different between marge vs border

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??(r)d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin. Doublet of margin and margo.

Noun

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) margin; edge; verge.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     […] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

     Where thou thyself dost air [...]

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     the long curved crest

     Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.

Etymology 2

Shortened from the word margarine.

Noun

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (colloquial, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) margarine.

Anagrams

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, regma

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan marge), from Latin marg?, marginem (compare French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?-, mar?-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ma?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mar.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?.d??e/

Noun

marge m (plural marges)

1. margin, edge
2. (economics) margin

Related terms

• marginar

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

marge f or m (plural marges, diminutive margetje n)

1. margin

Synonyms

• kantlijn

Anagrams

• mager

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin marg?, marginem, from Proto-Indo-European *mer?-, mar?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Noun

marge f (plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)

Derived terms

• en marge de
• marge de manœuvre
• marger

Further reading

• “marge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• germa

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse margir.

Adjective

marge pl (comparative flair)

1. Many.

Derived terms

• margelónnom
• margföllu
• margehanda

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)

1. 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

2. A decorative strip around the edge of something.

3. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
4. 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.

5. (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.
6. (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)

1. (transitive) To put a border on something.
2. (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
3. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.

   Denmark borders Germany to the south.

4. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).

   Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

5. (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.

Derived terms

• border on
• cross-border

Translations

Anagrams

• roberd

French

Etymology

From bord +? -er, of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.de/

Verb

border

1. to border (add a border to)
2. to border (share a border with)
3. 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

1. Alternative form of bourdour

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• bord

Noun

border n

1. indefinite plural of bord

Etymology 2

Noun

border m

1. indefinite plural of bord