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English

Pronunciation


Homophones


Etymology

From bordure.

Noun

  1. The outer edge of something.
  2. : a solid 1px border around a table
  3. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
  4. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
  5. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
  6. Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black make up.


Translations

  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|rand|m}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|bord|m}}, {{t+|fr|bordure|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Grenze|f}}
  • Hebrew:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|confine|f}}
  • Norwegian: {{t+|no|ytterkant|m}}, {{t-|no|kant|m}}, {{t-|no|rand|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|borda|f}}, {{t+|pt|margem|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|граница|f|tr=granítsa|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|край|m|tr=kraj|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|кромка|f|tr=krómka|sc=Cyrl}},
  • Serbian: {{t-|sr|granica|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|borde|m}}
  • French:
  • Norwegian: {{t+|no|bord|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|orla|f}}
  • Russian: {{t|ru|кайма|f|tr=kajmá|sc=Cyrl}} of clothes, {{t|ru|бордюр|m|tr=bord'úr|sc=Cyrl}} of a road or oavement, {{t|ru|фриз|m|tr=friz|sc=Cyrl}} of a building
  • Serbian: graničnik
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|border|m}}
  • Arabic:
  • Aragonese: muga
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|granica|f}}
  • Chinese: 国境 (guó jìng)
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|hranice|f}}
  • Danish: {{t+|da|grænse|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|grens|f}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|frontière|f}}
  • German: Grenze , Gemerke
  • Hebrew: גבול (gvul)
  • Icelandic:
  • Indonesian: {{t+|id|perbatasan|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|confine|f}},
  • Japanese: 国境 (くにざかい, kunizakai; こっきょう, kokkyō)
  • Korean: 국경 (gukgyeong)
  • Norwegian: {{t+|no|grense|m}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|granica|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fronteira|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t+|ro|graniţă|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|граница|f|tr=granítsa|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Serbian: {{t-|sr|granica|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|frontera|f}}
  • Thai: (chaai daen)
  • Yiddish: {{t-|yi|גרענעץ|m|f|tr=grenets|sc=Hebr|xs=Yiddish}}

Verb

  1. To put a border on something.
  2. To lie on, or adjacent to a border.


Translations

  • Russian: {{t|ru|ограничивать|tr=ograníčivat'|sc=Cyrl}} , {{t|ru|ограничить|tr=ograníčit'|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Danish:
  • German:
  • Russian: {{t|ru|граничить|tr=graníčit'|sc=Cyrl}}
  • :
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Derived terms


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French

Etymology

bord + -er#French|-er

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Fr-border.ogg


Noun

border

  1. to border


Conjugation

de:border et:border fa:border fr:border gl:border hy:border io:border id:border it:border kk:border ku:border lo:border hu:border nl:border pl:border ro:border ru:border fi:border ta:border te:border vi:border uk:border zh:border

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Border \Bor"der\, v. t.
1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for
ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
[1913 Webster]

2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched,
as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or
boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered
on the north by a forest.
[1913 Webster]

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the
"hot region." --Prescott.
[1913 Webster]

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the
Persian gulf. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
[1913 Webster]

3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Border \Bor"der\, n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to
border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte
border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board
in sense 8. See Board, n., and cf. Bordure.]
1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
[1913 Webster]

Upon the borders of these solitudes. --Bentham.
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In the borders of death. --Barrow.
[1913 Webster]

2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part
of a country; a frontier district.
[1913 Webster]

3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of
something, as an ornament or finish.
[1913 Webster]

4. A narrow flower bed.
[1913 Webster]

Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining
countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as,
the border land of science.

The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier
districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent.

Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary;
confine.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Border \Bor"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bordered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Bordering.]
1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on
Massachusetts.
[1913 Webster]

2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
[1913 Webster]

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be
branded as folly. --Abp.
Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet border
n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line, borderline,
delimitation, mete]
2: the boundary line or the area immediately inside the
boundary [syn: margin, perimeter]
3: the boundary of a surface [syn: edge]
4: a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge [syn: molding,
moulding]
5: a strip forming the outer edge of something; "the rug had a
wide blue border"
v 1: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest
surrounds my property" [syn: surround, skirt]
2: form the boundary of; be contiguous to [syn: bound]
3: enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture" [syn: frame,
frame in]
4: provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with
embroidery" [syn: edge]
5: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins
the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: adjoin,
edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on]
Moby Dictionary
Berlin wall , Japanese garden , Pillars of Hercules , abut , abut on ,
act drop , adjoin , alpine garden , ambit , approach , approximate ,
arboretum , arena , asbestos , asbestos board , backdrop , bailiwick ,
bamboo curtain , bank , batten , be contiguous , be in contact , beam ,
beat , bed , befringe , beginning , bind , binding , board , bog garden ,
border ground , border on , borderland , borderline , borders , bordure ,
botanical garden , bound , boundary , bounds , brim , brink , broadside ,
brow , butt , cheek , chop , circle , circuit , circumference ,
circumscribe , cloth , coast , communicate , compare , confine ,
confines , conjoin , connect , contour , cortex , coulisse ,
counterweight , covering , crust , curtain , curtain board , cyclorama ,
dado , decor , define , delineate , demesne , department , domain ,
dominion , door , drop , drop curtain , dry garden , edge , edging ,
encircle , enclose , end , enframe , entrance , envelope , epidermis ,
exterior , external , extremity , facade , face , facet , featheredge ,
field , fire curtain , flange , flank , flat , flipper , flower bed ,
flower garden , frame , frieze , fringe , front , frontier ,
frontier post , garden , garden spot , grape ranch , grapery , hand ,
handedness , hanging , haunch , hem , hemisphere , herbarium , hip ,
hortus siccus , integument , iron curtain , jardin , join , jowl ,
judicial circuit , jurisdiction , kitchen garden , labellum , labium ,
labrum , lap , laterality , ledge , lie by , limb , limbus , limit ,
limits , line , lineaments , lines , lip , list , many-sidedness , march ,
marches , marchland , marge , margin , marginate , mark off ,
market garden , metes and bounds , multilaterality , near , neighbor ,
orb , orbit , ornamental garden , outer face , outer layer , outer side ,
outer skin , outline , outpost , outside , outskirts , pale , paradise ,
perimeter , periphery , pinetum , planking , precinct , profile ,
province , purfle , purl , quarter , rag , ragged edge , realm , rim ,
rind , rock garden , roof garden , round , scene , scenery , screen ,
selvage , set off , shell , shore , shrubbery , side , side scene ,
sideline , siding , skin , skirt , sphere , stage screw , stand by ,
sunken garden , superficies , superstratum , surface , surround , tab ,
tableau , tea garden , teaser , temple , termination , three-mile limit ,
threshold , top , tormentor , touch , transformation ,
transformation scene , trench , trim , trimming , truck garden ,
twelve-mile limit , unilaterality , vegetable garden , verge ,
verge upon , victory garden , vinery , vineyard , wainscot ,
wainscoting , walk , wing , wingcut , woodcut


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