BORDER


Meaning of BORDER in English

noun a narrow flower bed.

2. border ·vt to confine within bounds; to limit.

3. border ·vi to approach; to come near to; to verge.

4. border ·noun a strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

5. border ·noun the outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, ·etc.; margin; verge; brink.

6. border ·noun a boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

7. border ·vt to make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

8. border ·vi to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent;

— with on or upon as, connecticut borders on massachusetts.

9. border ·vt 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.

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