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# fringe

«fringe» in Mova's school dictionary: **hair cut short and straight across the forehead…** — 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 fringe, fringes); adjective (fringe, as in fringe ideas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fringe is hair cut short and straight across the forehead; Americans call it bangs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#m1)

2) A fringe is a border of loose threads on the edge of cloth, like on a scarf or rug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#m2)

3) The fringe or fringes of a place or group is its outer edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children get a fringe cut at the hairdresser's; scarves and cowboy jackets have fringes. In stories the fringe of a forest or town is its edge. Phrases: «cut a fringe», «on the fringe of», «fringe benefits», «a fringe festival».

### examples

- My fringe is getting into my eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x1)
- Mum trimmed my fringe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x2)
- The scarf has a fringe on each end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x3)
- They camped on the fringe of the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x4)
- The rug had a long white fringe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x5)
- She grew out her fringe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x6)
- Houses spread out on the fringes of the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x7)
- Not a tinkling of a metal fringe broke the silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/#x8)

### note

Countable. In the hair sense, British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English say «fringe»; American English says «bangs».

### In the corpora

- [Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fringe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fringe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.