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boarder, border
boarder (BOR dur, BOR duhr) (noun)
1. A lodger or resident who receives regular meals as part of the rent or payment for a room: The ranch has more than one summer boarder who likes to holiday in the country.
2. A lodger who receives meals regularly at a fixed price: To earn extra money, they took in a boarder.
2. A lodger who receives meals regularly at a fixed price: To earn extra money, they took in a boarder.
border (BOR dur, BOR duhr) (noun)
1. An edge, a rim, a perimeter: Summer cottages were built all around the border of the lake.
2. A frontier, a boundary: Do you need a passport to cross the Canadian border?
3. To be next to, to adjoin: California has a border with the Pacific Ocean.
4. A trim, a hem: The seamstress sewed a border of flowers on the dress.
2. A frontier, a boundary: Do you need a passport to cross the Canadian border?
3. To be next to, to adjoin: California has a border with the Pacific Ocean.
4. A trim, a hem: The seamstress sewed a border of flowers on the dress.
A renter's boundary, or limitation, in a room and board situation is said to be a boarder border.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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border (BOR dur)
1. An edge, a rim, a periphery, a perimeter, a circumference, an extremity, a verge, a margin, a brim, a brink, a curb, a skirt, a frame, an outskirt, a fringe, a limit: Summer cottages were built all around the border of the lake.
The bedspread had a fringed border. 2. A frontier, a boundary, a line: Do you need a passport to cross the Mexican border?
3. To be next to, to adjoin, to join, to flank, to touch, to neighbor on, to abut, to verge upon: California borders the Pacific Ocean.
4. To edge, to trim, to fringe, to frame, to bind, to rim, to hem: The seamstress bordered the dress with flowers.
The bedspread had a fringed border. 2. A frontier, a boundary, a line: Do you need a passport to cross the Mexican border?
3. To be next to, to adjoin, to join, to flank, to touch, to neighbor on, to abut, to verge upon: California borders the Pacific Ocean.
4. To edge, to trim, to fringe, to frame, to bind, to rim, to hem: The seamstress bordered the dress with flowers.
Units related to:
“border”
(Latin: end, last; limit, boundary, border)
(Latin: on the border (of hell); form of limbus, border, edge)
(Latin: on the border (of hell); form of limbus, border, edge)
(Latin: fringe or a border or edging, fringed; thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube); fiber)
Word Entries containing the term:
“border”
anulus iridis, border of iris, ring of iris
Either of two zones on the anterior surface of the iris, separated by a circular line concentric with the pupillary border.
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