Thesaurus: border

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1. n. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
2. n. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
3. n. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4. n. A narrow flower bed.
5. v. i. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
6. v. i. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
7. v. t. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
8. v. t. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
9. v. t. To confine within bounds; to limit.
10. n. a line that indicates a boundary
11. n. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
12. n. the boundary of a surface