Synonyms of the word

border

• n. The outer edge of something.
• n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
• n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
• n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
• n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
• v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
• v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
• v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

abut

• v. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project;…
• v. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to; to support by an abutment.
• v. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

adjoin

• v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…

borderline

• adj. nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
• adj. Showing bad taste.
• adj. Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
• n. A boundary or accepted division; a border.
• n. An individual who has borderline personality disorder.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

• n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
• n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
• n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

bounds

• n. plural of bound.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound.

butt

• n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
• n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
• n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
• n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
• v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
• v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
• n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
• n. A thrust in fencing.
• n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
• n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
• n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

delimitation

• n. The act of delimiting something.
• n. A limit or boundary.

edge

• n. The boundary line of a surface.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
• n. An advantage.
• n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
• n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
• n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
• v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

enclose

• v. (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
• v. (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
• v. (intransitive) To hold or contain.

frame

• v. (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
• v. (transitive) To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent…
• v. (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan;…
• v. (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
• v. (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
• v. (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
• v. (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
• v. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go.
• v. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.
• n. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
• n. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
• n. The structure of a person's body.
• n. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
• n. A piece of photographic film containing an image.
• n. A context for understanding or interpretation.
• n. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win)…
• n. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
• n. (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but…
• n. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although…
• n. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
• n. (film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of…
• n. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
• n. (baseball, slang) An inning.
• n. (engineering, dated, chiefly Britain) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
• n. (dated) frame of mind; disposition.
• n. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
• n. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game.
• n. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
• n. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

inclose

• v. (now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose.

march

• n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
• n. A political rally or parade.
• n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
• n. Steady forward movement or progression.
• n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
• v. To go to war; to make military advances.
• n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
• n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
• n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
• v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
• n. (obsolete) Smallage.

margin

• n. (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
• n. The edge or border of any flat surface.
• n. (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
• n. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
• n. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
• n. (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
• n. (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into…
• v. To add a margin to.

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

mete

• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
• v. (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc…
• n. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

molding

• n. The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
• n. Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
• n. (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means…
• n. (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
• n. (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
• n. (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
• n. (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

moulding

• n. (Britain) Alternative spelling of molding.

perimeter

• n. (mathematics) The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
• n. (mathematics) The length of such a boundary.
• n. The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference.
• n. A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
• n. An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

skirt

• n. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower…
• n. The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
• n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• n. A petticoat.
• n. (pejorative, slang) A woman.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
• v. To be on or form the border of.
• v. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
• v. To cover with a skirt; to surround.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.