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Meaning of border
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border
n  1: The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
 garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
 2: A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of
 a country; a frontier district.
 3: A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of
 something, as an ornament or finish.
 4: A narrow flower bed.
 5: To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
 adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
 6: To approach; to come near to; to verge.
 7: To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for
 ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
 8: 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.
 9: To confine within bounds; to limit.