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Brow vs Border - What's the difference?

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Brow is a synonym of border.


As nouns the difference between brow and border

is that brow is the ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow () while border is .

As a verb brow

is to bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

brow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow ().
  • * Churchill
    • And his arched brow , pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
  • The first tine of an antler's beam.
  • The forehead ().
  • * Shakespeare
    • Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow .}}
  • The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
    • the brow of a precipice
  • (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  • (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
  • An eyebrow.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis not your inky brows , your black silk hair.

    Derived terms

    * beetle-browed * eyebrow

    Synonyms

    * forehead

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
  • * Milton
    • Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

    border

    English

    (wikipedia border)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outer edge of something.
    • the borders of the garden
  • * Bentham
    • upon the borders of these solitudes
  • * Barrow
    • in the borders of death
  • 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, 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.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacing

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a border on something.
  • To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
    • Denmark borders Germany to the south.
  • To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
    • Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
  • To approach; to come near to; to verge.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
    • Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

    Derived terms

    * border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----