marginal
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
editmarginal (not generally comparable, comparative more marginal, superlative most marginal)
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
- In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- There were more marginal notes than text.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- His writing ability was marginal at best.
- Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal.
- The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour′s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79:
- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
- 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 58:
- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
- 2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page:
- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
- 2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:
- He justified his comment by noting that the Labour Party had quickly committed to delivering a high-speed Leeds-Manchester line, and argued that pressure would grow on the Government because there were several marginal parliamentary seats around Leeds and Bradford.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
Derived terms
edit- admarginal
- bimarginal
- callosomarginal
- cingulomarginal
- circummarginal
- comarginal
- dorsomarginal
- ectomarginal
- endomarginal
- epimarginal
- extramarginal
- frontomarginal
- ice-marginal
- inferomarginal
- inframarginal
- interiomarginal
- intermarginal
- intramarginal
- marginal analysis
- marginal benefit
- marginal cost
- marginal credit
- marginal distribution
- marginal farmer
- marginalise
- marginalism
- marginalist
- marginalistic
- marginality
- marginalization
- marginalize
- marginally
- marginalness
- marginal note
- marginal sea
- marginal utility
- multimarginal
- nonmarginal
- perimarginal
- postmarginal
- submarginal
- supermarginal
- supramarginal
- transmarginal
- unmarginal
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Noun
editmarginal (plural marginals)
- Something or somebody that is marginal.
- 1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
- […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
- 2013 August 29, Clifford D. Simak, Project Pope[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- “We need a saint or some other symbol that will serve to anchor our faith into the foreseeable future. I have watched and waited for a saint but none showed up—not even a marginal saint. Mary is the first one, and we must not allow her ...
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
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editCatalan
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmarginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
- marginal
- 2016 December, “Alep: La batalla que va decidir el curs de la guerra a Síria”, in El Periódico[2]:
- Ara, els EUA juguen un paper marginal en el conflicte.
- Now, the US plays a marginal role in the conflict.
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editFurther reading
edit- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, from Latin margō (whence marge).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒi.nal/
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective
editmarginal (feminine marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
- marginal (written in the margin of a book)
- (relational) margin, edge, marginal
- coût marginal ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- fringe, fringy (outside the mainstream)
- secondary (of lesser importance)
Derived terms
editNoun
editmarginal m (plural marginaux)
Further reading
edit- “marginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmarginal (strong nominative masculine singular marginaler, not comparable)
Declension
editFurther reading
editNorwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Latin marginalis.
Adjective
editmarginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References
edit- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Latin marginalis.
Adjective
editmarginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References
edit- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
editmarginal m or f (plural marginais)
- marginal (of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge)
- outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
- Synonyms: delinquente, desviante
- (economics) marginal
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editNoun
editmarginal f (plural marginais)
Noun
editmarginal m or f by sense (plural marginais)
- outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
- Synonym: delinquente
- Aquele menino é um marginal!
- That boy is a criminal!
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French marginal. By surface analysis, margine + -al.
Adjective
editmarginal m or n (feminine singular marginală, masculine plural marginali, feminine and neuter plural marginale)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | marginal | marginală | marginali | marginale | ||
definite | marginalul | marginala | marginalii | marginalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | marginal | marginale | marginali | marginale | ||
definite | marginalului | marginalei | marginalilor | marginalelor |
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmarginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginales)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “marginal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editNoun
editmarginal c
- a margin
Declension
editDeclension of marginal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | marginal | marginalen | marginaler | marginalerna |
Genitive | marginals | marginalens | marginalers | marginalernas |
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