficient marketing boards have had the opposite effect of their nominal purpose, and have further squeezed farmers' margins.
▪ Financial stocks dropped on concern that Treasury bonds yields are headed up, squeezing banks profit margins.
▪ Falling stock markets and a lack of merger activity have squeezed margins and profits in investment banks.
▪ But deflation is also squeezing corporate margins and making it harder to tackle the high levels of corporate and national debts.
vote
▪ If you look merely at voting margins, there is a dead heat.
▪ Cahill said 416, 000 of the targeted women did vote, creating the margin of victory for Sen.
win
▪ That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin.
▪ Labor was pleased, the protests were squelched and Clinton won by a hefty margin.
▪ Denver has trampled through its opponents, winning by a margin of nearly 18 points a game.
▪ The winning margin was 352 runs but the damage done to them can not be measured by mere numbers.
▪ A little later Hilary Homeyer beat the 17-year-old Becky Brewerton, and a winning margin was secured.
▪ That equalled the score at Nairn two years ago, which was a record winning margin for them.
▪ At the end I slowed my pace because the important thing is to win, not the margin you do it by.
write
▪ Excuses, wrote Goldberg in the margin of his typescript with a felt-tip pen, an end to excuses.
▪ It would also be helpful to write in the left-hand margin where you used the skills.
▪ Glass, wrote Goldberg in the margin, mirror of delay.
▪ You get feedback written on the margins on your page or typed on a separate piece of paper.
▪ He has also revealed notes written in the margins of Latin manuscripts by Gothic hands and then rubbed out by later owners.
▪ Read your story through carefully; each time you come across a transferable skill write it in the margin at the right.
▪ Long run, wrote Goldberg in the margin, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, no meaning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thin margin/majority etc
narrow victory/defeat/majority/margin etc
▪ Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
▪ Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.
▪ John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.
▪ On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory.
▪ Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin.
▪ Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.
▪ Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?
▪ While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
razor-thin victory/margin
▪ Years of price wars, for example, have created razor-thin margins in personal computers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an eight-goal margin of defeat
▪ She widened the margins so her essay would look longer.
▪ Someone had written a note in the left-hand margin.
▪ The program sets the margins automatically.
▪ There were notes pencilled in the margin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By early 1986 margins had narrowed.
▪ Considerable margins of uncertainty are associated with the best-fit climate sensitivities identified in an analysis of this type.
▪ In size and significance, if not charm, Sydney has won out by a small margin.
▪ The margin of error for the study was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
▪ The desired margin size is a positive function of the volatility of futures prices.
▪ The poll, which showed Forbes leading Dole by a 31-22 percent margin, figured that 27 percent of independents would vote.
▪ The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business, processed foods.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margin

Margin \Mar"gin\, n. [OE. margine, margent, L. margo, ginis. Cf. March a border, Marge.]

  1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

  2. Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

  3. (Com.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

  4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.

  5. (Brokerage) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. It is usually less than the full value of the security purchased, in which case it may be qualified by the portion of the full value required to be deposited; as, to buy stocks on 50% margin.
    --N. Biddle.

    Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints.

    Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See 2d Gauge.

    Syn: Border; brink; verge; brim; rim.

Margin

Margin \Mar"gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Margined; p. pr. & vb. n. Marginging.]

  1. To furnish with a margin.

  2. To enter in the margin of a page.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
margin

mid-14c., "edge of a sea or lake;" late 14c., "space between a block of text and the edge of a page," from Latin marginem (nominative margo) "edge, brink, border, margin," from PIE *merg- "edge, border, boundary" (see mark (n.1)). General sense of "boundary space; rim or edge of anything" is from late 14c. Meaning "comfort allowance, cushion" is from 1851; margin of safety first recorded 1888. Stock market sense of "sum deposited with a broker to cover risk of loss" is from 1848. Related: Margins.

margin

c.1600, "to furnish with marginal notes," from margin (n.). From 1715 as "to furnish with a margin."

Wiktionary
margin

n. 1 (context typography English) The edge of the paper that remains blank. 2 The edge or border of any flat surface. vb. To add a #Noun to.

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WordNet
margin

  1. n. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary [syn: border, perimeter]

  2. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: allowance, leeway, tolerance]

  3. the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities [syn: security deposit]

  4. (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold [syn: gross profit, gross profit margin]

  5. the blank space that surrounds the text on a page

  6. a strip near the boundary of an object; "he jotted a note on the margin of the page" [syn: edge]

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Wikipedia
Margin

Margin may refer to:

  • Margin (economics)
  • Margin (finance), a type of financial collateral used to cover credit risk
  • Margin (typography), the white space that surrounds the content of a page
  • Margin (machine learning), the distance between a decision boundary and a data point
  • Margin, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province
  • Continental margin, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
  • Marginal frequency distribution in statistics
  • Leaf margin, the edge of a leaf blade

  • , also ID-2119, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1918 to 1919

Margin (finance)

In finance, margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit with a counterparty (most often their broker or an exchange) to cover some or all of the credit risk the holder poses for the counterparty. This risk can arise if the holder has done any of the following:

  • Borrowed cash from the counterparty to buy financial instruments,
  • Sold financial instruments short, or
  • Entered into a derivative contract.

The collateral for a margin account can be the cash deposited in the account or securities provided, and represents the funds available to the account holder for further share trading. On United States futures exchanges, margins were formerly called performance bonds. Most of the exchanges today use SPAN ("Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk") methodology, which was developed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1988, for calculating margins for options and futures.

Margin (economics)

In economics, a margin is a set of constraints conceptualised as a border. A marginal change is the change associated with a relaxation or tightening of constraints — either change of the constraints, or a change in response to this change of the constraints.

Margin (machine learning)

In machine learning the margin of a single data point is defined to be the distance from the data point to a decision boundary. Note that there are many distances and decision boundaries that may be appropriate for certain datasets and goals. A margin classifier is a classifier that explicitly utilizes the margin of each example while learning a classifier. There are theoretical justifications (based on the VC dimension) as to why maximizing the margin (under some suitable constraints) may be beneficial for machine learning and statistical inferences algorithms.

Category:Support vector machines

Margin (typography)

In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins. When two pages of content are combined next to each other (known as a two-page spread), the space between the two pages is known as the gutter. (Any space between columns of text is a gutter.) The top and bottom margins of a page are also called "head" and "foot", respectively. The term "margin" can also be used to describe the edge of internal content, such as the right or left edge of a column of text.

Marks made in the margins are called marginalia.

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Usage examples of "margin".

But the bloodhound, after working about the door a while, turned down the glen, and never stopped till he reached the margin of the sea.

A delightful, spicy fragrance exhaled from the blossomy thickets which fringed the river margin.

Where a brooklet led them onward, Where the trail of deer and bison Marked the soft mud on the margin, Till they found all further passage Shut against them, barred securely By the trunks of trees uprooted, Lying lengthwise, lying crosswise, And forbidding further passage.

The thin margin of their prosperity and the absurdity of calling them exploiters was revealed in Soviet census data examined by Richard Pipes, showing that only 2 percent of peasant households had any hired help, and these averaged one employee each.

He knows quite well, though he may not say so, that the Corot trees, though they do not dwell upon margins, are in spirit almost as extraterritorial as the rushes.

I knew these hypnagogic tricks that dreams could do, I knew the demons who come face to face with you on the very margin of sleep.

Sharp allowed the monoplane to proceed under its own power, while he raced on to the finish mark, winning, of course, by a large margin.

My glim showed me the keyhole, and I cut the lock, which was mortised into the thickness of the door, clean away, taking a square which gave ample margin beyond the edges of the lock.

For one thing, the holdouts were being outbred by quite a margin, and knew it.

It was too early yet to predict the full impact of the media blitz he and his fellows were planning, but so far their closely coordinating candidates were on a pace to outspend their less organized opponents by a margin of almost two to one.

The trouble was this: that the modern type of city, when it started into being, back in the seventies, began to take from men, and to use up, that margin of nervous energy, that exuberant overplus of vitality of which so much has already been said in this book, and which is always needed for the true appreciation of poetry.

Around it, in the episcopal purlieus and on the margin of the parvis, lodged the prelates and the canons.

Since his accident at the margins of the pentacle, the young Egyptian boy had been facing her, chest and chin thrust out, hands sweeping this way and that to illustrate his expansive statements and occasionally return his loincloth to position.

Flicking through, he noticed the notations in the margin, the tiny, beautifully drawn pictograms in red and black and green.

On the margin of these passages, the walls of the dwellings arise literally from out of the water, since economy of room has caused their owners to extend their possessions to the very verge of the channel, in the manner that quays and wharfs are pushed into the streams in our own country.