'Border' definitions:
Definition of 'border'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
noun
The boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border]
noun
noun
A strip forming the outer edge of something; "the rug had a wide blue border"
verb
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border]
verb
Form the boundary of; be contiguous to [syn: bound, border]
verb
verb
Provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge]
verb
Definition of 'Border'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
Definition of 'Border'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Border'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'border'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Berlin wall,
- 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,
- Japanese garden,
- 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,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- 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