border
Other forms: borders; bordering; bordered
When you cross a border from one country into another, you'll need to show your identification papers and maybe a visa to the border patrol officials.
A border separates one thing from another, most famously countries. Sometimes neighboring countries have border disputes, if they don't think the lines were drawn fairly or if they don't get along. Borders can also be less official. You might want to plant a border of cabbages along your front walk, or you could sew a border of sequins along the edge of your collar. But you'd have to go easy on the sequins, as too many would "border on the garish."
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the boundary of a surface
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a line that indicates a boundarysynonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, meteexamples:Green Linethe border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independenceLine of Controla 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistantypes:fence linea boundary line created by a fenceproperty linethe boundary line between two pieces of property
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the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
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a strip forming the outer edge of something“the rug had a wide blue border”types:edgingborder consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)vergea grass border along a roadfringean ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tasselsorphreya richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestmenttype of:edgethe outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
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a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
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form the boundary of; be contiguous to
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lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
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extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircletypes:fringedecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringecloistersurround with a cloisterhem insurround in a restrictive mannercloistersurround with a cloister, as of a gardenbankenclose with a bankencapsulateenclose in a capsule or other small containercasketenclose in a casketcorralenclose in a corralhedgehinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
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enclose in or as if in a frame
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provide with a border or edge
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