border
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bɔədə/ (Australia)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːdə/
- (US) IPA(key): /bɔrdər/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)də(r)
- Homophone: boarder
Etymology[edit]
Middle English bordure, from Old French bordure, bordeure, from border (“to border”), from bort, bord (“a border”), of Germanic origin akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). More at board.
Noun[edit]
border (plural borders)
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- Bentham
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- Barrow
- in the borders of death
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- There's a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- a solid border around a table of figures
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- 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.
- The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- (UK) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the outer edge of something
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a decorative strip around the edge of something
a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown
the line or frontier area separating regions
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Verb[edit]
border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered)
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- Archbishop Tillotson
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
- Archbishop Tillotson
Translations[edit]
(transitive) to put a border on something
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(transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border
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Derived terms[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bord + -er, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Verb[edit]
border
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of border (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | border | avoir bordé | |||||
| gerund | en bordant | en ayant bordé | |||||
| present participle | bordant | ||||||
| past participle | bordé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | borde | bordes | borde | bordons | bordez | bordent |
| imperfect | bordais | bordais | bordait | bordions | bordiez | bordaient | |
| past historic1 | bordai | bordas | borda | bordâmes | bordâtes | bordèrent | |
| future | borderai | borderas | bordera | borderons | borderez | borderont | |
| conditional | borderais | borderais | borderait | borderions | borderiez | borderaient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | borde | bordes | borde | bordions | bordiez | bordent |
| imperfect1 | bordasse | bordasses | bordât | bordassions | bordassiez | bordassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | borde | — | bordons | bordez | — | ||
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