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marge | border |

As a verb marge

is .

As a noun border is

.

marge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) marge, from (etyl) margo, of (etyl) origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Border; margin; edge; verge.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
    • [...] And thy sea-marge , sterile and rocky-hard,
    Where thou thyself dost air [...]
  • * 1874 ,
    • the long curved crest
    Which swells out two leagues from the river marge .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1907 , title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses) , author=Robert W. Service , chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee) , passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from the word margarine .

    Noun

    marge (uncountable )
  • (colloquial, UK, NZ) margarine.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----