Grassplot and Border
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A line that indicates a boundary.
- synonyms: boundary line, borderline, delimitation, mete
- The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.
- The boundary of a surface.
- synonyms: edge
- A decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge.
- A strip forming the outer edge of something.
- usage: "the rug had a wide blue border"
verb
- Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
- usage: "The forest surrounds my property"
- Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.
- synonyms: bound
- Enclose in or as if in a frame.
- usage: "frame a picture"
- Provide with a border or edge.
- usage: "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"
- synonyms: edge
- Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.
- usage: "Canada adjoins the U. S."; "England marches with Scotland"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- (v.i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- (v.i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
- (v.t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.
- (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
- (v.t.) To be or to have, contiguous to; to touch or be touched, as by a border; to be or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest or is bordered on the north by a forest.
- (n.) A narrow flower bed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary