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单词 border
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bordernoun [ C ]

uk/ˈbɔː.dər/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/

border noun [ C ] (DIVISION)

B1 the line that divides one country from another:

Were you stopped at the border?
The train crosses the border between France and Spain.
The two countries have had frequent border disputes.

More examples

  • Thousands of troops have massed along the border in preparation for an invasion.
  • Strasbourg is on the border of France and Germany.
  • Illegal immigrants are sent back across the border if they are caught.
  • The border guards stopped me and asked to see my papers.
  • Checkpoint Charlie used to be the most famous border crossing between East and West Berlin.

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Territorial boundaries

  • bound
  • boundary
  • checkpoint
  • frontier
  • no-man's-land
  • state line
  • the Iron Curtain
  • the Mason-Dixon Line

border noun [ C ] (EDGE)

a strip that goes around or along the edge of something, often as decoration:

The dress was white with a delicate lace border.
a picture with a decorative/plain border

a narrow strip of ground around a garden, usually planted with flowers:

to weed/plant the borders

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Edges & extremities of objects

  • apex
  • apices
  • bevel
  • bottom
  • brim
  • brink
  • crest
  • edge
  • fringe
  • front
  • head
  • palm-fringed
  • peripheral
  • periphery
  • rim
  • skirt
  • surmount
  • tip
  • topmost
  • vertex

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Parts of gardens

borderverb

uk/ˈbɔː.dər/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/

border verb (FORM EDGE)

[ T usually passive ] to form a line around the edge of something:

The fields are bordered by tall trees.

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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing

  • beleaguer
  • beleaguered
  • beset
  • box sb/sth in
  • circumscribe
  • dunk
  • fence sth off
  • flood
  • gather
  • gift-wrap
  • gift-wrapped
  • girdle
  • steep
  • surround
  • swallow
  • wound 1
  • wrap
  • wrap (sb) up
  • wrap sth around sb/sth
  • wrapped

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border verb (BE NEXT TO)

[ T ] to be next to and have a border with another country:

Swaziland borders South Africa and Mozambique.

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Territorial boundaries

  • bound
  • boundary
  • checkpoint
  • frontier
  • no-man's-land
  • state line
  • the Iron Curtain
  • the Mason-Dixon Line
bordering
adjective uk/ˈbɔː.də.rɪŋ/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ.ɪŋ/

bordering countries/counties

Phrasal verb(s)

border on sth
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