different between periphery vs borderline

English

Etymology

From Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, from Late Latin peripheria, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), from ????????? (peripher?s, “moving around, round, circular”), from ???????? (periphér?, “I carry around, move around”), from ???? (perí, “around, about, near”) (English peri-) + ???? (phér?, “I bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????f??i/
• Hyphenation US: pe?riph?ery; UK: per?iph?ery

Noun

periphery (plural peripheries)

1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.

   The suburbs are a city's periphery.

2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.

Antonyms

• center

Related terms

• peripherad
• peripheral

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Further reading

• periphery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• periphery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

border +? line

Adjective

borderline (comparative more borderline, superlative most borderline)

1. nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.

2. Showing bad taste.

3. Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.

Derived terms

• borderline case
• borderline personality disorder
• borderliner

Translations

Adverb

borderline (not comparable)

1. nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent

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Noun

borderline (plural borderlines)

1. A boundary or accepted division; a border.

2. An individual who has borderline personality disorder.
   • 1995, Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales (page 80)

Translations

Verb

borderline (third-person singular simple present borderlines, present participle borderlining, simple past and past participle borderlined)

1. (transitive) To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.

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Spanish

Noun

borderline m or f (plural borderlines)

1. (colloquial) Someone with borderline personality disorder