border
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French bordeurebor.
Middle English bordure
English border
Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc.
Inflected forms:
form: borders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: borders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bordering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bordered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bordered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the Anglo-Scottish main lines passed from one country to the other were not defined, but the erection of clear and unmistakable lineside signs has put the matter beyond all doubt.
The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
23 June 2018, Mattha Busb, The Independent, Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre
A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks until she was released.
gloss: The outer edge of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the borders of the garden
upon the borders of these solitudes
in the borders of death
gloss: A decorative strip around the edge of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
a solid border around a table of figures
gloss: A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Border morris or border dancing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
gloss: A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To put a border on something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a border around; to bound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Denmark borders Germany to the south.
gloss: To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
gloss: To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly.
Related words: board
boarder
bord
bored
Derived words: boda-boda
border ballad
border blaster
Border City
border collie
border control
border czar
borderer
border fancy
border gore
border guard
borderism
border jumper
borderland
Border Leicester
borderless
borderline
borderlinking
border patrol
borderplex
border post
Border Ranges
border reiver
borderspace
borderspacing
border state
border stone
borderstone
border town
Bordertown
borderwide
borderwork
brush border
cross border
cross-border ticket
cyberborder
deborder
e-border
emborder
interborder
language border
north of the border
reborder
transborder
Two Borders
unborder
vermilion border
cross-border
border on
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