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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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border

/'bↄ:dǝ(r)/

US pronunciation

American sound/'bↄ:dǝ(r)/

border

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

bor - der -> border

Myanmar meaning

[n] [C] နယ်နိမိတ်။ နယ်စပ်ဒေသ။

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border /'bↄ:dǝ(r)/ n

၁။ (က) [C] နယ်နိမိတ်။ နယ်စပ်ဒေသ။ The terrorists escaped across/over the border. ❍ a border town/guard/patrol ❍ border incidents (ie small fights between soldiers of two countries that are next to each other). (ခ) the border [sing] (ဝိသေသအားဖြင့် ရည်ညွှန်း သော) နယ်နိမိတ် (အထူးသဖြင့်) အင်္ဂလန်နှင့် စကော့တလန် ကြား၊ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့် မက္ကဆီကိုနိုင်ငံကြား နယ်နိမိတ်။
၂။ [C] အလှဆင်ထားသည့် အနားသတ်၊ အကွပ်။ the border of a picture/photograph ❍ a handkerchief/table-cloth with an embroidered border.
၃။ [C] (လမ်းဘေးတစ်လျှောက်၊ မြက်ခင်း စသည်တို့တွင်) အနားသတ် စိုက်ခင်း၊ ပန်းခင်း။ a her baceous border ❍ a border of tulips. ❍ HOUSE
v
၁။ နယ်သတ်သည်။ အစွန်းနယ်နိမိတ်ဖြစ်သည်။ ကျောခိုင်းနံစပ် တည်သည်။ Our garden is bordered on one side by a stream. ❍ How many countries border Switzerland?
၂။ (esp passive) ~ sth (with sth) အနားသတ်ထားသည်။ ကွပ်ထားသည်။ a handkerchief bordered with lace.
၃။ ~ on sth (က) ကပ်လျက်တည်သည်။ အခြားမဲ့တည်သည်။ The new housing estate borders on the motorway. (ခ) ဖြစ်လုနီးပါး။ သလို။ His reply to the teacher was bordering on rudeness. ❍ Our task borders on the impossible.
❏ borderer n နယ်စပ် (အထူးသဖြင့် အင်္ဂလန်နှင့် စကော့တလန်) နှစ်နိုင်ငံစပ်ကြားတွင် နေထိုင်သူ။

More examples

[border between] : The border between Hungary and Romania
[border with] : Iraq’s northern border with Turkey
[across/over the border] : Thousands of refugees were fleeing across the border.
[cross the border] : You can’t cross the border without a passport.
[close/seal a border] : Troops have sealed the border in an effort to catch the guerrillas.
[on the border] : A town on the Canadian border
Border guards
The border town of Venlo
Border disputes between neighbouring countries
Cotton sheets with a lace border
Rushes grew on the borders of the lake.

Synonyms

edge, limit, boundary, margin, rim, edging, frame, perimeter, periphery, circumference, abut, adjoin, be adjacent to, be bounded by, be next to, bed, beginning, bind, border on, borderline, bound, boundary; frontier, bounds, brim, brink, circumscribe, communicate, confine, conjoin, contour, decorate, define, delineate, door, encircle, enclose, end, entrance, extremity, flank, flowerbed, fringe, frontier, hem, herbaceous border, join, line, lip, march, marchland, mark off, neighbor, outermost edge, outline, outpost, outskirt, pale, run alongside, selvage, set off, shrub border, side, sideline, skirt, state line, surround, threshold, touch, trim, trimming, verge

Antonyms

back-country, backland, be inside, betwixt and between, center, centermost, free, halfway, heartland, inland, inside, interior, let go, loose, lose, mainland, mezzo, middle, middlemost, midland, midmost, region, release, smack in the middle, straddling the fence, territory, up country, upcountry

Cross references

edge limit boundary margin rim edging frame perimeter periphery circumference abut adjoin be adjacent to be bounded by be next to bed beginning bind border on borderline bound boundary; frontier bounds brim brink circumscribe communicate confine

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