BORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does border mean? 

• BORDER (noun)
  The noun BORDER has 5 senses:

1. a line that indicates a boundary

2. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

3. the boundary of a surface

4. a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

5. a strip forming the outer edge of something

  Familiarity information: BORDER used as a noun is common.

• BORDER (verb)
  The verb BORDER has 5 senses:

1. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

2. form the boundary of; be contiguous to

3. enclose in or as if in a frame

4. provide with a border or edge

5. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

  Familiarity information: BORDER used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line that indicates a boundary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

border; borderline; boundary line; delimitation; mete

Hypernyms ("border" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; bounds (the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "border"):

circuit; circumference (the boundary line encompassing an area or object)

fence line (a boundary line created by a fence)

property line (the boundary line between two pieces of property)

state boundary; state line (the boundary between two states)

Instance hyponyms:

Green Line (the border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independence)

Line of Control (a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan)

Derivation:

border (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

border (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

border (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

border; margin; perimeter

Hypernyms ("border" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "border"):

lip (either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell)

Derivation:

border (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The boundary of a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

border; edge

Hypernyms ("border" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; bounds (the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "border"):

limb ((astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet)

brink (the edge of a steep place)

Derivation:

border (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

border (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

border (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

border; molding; moulding

Hypernyms ("border" is a kind of...):

edge (the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something)

Holonyms ("border" is a part of...):

picture frame (a framework in which a picture is mounted)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A strip forming the outer edge of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the rug had a wide blue border

Hypernyms ("border" is a kind of...):

edge (the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "border"):

selvage; selvedge (border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet)

verge (a grass border along a road)

edging (border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug))

Derivation:

border (enclose in or as if in a frame)

border (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

• BORDER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they border    ... he / she / it borders   
Past simple: bordered   
Past participle: bordered   
-ing form: bordering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

border; environ; ring; skirt; surround

Context example:

The forest surrounds my property

Hypernyms (to "border" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "border"):

fringe (decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe)

gird; girdle (put a girdle on or around)

cloister (surround with a cloister)

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

hem in (surround in a restrictive manner)

cloister (surround with a cloister, as of a garden)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

border (a strip forming the outer edge of something)

border (a line that indicates a boundary)

border (the boundary of a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form the boundary of; be contiguous to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

border; bound

Hypernyms (to "border" is one way to...):

confine; enclose; hold in (close in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "border"):

skirt (form the edge of)

verge (border on; come close to)

shore (serve as a shore to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Also:

border on (come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character)

Derivation:

border (a line that indicates a boundary)

border (the boundary of a surface)

border (the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Enclose in or as if in a frame

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

border; frame; frame in

Context example:

frame a picture

Hypernyms (to "border" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

border (a strip forming the outer edge of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Provide with a border or edge

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

border; edge

Context example:

edge the tablecloth with embroidery

Hypernyms (to "border" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march

Context example:

England marches with Scotland

Hypernyms (to "border" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "border"):

neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

border (a line that indicates a boundary)

border (the boundary of a surface)

 Context examples 

Camiglibose binds to and inhibits alpha-glucosidase, an enteric enzyme found in the brush border of the small intestines that hydrolyzes oligosaccharides and disaccharides into glucose and other monosaccharides.

(Camiglibose, NCI Thesaurus)

Phosphorylation of Cdc25C on serine-216 causes the arrest of the cell cycle at the G2/M phase border by preventing Cdc25C from activating cyclinB1/Cdk1.

(Cell Cycle Progression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A country in southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and surrounded by Malaysia.

(Brunei Darussalam, NCI Thesaurus)

Deep vein of the upper arm that forms at the junction of the radial and ulnar veins and ends at the inferior border of the teres major.

(Brachial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

An atypical mole is often larger with borders that are not easy to see.

(Atypical mole, NCI Dictionary)

An artery formed by the union of the two vertebral arteries at the posterior border of the pons then diverges at the anterior border forming the two superior and two posterior cerebral arteries.

(Basilar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A highly differentiated variant of cervical squamous cell carcinoma characterized by the presence of a warty surface and stromal invasion with pushing borders.

(Cervical Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The southernmost state of Mexico, bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

(Chiapas, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in south western Mexico bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

(Colima, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama.

(Colombia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)