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border
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a line that indicates a boundary
Synonyms Used in print ("Editorials"...)Tanks lined_up at the border will be no_more helpful . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham , near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa_River , a small and dirty stream . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)So , for all practical purposes , it was an independent nation and by now had its own organized government ( unrecognized outside its own borders ) . Related terms boundary fence_line state_line green_line property_line line_of_control surround demarcate |
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[ verb ] extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
Examples "The forest surrounds my property" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans],...)Many spectators will be occupying seats and vantage_points bordering Lafayette_Square , opposite the White_House . (David Alexander, Bloodstain....)Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage_ditch , too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star . He had to make for the section of road just ahead that was bordered by the rail_fence , the section by the farmhouse . |
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[ verb ] form the boundary of; be contiguous to
Synonyms Used in print (The Wall Street Journal...)State_Briefs : Voters in four counties containing and bordering Denver authorized the imposition of an additional 2 % sales_tax within that area . |
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[ verb ] enclose in or as if in a frame
Examples "frame a picture" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)She looked out at the corn field , the great green deep acres of it rolled_out like the sea in the field beyond the whitewashed fence bordering the grounds . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)My intention , therefore , is not to say that Faulkner 's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South , but rather that he has looked_at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern . |
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[ noun ] a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
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[ verb ] lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
Examples "Canada adjoins the U.S." "England marches with Scotland" Related terms touch neighbor boundary_line boundary abutter butt_joint edging |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11738
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