Border vs Ridge - What's the difference?
border | ridge |
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.
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(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
(lb) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
:(Hudibras)
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
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, chapter=26, title= (lb) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
:(Stocqueler)
A chain of mountains.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:the frozen ridges of the Alps
A chain of hills.
A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
(lb) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
To form into a ridge
To extend in ridges
As a noun border
is .As a proper noun ridge is
after a natural landscape feature.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 ----ridge
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(wikipedia ridge) (en noun)The Dust of Conflict, passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.}}
