border: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
1 line that divides two countries
ADJECTIVE
▪ open
▪ closed
▪ porous
▪ common
▪ Brazil has a common border with most South American countries.
▪ disputed
▪ northern, southern, etc.
▪ international, national
VERB + BORDER
▪ arrive at, reach, stop at
▪ cross, drive across, drive over, slip across, slip over
▪ They slipped across the border at nightfall.
▪ escape across, escape over, flee across, flee over
▪ form, mark
▪ A river forms the border.
▪ draw, draw up, establish, fix
▪ guard, patrol
▪ open
▪ close, seal
▪ secure
▪ share
▪ Ethiopia shares its longest border with Somalia.
BORDER + NOUN
▪ crossing, post
▪ region, town
▪ control, guard, troops
▪ clash, dispute, war
▪ raid
▪ clash, incident, skirmish
PREPOSITION
▪ across a/the border, over a/the border
▪ to smuggle goods across the border
▪ along a/the border
▪ There has been fighting along the border.
▪ at a/the border, on a/the border
▪ We were stopped on the border.
▪ on the border of
▪ a farm on the border of Cumbria and Yorkshire
▪ up to the border
▪ He drove us right up to the Russian border.
▪ border between, border of
▪ the border between Austria and Switzerland
▪ border with
PHRASES
▪ north of the border, south of the border
▪ on both sides of the border, on one side of the border
▪ There has been fighting on both sides of the border.
2 decorative band/strip around the edge of sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ wide
▪ narrow
▪ decorative
VERB + BORDER
▪ have
▪ The tablecloth has a narrow lace border.
▪ draw
PREPOSITION
▪ with a/the border
▪ a white handkerchief with a blue border
▪ border around, border round (esp.BrE)
▪ She drew a decorative border around the picture.
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
Border is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑country
Border is used with these nouns as the object: ↑edge