Dictionary Entry
border
border is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- 2noun
A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
- 3noun
A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
- 4noun
A narrow flower bed.
- 5intransitive verb
To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- 6intransitive verb
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- 7transitive verb
To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9transitive verb
To confine within bounds; to limit.
- 10noun
a strip forming the outer edge of something
"the rug had a wide blue border"
- 11noun
a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- 12noun
a line that indicates a boundary
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- 13noun
the boundary of a surface
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- 14noun
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- 15verb
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
"Canada adjoins the U.S."
"England marches with Scotland"
- 16verb
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
"The forest surrounds my property"
- 17verb
enclose in or as if in a frame
"frame a picture"
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- 18verb
provide with a border or edge
"edge the tablecloth with embroidery"
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- 19verb
form the boundary of; be contiguous to
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