n. 边缘, 边境, 边界, 花坛

vt. 在...上镶边, 接近

vi. 接界, 近似

[计] 边框

[医] 缘

[经] 疆界

Border \Bor"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bordered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Bordering}.]
1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on
Massachusetts.

2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be
branded as folly. --Abp.
Tillotson.


Border \Bor"der\, v. t.
1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for
ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

2. 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.

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the
``hot region.'' --Prescott.

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the
Persian gulf. --Sir W.
Raleigh.

3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]

That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself. --Shak.
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Border \Bor"der\, n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to
border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte
border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board
in sense 8. See {Board}, n., and cf. {Bordure}.]
1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

Upon the borders of these solitudes. --Bentham.

In the borders of death. --Barrow.

2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part
of a country; a frontier district.

3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of
something, as an ornament or finish.

4. A narrow flower bed.

{Border land}, land on the frontiers of two adjoining
countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as,
the border land of science.

{The Border}, {The Borders}, specifically, the frontier
districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent.

{Over the border}, across the boundary line or frontier.

Syn: Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary;
confine.