The border

Definition

border /'bↄ:dǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [C] နယ္နိမိတ္။ နယ္စပ္ေဒသ။ 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] (ဝိေသသအားျဖင့္ ရည္ၫႊန္း ေသာ) နယ္နိမိတ္ (အထူးသျဖင့္) အဂၤလန္ႏွင့္ စေကာ့တလန္ ၾကား၊ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုႏွင့္ မကၠဆီကိုႏိုင္ငံၾကား နယ္နိမိတ္။ ၂။ [C] အလွဆင္ထားသည့္ အနားသတ္၊ အကြပ္။ the border of a picture/photograph ❍ a handkerchief/table-cloth with an embroidered border. ၃။ [C] (လမ္းေဘးတစ္ေလွ်ာက္၊ ျမက္ခင္း စသည္တို႔တြင္) အနားသတ္ စိုက္ခင္း၊ ပန္းခင္း။ a her baceous border ❍ a border of tulips. ❍ HOUSE v ၁။ နယ္သတ္သည္။ အစြန္းနယ္နိမိတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ေက်ာခိုင္းနံစပ္ တည္သည္။ Our garden is bordered on one side by a stream. ❍ How many countries border Switzerland? ၂။ (esp passive) ~ sth (with sth) အနားသတ္ထားသည္။ ကြပ္ထားသည္။ a handkerchief bordered with lace. ၃။ ~ on sth (က) ကပ္လ်က္တည္သည္။ အျခားမဲ့တည္သည္။ The new housing estate borders on the motorway. (ခ) ျဖစ္လုနီးပါး။ သလို။ His reply to the teacher was bordering on rudeness. ❍ Our task borders on the impossible. ❏ borderer n နယ္စပ္ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အဂၤလန္ႏွင့္ စေကာ့တလန္) ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံစပ္ၾကားတြင္ ေနထိုင္သူ။

Examples

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