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单词 boundary
释义
boundary
(bndəri )
Word forms: boundaries
1. countable noun B2
The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
...the Bow Brook which forms the western boundary of the wood. [+ of]
Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
[Also + between]
Synonyms: frontier, edge, border, march  
2. countable noun [usually plural] B2
The boundaries of something such as a subject or activity are the limits that people think that it has.
The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled. [+ between]
...extending the boundaries of press freedom. [+ of]
Synonyms: limits, bounds, confines, threshold  
Collocations:
appropriate boundaries
Even with appropriate boundaries and good support, however, compassion takes its toll.
Christianity Today
They include a study into 'where the appropriate boundaries of taste and standards should lie'.
The Sun
You need them to bring their enthusiasm and creativity but within appropriate boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
It may be that he feels unable to talk with him and even to set appropriate boundaries when necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
And he 'appears to have difficulty judging the appropriate boundaries when engaging in banter with the players'.
The Sun
boundary limit
This meant that geographical and chronological boundaries would be considered less important than the natural boundaries limited only by the significance of the subject matter.
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The boundary limits diffusion; it keeps all of the necessary catalysts in close proximity to each other.
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Mechanisms that facilitate the transmission of credible information across international boundaries limit bargaining failure, enhancing interstate peace.
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boundary marker
Ostensibly, it's just a practical boundary marker - invented for wholly pragmatic reasons - but it also harbours life.
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It may have been an old boundary marker.
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This was interpreted to mean that it was a boundary marker.
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It was first mentioned in a 17th-century document, where it was used as a village boundary marker.
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It may have been dug as a defensive fortification, or possibly a boundary marker.
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break the boundary
We do that often, and think of ways to break the boundary.
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A work breaking all boundaries between narrative and poetry was probably bound to be uneven.
The Times Literary Supplement
That's a tricky issue for universities, as they are there to break the boundaries of knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
Though it doesn't break any boundaries, it showcases his talent both as a songwriter and guitarist.
The Sun
The vibrations created by the colors are endless and break the boundary between the inner space of the image and the external space of the viewer.
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challenge a boundary
Offending an opponent has long been a feature of polemics, just as challenging the boundaries of taste has been a feature of art.
Times, Sunday Times
However, he swiftly discovered a relish in challenging the boundaries of mainstream humour.
Times, Sunday Times
He challenges the boundaries between sculpture and commercial design.
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Mediation broke down without a result satisfactory to the groups, so they filed to challenge the boundaries in court.
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Challenging the boundaries of the freedom of expression, he took great risks and in fact, was repeatedly threatened.
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clear boundary
Children need unconditional love, but they also need clear boundaries, based on reasoned explanation.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
At present in the UK, the law provides a clear boundary.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If you can't get back together, then get clear boundaries in place.
The Sun (2013)
conventional boundary
It meant she wasn't limited by conventional boundaries in learning, which made things like exams challenging.
Times, Sunday Times
His poems, epics, plays and novels broke tradition and crossed conventional boundaries.
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He believed in the need to trespass conventional boundaries between artistic disciplines.
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The faculty members work closely together, often stepping across conventional boundaries.
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Intrinsically ambivalent and polymorphous, she straddles conventional boundaries and eludes definition.
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create a boundary
Be clear about this and create some boundaries so that she has to work for your time and attention.
Times, Sunday Times
It specifies the ownership of certain islands and creates a boundary of seven straight-line maritime segments defined by eight individual coordinate points.
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This second reaction creates a boundary (either a microtubule or some other closed capsid like structure), that serves to contain the first reaction.
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The cold air from the sea meets the warmer air from the land and creates a boundary like a shallow cold front.
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cross a boundary
Moreover, the two kinds rarely cross that boundary and venture into each other's territory.
Times, Sunday Times
Say you care for him deeply — but strictly as friends and that it was a mistake to cross that boundary.
The Sun
For those of us who are atheist, agnostic or merely watery believers, it's impossible to cross the boundary to understand literal belief.
Times, Sunday Times
Is it usually a mistake to cross the boundary with a friend?
The Sun
Most drivers pay much less than that because they cross the boundary only twice, on the way into work and on the way back home again.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural boundary
I've got over that nonsense, too, thanks to the erosion of the old cultural boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
The first album was about possibilities, about breaking down musical and cultural boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
It's true that there's a deep-seated affection for the brick, which seems to transcend cultural boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
Do they not convey the way in which sport transcends cultural boundaries and epochs, reaching into the intrinsic fascination we find in raw competition and unscripted drama?
Times, Sunday Times
He's still a master of drilling into cultural boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
define a boundary
It will define a boundary a certain distance from the ground grid of the sub station.
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Every society member would define the boundary between the last two stages at his or her own discretion.
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Most companies are looking for guidance, particularly when it comes to defining the boundaries between coaching and counselling.
Times, Sunday Times
How to define the boundaries of an art form?
The Times Literary Supplement
But he also cautioned that defining the boundary between species was notoriously fraught.
Times, Sunday Times
delineate a boundary
Their strengths and capabilities delineate my boundaries, define my physical life.
Times, Sunday Times
The eucalypt-mulga line crosses the reserve, delineating the boundary between arid wattle-dominated, and temperate eucalypt-dominated, botanical regions.
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A sharp line delineates the boundary between the close-cut sides and back and the longer top portion, referring to the tight part of its name.
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Although the zones are markedly different from one another, no natural features clearly delineate the boundaries between them.
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These deterred the intrusion of others and delineated the boundaries between neighbouring areas.
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demarcate a boundary
Both also sought to defuse these confrontations, first by establishing joint patrols and a commission to demarcate the boundary across the lake more clearly.
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The mediators recommended that a neutral technical commission be set up to demarcate the boundary.
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Rostrally, the isthmus demarcates the boundary with the midbrain or mesencephalon.
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There have been problems in demarcating the boundary line and in erecting border pillars at several places.
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Read helped in demarcating the boundaries of the town and in getting it recognized as a parish in 1729.
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determine a boundary
After all, we are not short of laws that determine the boundaries of free speech.
Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, the people gave the federal courts final authority to determine the constitutionality of federal statutes and to determine the boundary between federal power and state power.
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Yes: the ruling will determine the boundaries of parliamentary sovereignty and the limits of the royal prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it.
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In addition, constables also determined the boundaries and borders of the kingdom.
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disciplinary boundary
Of course, it should be said that toppling disciplinary boundaries can be a high-risk enterprise.
The Times Literary Supplement
That extra work that it takes to communicate-and collaborate-across traditional disciplinary boundaries can add to the sense of accomplishment and enjoyment in the results.
Christianity Today
Part of it was the usual problem of crossing disciplinary boundaries.
The Times Literary Supplement
We rely on convention established by a small and elite group of scientists within disciplinary boundaries.
The Scientist
She tested disciplinary boundaries, jumped canonical fences, and opened the gates to the awkward squad.
The Times Literary Supplement
dissolve a boundary
To dissolve that boundary, he believed, would be to relinquish the autonomy of art.
The Times Literary Supplement
Computers used to be programmed by programmers and used by users, but the web and our increasing participation in it has dissolved that boundary.
Times, Sunday Times
Eaves delights in dissolving the boundaries between categories and forms of knowledge.
The Times Literary Supplement
district boundary
There are no signs or other indicators of the district boundary along the local and county roads that serve it.
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The district boundary has been changed many times.
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Two of the greatest hindrances to this type of research were the unavailability of historical congressional district boundary maps and historical congressional election maps.
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The district boundary follows a combination of lot lines and streets.
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The physical survey and historical research of others led to the discovery of additional historic sites and artifacts both inside and outside of the original historic district boundary.
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draw a boundary
Mathematics was the most important part of his life, but he did not draw any boundary between his mathematics and the rest of his life.
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They usually stop and give up halfway, whereas you draw a boundary in front of yourself to restrict you from moving forward.
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They had no advisers to inform them of the well-established procedures and information needed to draw a boundary.
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They would draw the boundary at islands at right angles to the tips of the islands back to the middle of the river.
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How exactly do we draw the boundary between a chiefdom and an early state?
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eastern boundary
The college then purchased further property on its eastern boundary.
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The eastern boundary of the basin contain some outcrops of pavements which prove glaciation.
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This system differs from the first survey because rather than running section lines parallel to the eastern boundary they run true north-south.
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The city ranges in altitude between about 560 m, in the city centre, and 1170 m, on its eastern boundary.
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Hills along the eastern boundary rise to several hundred feet.
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erase a boundary
At a stroke he had erased the boundaries between sculpture and paintings, the latter now transformed into threedimensional objects.
Times, Sunday Times
This fantasy erases the boundary between living beings and manufactured things.
Times, Sunday Times
The living room has large sliding glass doors that open out onto the garden, literally erasing the boundary of inside and out.
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establish a boundary
Repeating this enough will establish a boundary of vision for that target.
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Colonial surveyors had been unable to accurately establish the boundary due to their poor training and inadequate scientific instruments.
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The industry should find the appropriate cases to establish the boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
You need to establish your boundaries; negotiate deadlines and don't be afraid to say no.
Times, Sunday Times
They establish the boundaries of legal descriptions and the boundaries of various lines of political divisions.
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ethical boundary
Yes, she plays rough she admits, 'but we never cross, or even go near, ethical boundaries'.
Times, Sunday Times
His methods push sports science to its limits - and, some say, to its ethical boundaries.
The Sun
Though such work could provide insights into medical problems, scientists recognise they are pushing ethical boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
Strictly speaking, it comes down to a 'letter of the law versus spirit of the law' argument and where the ethical boundaries lie.
Times, Sunday Times
It appears to be sound advice but while the author dealt it out, was he breaking the ethical boundaries of his own trade by indulging in plagiarism?
Times, Sunday Times
exceed a boundary
Was it a 'joke' in bad taste, unacceptable, exceeding the boundaries of what we might expect from a public service broadcaster to whom we pay our licence fee?
Times, Sunday Times
Multiplying by one side results in oblong which exceeds the boundary of the circle.
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The two protagonists sometimes sing, dance and try slapstick, involving activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense.
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Stories that exceed the boundaries of realism are called fables.
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expand a boundary
Sure, eclipses are disruptive and even frightening but once you've expanded your boundaries, there'll be nothing to fear but fear itself.
ST
Market mechanisms, subject to rigorous regulation, are a proven method of expanding the boundaries of knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
At home and abroad, she expanded the boundaries of freedom and sculpted a legacy that spanned generations and crossed party lines.
The Sun
The fact that he has committed $100 million of his own money to the search means that it might actually expand the boundaries of human knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
Continued public support, though, induced the legislature to expand the boundaries and appropriate more funding the next year.
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explore the boundaries
His work employed algorithmic processes and gestural controllers to explore the boundary where humans encounter their machines.
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Some titles were kept deliberately inaudible by the members in order to explore the boundary of music.
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In fact, we're going to explore the boundaries of that a bit more than we have in the past.
The Sun
As technologies move forward, we want to explore the boundaries of eco-house building.
Times, Sunday Times
He explores the boundaries of human endurance, suggesting that pain thresholds 'served slaveholders as a sort of physiological perimeter - a line of control'.
The Times Literary Supplement
extend a boundary
They were tightly clutching hands, another odd couple, merrily extending the boundaries of love.
Times, Sunday Times
He had great fortune in extending the boundaries of the margraviate against his neighbours.
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When compared to the plimsoll symbol used on vessels, the horizontal bar should however extend the boundaries of the circle.
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It constantly attempts to extend the boundaries of artistic design, while also introducing the newest digital technologies.
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An additional contribution of approximately 200acre km2 extended the boundary east of the river.
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firm boundary
Thus, the land and lagoon areas can only be given approximately, as no firm boundary exists between the main island body and the salt flats.
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Help him to see what you are doing to support him - from hugs and sympathy, to firm boundaries and consequences for rudeness.
Times, Sunday Times
However, choices and freedoms should not be traded for firm boundaries and, most importantly, consequences to those boundaries being ignored or transgressed.
The Sun
She needs firm boundaries and to know you both care enough to make an effort.
The Sun
Ask him to give her firm boundaries so you can move back in with him.
The Sun
form a boundary
One will form the boundary for an urban park, while the other three will be turned into apartment blocks.
Times, Sunday Times
The stumps were stacked in fence rows, which still form the boundary of some of the old fields in the park.
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If gases had no viscosity, then they would not stick to the surface of a wing and form a boundary layer.
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Tamarisk trees formed a boundary with the small, sandy beach.
Times, Sunday Times
Beyond the playground a neat stone wall forms the boundary of a memorial garden.
Times, Sunday Times
genre boundary
All of your metal expectations will be incorrect, we are pushing genre boundaries.
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Portrait, landscape, still life shall lose canonical genre boundaries and appear as reflections the life in its complex spatial and temporal metamorphosis.
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The writers involved are mostly novelists who are considered to be parts of the horror and/or speculative fiction genres but who often cross genre boundaries.
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The performances of these bands typically feature extended musical improvisation (jams) over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music that can often cross genre boundaries.
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geographic boundary
Free ports are areas that, while inside the geographic boundaries of a country, are considered to be outside it for customs purposes.
Times, Sunday Times
Politicians, economists and ecologist must work with citizens across cultural, organizational, institutional, political and geographic boundaries.
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They are authorized by state-approved institutions such as universities and school boards, and as such have no geographic boundaries.
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The parks listed are provisional geographic boundaries initially set forth by representatives from the countries.
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It identifies and promotes scientific advances across disciplines and professional and geographic boundaries, and builds bridges and synergies between institutions and individuals.
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geographical boundaries
Our geographical boundaries have widened, but made society shrink.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Nor are they constrained by geographical boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They should have the freedom to choose a practice that suits their lives and not be restricted by geographical boundaries.
The Sun (2011)
invisible boundary
We step across an invisible boundary where those crops give way to bananas.
Smithsonian
On his return, he found that the flock had not left the invisible boundary.
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Worlds are constrained by their size, the size of the world being the amount of build-able land before you reach an invisible boundary which objects may not pass outside of.
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I like to give her as much freedom as possible within those invisible boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
However, they are often confined to one part of the game world by invisible boundaries.
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maintain a boundary
I believe you have to fight ferociously to maintain boundaries and then you can develop a body of work over time.
The Sun
These rituals have no victor, but merely maintain the boundaries of the territories.
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They have difficulty however in maintaining the boundaries of an independent and autonomous self.
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However, he struggles with maintaining this boundary and begins to believe in magic himself.
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In this sense it can allow people to maintain boundaries, psychic integrity and avoid undesired impact by or upon others, related to emotional demands.
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maritime boundary
However, maritime boundary disputes in themselves are far from rare.
Times, Sunday Times
Both countries submissions mentioned that neither has signed any maritime boundary delimitation agreements with any of its neighbouring states.
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Both countries also have a continental shelf boundary agreement for this segment of their maritime boundary.
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The two countries had been negotiating their maritime boundary since 1989.
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Maritime boundary delimitation was necessary to facilitate law enforcement and resource management, and to avoid conflict, within the countries' overlapping two-hundred mile maritime zones.
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mark a boundary
Evidence of this appears on three of the boundary stelae used to mark the boundaries of this new capital.
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Neither net nor line on the ground mark the boundary between the two areas.
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In field sports, such as tennis played on grass, powdered chalk was used to mark the boundary lines of the playing field or court.
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In the past, this was regularly used to mark the boundaries between modern suburban houses.
The Sun
A yellow sign marked the boundary between rows of young palm trees and a tangle of rainforest.
Times, Sunday Times
moral boundary
His camera pries where others shy away; his moral boundaries are missing.
Times, Sunday Times
There will always be a few people in any walk of life who will step beyond the moral boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
Obviously there's far more to her than meets the eye, in a case that will stretch the moral boundaries of the staff to breaking point.
Times, Sunday Times
The moral boundaries that are so clear to most people start to blur.
Times, Sunday Times
Moral boundaries become disastrously blurred, and with gossip rife, the new order becomes both power-drunk and a pretext for pursuing personal vendettas.
Times, Sunday Times
national boundaries
Maps that display national boundaries have an amazingly short shelf life.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
That will require much more co-operation across national boundaries, international regulation and the pooling of financial information.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Winners and losers remain within those national boundaries.
Television - policy and culture (1990)
negotiate a boundary
In 1818, diplomats of the two countries attempted to negotiate a boundary between the rival claims.
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So for this holiday, we have negotiated some boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
Say you're going to get help to negotiate some boundaries you can accept.
The Sun
northern boundary
Five villages on the park's northern boundary were selected for the research, which recorded instances of elephants raiding crops being grown close to and within human settlements.
Times, Sunday Times
This now forms part of the northern boundary, but has almost disappeared amid selfseeded trees.
Times, Sunday Times
River borders the northern boundary in a wooded area.
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It was strung along the northern boundary of each ranch.
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Stakes, a mile north of the park's northern boundary.
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outer boundary
Possibly, in another 50 years, when we're all living to 100, being 50 may (just about) legitimately be considered to mark the outer boundary of youth.
Times, Sunday Times
By translating we can assume 1 lies on the outer boundary.
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However, at the outer boundary of the polar vortex, in winter, the stratospheric polar night jet exists.
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The outer boundary houses range from 2,722.5 sq. feet (10-marlas) up to 10,890 sq. feet (40 marlas).
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The original feature appears to have had open launds, delineated by sycamore and beech planting on the outer boundary and possibly the aforementioned holly planting in the interior.
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overstep a boundary
What they did, we are told by every military expert, overstepped the boundary.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems some forces and councils are overstepping the boundary of their powers.
The Sun
What they do oversteps the boundary; indeed, the very idea that armed conflict can be waged, daily, within parameters of acceptability, oversteps all boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
If you find any of these overstepping their boundaries, now's the time to get them out too.
Times, Sunday Times
I don't want to overstep the boundaries with the family, but they can't cope and it's a massive drain on all our lives.
Times, Sunday Times
parish boundary
The coins required to purchase these items were left in a hollow stone at the parish boundary between the two villages.
Times,Sunday Times
You might move across a parish boundary and discover you are expected to follow a completely different system of worship.
Times, Sunday Times
The bike had destroyed the parish boundary and its old demands.
The Times Literary Supplement
Despite that, the parish boundary has stood ever since.
The Times Literary Supplement
Curiously, the parish boundary runs along both these roads meaning the majority of the houses in the parish are at its very edge.
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park boundary
For four days, our group of five birdwatchers had the 108 sq mile reserve to ourselves, starting each dawn from a tented camp bordering the park boundary.
Times, Sunday Times
Limited development has occurred below the park boundary.
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To many's dismay, areas outside the current park boundary have been developed privately.
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Meanwhile, within the park boundary other volcanic events were taking place.
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It goes through tall forest past power lines and eastwards, ceasing at the park boundary.
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physical boundary
We grow up with a strong sense of the physical boundary that contains us.
Times, Sunday Times
Contiguous properties are encircled with a congregation's physical boundary.
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Most violations occur due to the absence of a physical boundary and lack of navigational tools for small fishermen.
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The absence of a physical boundary and lack of proper demarcation leaves small fishing boats and trawlers susceptible to illegally crossing territorial waters.
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A router constitutes the logical or physical boundary between the subnets.
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political boundary
The river came to be the political boundary between the unsettled lands of the two counties.
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All boundaries either follow a political boundary (country boundary, province boundary, etc.), or coast lines.
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Migration refers to the movement of persons from a locality of origin to a destination place across some pre-defined, political boundary.
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This shows that when one limits their scope to the population living within a given political boundary, particular human populations do not always grow to match the available food supply.
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The lessons learnt over the next few months will not necessarily get applied by the electorate along convenient party political boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
professional boundary
For good reasons, strict legal and professional boundaries separate these parts of our system.
Times, Sunday Times
Then, after a weekend in which some critical professional boundaries were crossed, he gave me no choice but to move on.
Times, Sunday Times
I was reminded that professional boundaries can be beneficial.
Christianity Today
In office, it found the various workforces tenacious in defence of their professional boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
However, there are several barriers facing those who attempt to institute knowledge management programmes; including those created by organisational boundaries and professional boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times
property boundary
The combined ground area of the garage and other buildings within the property boundary (apart from the house) must not cover more than half the total area.
Times, Sunday Times
Homes usually have a setback from the property boundary, so that they can not be placed close together.
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The ford has had to be maintained as a property boundary feature, despite several cars a year being washed away.
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Building work in 2010 uncovered a complete 1,700-year-old human skeleton, as well as pottery, rubbish pits and property boundary ditches.
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They cleared their fields of the boulders with horses and built stone walls along the edges of their fields, frequently at the property boundary.
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push a boundary
Instead, it would push the boundary with innovations.
Times, Sunday Times
Do you look for parts that push that boundary?
canada.com
Many manufacturers push this boundary to the limit and sometimes into the grey area of legal definitions beyond.
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The chandeliers, especially, push the boundaries of what we might consider hanging from our ceilings.
Times, Sunday Times
It's going to be hard for her to push the boundaries too much.
Times, Sunday Times
redraw a boundary
He believes that we need to redraw the boundaries between social care and healthcare to focus on preventive care.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, neither party has the vocabulary to redraw the boundaries of home life.
Times, Sunday Times
There may be ways to interrupt its activity, but it's worth thinking carefully about where we 'put' it, as we redraw the boundaries of our world, or anyone else's.
Times, Sunday Times
respect a boundary
Those who don't respect the boundaries between the two will get punished by the fates.
Times, Sunday Times
We need to discover and respect boundaries within relationships.
Times, Sunday Times
Have a word with your colleague, emphasising that he needs to respect your boundaries both at work and play.
Times, Sunday Times
He was always conscious of the need for civil servants to see the world through ministers' eyes while at the same time respecting the boundaries between politicians and civil servants.
Times, Sunday Times
Respect her boundaries and just be colleagues.
The Sun
rigid boundary
You're not just being a rigid boundary person.
Christianity Today
Again, these dates are meant as a tool to help understand the types of procedure in use, not as a rigid boundary where one system stopped and another began.
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Lustre varies over a wide continuum, and so there are no rigid boundaries between the different types of lustre.
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Her proteiform body of work lies on a contrasted dialog between the ever-changing psychological identity and the rigid boundaries of physical identification.
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These commonly used descriptive terms do not necessarily use the official or current names for features; and often these concepts of places don't have clear, rigid boundaries.
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set a boundary
Eventually, she set her boundary by writing a letter of protest to her boss and making a speech, which we had to rehearse.
Christianity Today
Science seems to set the boundary at about 30 minutes, after which 'sleep inertia' becomes a factor.
Times, Sunday Times
Finally, set some boundaries around your son's more regressed and challenging behaviours - this will be containing for him.
Times, Sunday Times
Talk to him about setting some boundaries for both of you.
The Sun
If he or she has other good qualities, set your boundaries.
The Sun
southern boundary
Then, off west, brushing the southern boundary of a national park; then northwest; then north, deep into the park.
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There are many islands along its southern boundary.
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As the road continues eastward through the park, it becomes the southern boundary before interchanging with.
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A dirt road, lined by cactuses and olive and almond trees, passes by the southern boundary of the fence.
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The southern boundaries of all four farms collectively provide the district's southern boundary.
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straddle a boundary
Walls that straddle a boundary may be party walls.
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Now, leading galleries and museums are scrambling to put on events that straddle the boundaries between culture, music, eating and drinking.
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It once straddled the boundary of two counties.
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Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by ten constituencies, two of which straddled the boundaries of other council areas.
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Until then, its houses and farms straddled the boundary.
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stretch a boundary
Cable has been accused of stretching the boundaries of acceptability, though.
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In its inability to examine itself openly, the system allows its rulers to continually stretch the boundaries of suppression.
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They were followed by a long line of would-be cutting-edge artists only too willing to court controversy by stretching the boundaries of taste.
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Yet, away from the puritanical glare of the public, athletes will generally stretch the boundaries as far as they can.
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Here was a series that was entirely comfortable in its own skin, stretching the boundaries of gangland drama beyond the usual masculine thuggery.
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strict boundary
Others stress the need to mark a strict boundary between work and home, maybe by having a door between home and office.
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The strict boundaries led to him becoming known as one of the greatest novelists in history.
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To stop work taking over your day, set strict boundaries around your hours.
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I didn't mind these strict boundaries because they were communicated upfront, and everyone knew about them.
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However, he did not always paint within strict boundaries.
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territorial boundary
Once the corners are occupied, the next most valuable points are along the side, aiming to use the edge as a territorial boundary.
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For them, an interest in territorial boundaries wasn't a mild eccentricity but an absolute necessity.
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But this monster knows no territorial boundaries.
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In a first, the two leaders submitted maps this month detailing their proposals for the territorial boundaries of the two envisaged federal zones.
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Each side had submitted a map the night before outlining proposals for the territorial boundaries of each zone.
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test a boundary
It was important in testing the boundaries of censorship and public taste.
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They are testing the boundaries of other people's tolerance by asking grown-ups just how far they can go and still be loved.
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They often test their boundaries in every sense.
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The tag represented licence to test the boundaries of his chosen medium.
The Times Literary Supplement
Then you'll be able to relax and enjoy this relationship without endlessly testing the boundaries.
The Sun
traditional boundary
He was able to work across and beyond traditional boundaries with chemists, engineers and physicists.
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How to use natural relationships to cross traditional boundaries in evangelism.
Christianity Today
Barbecue duck cheung fun was an acceptable nudge at the traditional boundaries, but too greasy.
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Greater collaboration will be required and that will mean an end to traditional boundaries between organisations, which, says the report, face 'wholesale transformation'.
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All the traditional boundaries of art have been redrawn to let in new media, old junk and amateur fancies.
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transcend a boundary
The essays are divided into three groups, concerned, respectively, with defending, contesting and eventually transcending the boundaries of identity.
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Distributive justice again transcends the boundaries of economics.
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The selection of stories includes only those that center on outstanding personalities who transcend the boundaries of time and age.
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transgress a boundary
The move will also be welcomed by those who feel the stable's acquisitive habits had transgressed the boundaries of sport.
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The project was transgressing the boundaries of exhibition, publication and lectures in order to stimulate dialogues between art and science.
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It also drew fierce criticism from those who felt it transgressed the boundaries of propriety.
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At the same time he favored giving the central government ministries stronger control over these firms, to assure that their decisions did not transgress the boundaries of the plan.
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western boundary
Beyond the western boundary of the city are the hunting baths, still half buried.
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The appeal was dismissed in relation to the seaward western boundary of the area but allowed in relation to the attached sandbanks.
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This ancient up-and-over, cross-island path took us into the green heart of the island; it also forms the western boundary of a 180-acre nature reserve.
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Our largely literary treasure hunt commences adjacent to a lake on the western boundary of a town.
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However, long, straight edges are an exception, not a necessary property of western boundary currents.
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Translations:
Chinese: 边界
Japanese: 境界
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