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Boundary vs Fencing - What's the difference?

boundary | fencing |

As nouns the difference between boundary and fencing

is that boundary is the dividing line or location between two areas while fencing is the art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century european dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing).

As a verb fencing is

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boundary

English

Noun

(boundaries)
  • The dividing line or location between two areas.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
  • (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.
  • (topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
  • Derived terms

    * boundary umpire * boundary rider

    See also

    * border * confine * frontier * fladry

    fencing

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
  • * 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
  • The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
  • Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

    Derived terms

    * geofencing

    See also

    * (wikipedia)