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The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.countableuncountable
- The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
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The outer edge of something.countableuncountable
- the borders of the garden
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A decorative strip around the edge of something.countableuncountable
- There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- a solid border around a table of figures
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A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.countableuncountable
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Border morris or border dancing.UKuncountable
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A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.countableuncountable
border
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To put a border on something.transitive
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To form a border around; to bound.transitive
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To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.transitive
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
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To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).intransitive
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
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To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).intransitive
- Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly.