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# border

«border» in Mova's school dictionary: **the edge of something, like a strip around a picture or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (border, borders); verb (border, borders, bordered, bordering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A border is the edge of something, like a strip around a picture or a cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#m1)

2) A border is the line between two countries, states or places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#m2)

3) A border in a garden is a long strip of flowers along an edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#m3)

4) To border is to be next to: «Canada borders the USA». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

the edge of a shape: its length is the perimeter; in geography, borders between countries on maps; phrases «cross the border», «border around», «bordering on»

### examples

- She puts a border around a poster 3 ft by 2 ft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x1)
- How much ribbon for the border? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x2)
- The border has 40 tiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x3)
- A flower border runs along the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x4)
- We crossed the border into Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x5)
- Draw a border around your picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x6)
- Mexico borders the United States. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x7)
- The page has a gold border. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x8)
- Ireland has a border with Northern Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x9)
- Passports are checked at the border. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x10)
- The elder brother rode straight on till he reached the borders of a strange kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/#x11)

### note

Border around a shape means perimeter (add the sides). Trap: do not multiply length × width; that is the area inside. Tiles at the corners of a square border are easy to count twice.

### In the corpora

- [A Border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/8/)
- [Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/16/)
- [A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/12/)
- [That is why some borders are ruler-straight lines across deserts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/2/)
- [When British India became independent in 1947, it was split into India and Pakistan, with a border drawn in a few weeks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «border» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/border/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.