Border vs Coast - What's the difference?
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The outer edge of something.
* Bentham
* Barrow
A decorative strip around the edge of something.
A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
* 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins,
(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
To put a border on something.
To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
* Archbishop Tillotson
(obsolete) The side or edge of something.
The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
(obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
*, II.ii.3:
(obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
To glide along without adding energy.
(nautical) To sail along a coast.
* Arbuthnot
Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.
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(obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
* Hakluyt
(US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
As nouns the difference between border and coast
is that border is while coast is (obsolete) the side or edge of something.As a verb coast is
to glide along without adding energy.border
English
(wikipedia border)Noun
(en noun)- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- in the borders of death
Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
Derived terms
* borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacingVerb
(en verb)- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Derived terms
* border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----coast
English
(wikipedia coast)Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Isaac Newton)
- The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
- Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […].
- P. Crescentius, in his lib.'' 1 ''de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast , good air, wind, etc.
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […].
Hypernyms
* shore, shorelineHyponyms
* oceanfront, seashoreDerived terms
* coast fox * coast guard, coastguard * coast rat * coast-to-coast * coastal * coaster * coastland * coastline * coastward * coastwatcher * coastwiseVerb
(en verb)- When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
- The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
- (Hakluyt)
- Nearchus, not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
- The Indians coasted me along the river.