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Border   /bˈɔrdər/   Listen
Border

noun
1.
A line that indicates a boundary.  Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete.
2.
The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.  Synonyms: margin, perimeter.
3.
The boundary of a surface.  Synonym: edge.
4.
A decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge.  Synonyms: molding, moulding.
5.
A strip forming the outer edge of something.
verb
(past & past part. bordered; pres. part. bordering)
1.
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.  Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround.
2.
Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.  Synonym: bound.
3.
Enclose in or as if in a frame.  Synonyms: frame, frame in.
4.
Provide with a border or edge.  Synonym: edge.
5.
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.  Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march.  "England marches with Scotland"



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"Border" Quotes from Famous Books



... ships in the dockyard. However, when the money was carried along through the Forum, the people were amazed[717] at the quantity, and the Senate assembling voted together with suitable thanks that an extraordinary praetorship[718] should be given to Cato, and that he should wear a dress with a purple border when he was present at the public spectacles. Cato protested against both these distinctions, but he recommended the Senate to emancipate Nikias, the king's steward, to whose care and integrity he bore testimony. At that time Philippus, the father of Marcia, ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... hostilities the thoughts of the colonists naturally turned to the Canadian border, the old battleground of the French and Indian War. Then and now a hostility was felt for Canada which had not slumbered since the burning ...
— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... and Quincy Railroad runs down its spur from the Northern Pacific near Billings, passes through the towns of Frannie—near the border of Montana and Wyoming—and Garland, and terminates at Cody. This line, running special trains throughout the day, had brought up a large number of people. During the afternoon a bomb of some kind—it was vaguely described as a variation of the red and green light-rays—had ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings
... first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she had been wont to read her secret letters. Here was the place behind the shed where she had used to hide from Roddy's persecutions, and here the border of herbaceous perennials under whose stems was fairyland. The back of the house had been the Alps for climbing, and the shrubs in front of it a Terai. The knots and broken pale that made the garden-fence scalable, ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... of finding a sharp line of demarcation between plants and animals; for, as I have already hinted, there is a border territory between the two kingdoms, a sort of no-man's-land, the inhabitants of which certainly cannot be discriminated and brought to their proper allegiance ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


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