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Meaning border meaning

What does border mean?
Definitions in simple English

border Noun

— The border of a country is the edge of the country: the place where that country touches another country. You can't cross the border without identification papers. — The border of a shape or of a picture or of part of a picture is the edge of it. She drew three pink hearts with red borders at the top of the picture.

border Verb

— If something is bordered with or in something, that goes all around it. The newspaper notice was bordered in black. — If one place borders on another, they are side by side. The Sea of Japan is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea.

border

— noun (= boundary line) a line that indicates a boundary — verb (= surround) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle The forest surrounds my property — verb (= bound) form the boundary of; be contiguous to — noun (= edge) the boundary of a surface — noun (= margin) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary — verb (= frame) enclose in or as if in a frame frame a picture — verb (= edge) provide with a border or edge edge the tablecloth with embroidery — verb (= adjoin, march) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary Canada adjoins the U.S. England marches with Scotland — noun a strip forming the outer edge of something the rug had a wide blue border — noun (= molding) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

Synonyms border synonyms

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border English » English

edge boundary frontier limit rim margin end fringe side hem brink perimeter edging brim verge borderline bound periphery march line adjoin confine bank boundary line skirt shore list frame extremity circumference be adjacent barrier abut welt vicinity tip selvage seam neighbor moulding molding mete marge juncture frame in environs delimitation butt brow bounds

Topics border topics

What do people use border to talk about?
States Parts of things

Edge
Social behavior Government Region

Country
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Boundary
States Location Here, there Touching, contact

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Conjugation border conjugation

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border · verb

Examples border examples

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Simple sentences

Germany shares a border with the Netherlands.
We camped on the border of the lake.
The constant border wars between England and Scotland came to an end.
They are on the border of starvation.
We'll be across the border by tomorrow.
Germany shares a border with France.
What countries border on Slovenia?
The customs office is at the border.
I was asked to show my passport at the border.
Twenty-five hundred British soldiers guarded the border.
We live near the border.
The border between the two neighbouring countries remains closed.
The border is closed.
The city lies on the border of the coastal area and the neighboring highland.
California and Nevada border on each other.
Both Canada and Mexico border on the United States.
They crossed the border into Spain.
Money's always to be found when we need to send men to be killed on the border; but there's none left when it comes time to help them.
The tourist bus crossed the border.
There is a border between America and Mexico.
Lojbanistan is on the border with Esperantujo.
Canada and Mexico both share a border with the USA.

Movie subtitles

That has to border on unethical.
The rug there now also has three diamonds but a black border.
This is not just another border skirmish. We're not equipped for a situation like this.
As soon as he cross the border, he will be arrested.
The soldiers of fortune were ordered to leave, and were kept under guard until crossing the border.
In the meantime, the Russian Bolsheviks plundered border villages.
From the river to the border with the kingdom, everything belongs to you.
But we have border passes.
Border's closed for the unemployed.
How you even gonna get across the border?
I know, all right. I got the whole border covered.
With a Roman army waiting at the border?
He's a son of Scotland who has crossed the border and conquered England. He is now one of the foremost figures. in the diplomatic political world in the great city of London.
Following is the description of Mantee's car heading for the border.
I got the whole border covered.
My Lord Ambassador. this passport will assure your safe journey to the border.
Right across the border.
When we reach the border, there will be snow and we shall change to sleds.
He's also distinguished himself by exemplary bravery on the Turkish border.
He's a son of Scotland who has crossed the border and conquered England.
The safety of the border depends upon smashing this madman once and for all.
He had it marked. Right on the border of Tibet.
I just thought because of the inspection or later at the border. It's always good to have tickets.
Because we won't get across the border.
We'll get across the border before it gets light. and when we do, I won't lose a minute sending for Bonnie and the baby.
The last sign said 6 miles from the border.
My guess is, somewhere near the Canadian border by now.
THE GIRL'S ACROSS THE BORDER.
SHE'S OUT OF THE COUNTRY ACROSS THE BORDER.
Across the border.
Border?
The line crosses the border there.
If we're not over the border by sunrise, we'll all be in jail.
Why don't you make for the border now?
Make for the border and I'll come to you.
Curley's going to see that you get to my place across the border.

News and current affairs

People too easily forget Ukraine, this big country on the border of the soon-to-be enlarged European Union.
With EU expansion coming next spring, all Ukrainians fear that a new wall will cut their country off from the Union's easternmost border in Poland.
But from the start, the EU should give a signal by unilaterally opening its border to imports from the region.
Inter-state combat may still occur where strategic front lines can be found, such as Israel's border with Syria, India's border with Pakistan, and the border dividing the two Koreas.
Indeed, without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border, and without Pakistani financial backing, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
Without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border and the backing by the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
Both America and Israel have cited foot-dragging in implementing UN Resolution 1559, which calls for disarming all non-state actors in Lebanon and the deployment of government forces all the way to the southern border.
The US economy is in trouble, and the problems it spins off are unlikely to stop at the US border.
These include a hateful bill - which the House of Representatives has already approved - that provides for the construction of a wall along the US-Mexican border and makes unauthorized entry into the US a felony.
The best way to accentuate the region's growing anti-American sentiment is to try to close the US-Mexican border (which will be futile).
But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.
Mexico has to assume responsibility for regulating this traffic, which means more than sealing off its southern border.
In the US, alligator-filled moats and electrified border fences have featured in the current presidential campaign.
But Obama will have to define a clearer US policy, addressing China's rapid rise under an authoritarian regime that aggressively pursues border claims and whips up nationalism at home.
She will continue to emphasize close relations with France because there is no alternative; Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
The two countries' recent rapprochement marks a huge change from the hostility that bedeviled their relations following their 1962 war over a disputed border in the Himalayas.
A high-level group on border and transport security is at work, and links between member states' police chiefs are strengthening.
Furthermore, the European Border Agency will become operational in 2005.
There are also long-standing border disputes between China and India, and between India and China's ally, Pakistan.
Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul's visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish-Armenian relations requires opening the two countries' closed border - the last in Europe.
A system based on sharia (Islamic law) has been imposed, human-rights abuses are legion, and cross-border movement of weapons and militants has undermined the security of Libya's neighbors.
Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.

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