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border
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
- Homophone: boarder (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
border (countable and uncountable, plural borders)
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- 1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Reptentance (sermon)
- in the borders of death
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
- 23 June 2018, Mattha Busb, The Independent, Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre
- A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks until she was released.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- (Britain, uncountable) border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered)
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
- Wit which borders upon profaneness […] deserves to be branded as folly.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
Derived terms
- border on
- cross-border
Translations
Anagrams
- roberd
French
Etymology
From bord +? -er, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??.de/
Verb
border
- to border (add a border to)
- to border (share a border with)
- to tuck in
Conjugation
Derived terms
- avoir le cul bordé de nouilles
Further reading
- “border” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- broder, rebord
Middle English
Noun
border
- Alternative form of bourdour
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- bord
Noun
border n
- indefinite plural of bord
Etymology 2
Noun
border m
- indefinite plural of bord
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tabulator
English
Etymology
tabulate +? -or
Noun
tabulator (plural tabulators)
- A person who counts or tabulates things.
- The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
- (computing) A tab character.
- 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C# (page 110)
- You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.
- 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C# (page 110)
- (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French tabulateur
Noun
tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)
- tabulator
Declension
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