Border vs Sinuate - What's the difference?
border | sinuate |
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
To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out
sinuous
Having wavy indentation on its border or edge.
(mycology, of gills) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower and then curving back towards the stem before reaching the attachment point.
As verbs the difference between border and sinuate
is that border is to put a border on something while sinuate is to advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out.As a noun border
is the outer edge of something.As an adjective sinuate is
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English
(wikipedia border)Noun
(en noun)- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- in the borders of death
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- 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 ----sinuate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- A road that sinuates through the valley.
Adjective
(en adjective)- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is sinuate .