Margain vs. Margin: What's the Difference?

Margain is an incorrect spelling of Margin.

Margin refers to the edge or border of a page.

An edge and the area immediately adjacent to it; a border.

The blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page.

A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable

An amount allowed beyond what is needed

A measure, quantity, or degree of difference

The minimum return that an enterprise may earn and still pay for itself.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of securities or commodities.

The difference between the market value of collateral and the face value of a loan.

An amount in money, or represented by securities, deposited by a customer with a broker as a provision against loss on transactions made on account.

(Botany) The border of a leaf.

To provide with a margin.

To be a margin to; border.

To inscribe or enter in the margin of a page.

To add margin to

To deposit margin for

To buy or hold (securities) by depositing or adding to a margin.

(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

The edge or border of any flat surface.

(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.

A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.

That which is ancillary; periphery.

(transitive) To add a margin to.

(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.

To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).

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

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

The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

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

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.

To furnish with a margin.

To enter in the margin of a page.

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

The amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

The blank space that surrounds the text on a page

A strip near the boundary of an object;

Margin can mean the amount by which something is won or falls short.

In finance, margin indicates the difference between the buying price and the selling price.

Margin can also imply a favorable or safe position.

In biology, it describes the edge of a cellular or anatomical structure.