different between outskirts vs boundary
outskirts
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?a?tsk?ts/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?a?tsk??ts/
- Hyphenation: out?skirts
Etymology 1
From out- +? skirt.
Noun
outskirts pl (plural only)
- The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
- He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
outskirts
- plural of outskirt
Verb
outskirts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskirt
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boundary
English
Etymology
bound +? -ary, Old French, from Latin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ba?nd?i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ba?nd??i/
- Rhymes: -a?nd?i
Noun
boundary (plural boundaries)
- The dividing line or location between two areas.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (figuratively, often in the plural) The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
- (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
- (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
- (topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set , not belonging to the interior of that set.
Derived terms
- Boundary County
- boundary rider
- boundary umpire
Related terms
- bound
Translations
See also
- border
- confine
- frontier
- fladry
Further reading
- boundary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- boundary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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