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BORDERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term
Example:
black-bordered handkerchief
Classified under:
Similar:
boxed (enclosed in or set off by a border or box)
deckle-edged; deckled; featheredged (having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade)
edged (having a specified kind of border or edge)
fringed (surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination)
lined (bordered by a line of things)
sawtoothed-edged ((of leaves) having an edged resembling a sawtooth)
seagirt (surrounded or enclosed by the sea)
spiny-edged (having a spiny border)
white-edged (having a white border)
Also:
finite (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)
Antonym:
unbordered (having no border)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb border
Context examples:
For example, orchards surrounded by crop fields or other agricultural landscapes had 55 percent fewer bee species than orchards bordered by natural habitat areas (which provide the insects with shelter, nesting sites and additional sources of pollen and nectar).
(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and the hills.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This long meadow bordered a lane, which their footpath, at the end of it was to cross, and when the party had all reached the gate of exit, the carriage advancing in the same direction, which had been some time heard, was just coming up, and proved to be Admiral Croft's gig.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene; it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Farther on he knew he would come to where dead spruce and fir, very small and weazened, bordered the shore of a little lake, the titchin-nichilie, in the tongue of the country, the land of little sticks.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This man, however, was leaning against the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He sprang out as he spoke, and with one leg and a staff he hopped swiftly up the path, and under the laurel-bordered motto, and so over his own threshold for the first time for five years.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Emma could not like what bordered on a reflection on Mr. Weston, and had half a mind to take it up; but she struggled, and let it pass. She would keep the peace if possible; and there was something honourable and valuable in the strong domestic habits, the all-sufficiency of home to himself, whence resulted her brother's disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse, and those to whom it was important.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But of all the views which his garden, or which the country or kingdom could boast, none were to be compared with the prospect of Rosings, afforded by an opening in the trees that bordered the park nearly opposite the front of his house.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
