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border

noun
/ˈbɔə.də//ˈbɔː.də/UK/ˈbɔɹ.dɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Old French bordeurebor. Middle English bordure English border Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er. Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board. Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc.

  1. derived from *bord✻
  2. derived from bordeure
  3. inherited from bordure

Definitions

  1. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

    • 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.

  2. The outer edge of something.

    • the borders of the garden
    • upon the borders of these solitudes
    • in the borders of death

  3. 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
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.

    2. Border morris or border dancing.

    3. A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.

    4. To put a border on something.

    5. To form a border around

      To form a border around; to bound.

    6. To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.

      • Denmark borders Germany to the south.

    7. To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).

      • Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

    8. To approach

      To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).

      • Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly.

    9. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

boda-boda, border ballad, border blaster, Border City, border collie, border control, border czar, borderer, border fancy, border gore, border guard, borderism, border jumper, borderland, Border Leicester, borderless, borderline, borderlinking, border patrol, borderplex, border post, Border Ranges, border reiver, borderspace, borderspacing, border state, border stone, borderstone, border town, Bordertown, borderwide, borderwork, brush border, cross border, cross-border ticket, cyberborder, deborder, e-border, emborder, interborder · +9 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at border. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at border. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at border

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA