| border | | |
| n. (location) | 1. border, borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete | a line that indicates a boundary. |
| ~ boundary, bounds, bound | the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something. |
| ~ circumference, circuit | the boundary line encompassing an area or object.; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe" |
| ~ fence line | a boundary line created by a fence. |
| ~ green line | the border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independence. |
| ~ line of control | a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan. |
| ~ property line | the boundary line between two pieces of property. |
| ~ state boundary, state line | the boundary between two states. |
| n. (shape) | 2. border, margin, perimeter | the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary. |
| ~ lip | either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell. |
| ~ bound, boundary, edge | a line determining the limits of an area. |
| n. (location) | 3. border, edge | the boundary of a surface. |
| ~ boundary, bounds, bound | the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something. |
| ~ brink | the edge of a steep place. |
| ~ limb | (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. border, molding, moulding | a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge. |
| ~ edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something.; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge" |
| ~ picture frame | a framework in which a picture is mounted. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. border | a strip forming the outer edge of something.; "the rug had a wide blue border" |
| ~ edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something.; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge" |
| ~ edging | border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug). |
| ~ selvage, selvedge | border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet. |
| ~ verge | a grass border along a road. |
| v. (contact) | 6. border, environ, ring, skirt, surround | extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.; "The forest surrounds my property" |
| ~ adjoin, contact, touch, meet | be in direct physical contact with; make contact.; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" |
| ~ fringe | decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe.; "fur fringed the hem of the dress" |
| ~ gird, girdle | put a girdle on or around.; "gird your loins" |
| ~ cloister | surround with a cloister.; "cloister the garden" |
| ~ inclose, shut in, close in, enclose | surround completely.; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" |
| ~ hem in | surround in a restrictive manner.; "The building was hemmed in by flowers" |
| ~ cloister | surround with a cloister, as of a garden. |
| v. (stative) | 7. border, bound | form the boundary of; be contiguous to. |
| ~ skirt | form the edge of. |
| ~ verge | border on; come close to.; "His behavior verges on the criminal" |
| ~ shore | serve as a shore to.; "The river was shored by trees" |
| ~ hold in, enclose, confine | close in.; "darkness enclosed him" |
| v. (contact) | 8. border, frame, frame in | enclose in or as if in a frame.; "frame a picture" |
| ~ inclose, shut in, close in, enclose | surround completely.; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" |
| v. (possession) | 9. border, edge | provide with a border or edge.; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (contact) | 10. abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march | lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" |
| ~ adjoin, contact, touch, meet | be in direct physical contact with; make contact.; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" |
| ~ neighbor, neighbour | be located near or adjacent to.; "Pakistan neighbors India" |
| margin | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. margin | an amount beyond the minimum necessary.; "the margin of victory" |
| ~ amount | the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion.; "an adequate amount of food for four people" |
| ~ margin of error, margin of safety, safety margin | the margin required in order to insure safety.; "in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress" |
| ~ narrow margin, slimness, narrowness | a small margin.; "the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory"; "the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote" |
| n. (possession) | 2. margin, security deposit | the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities. |
| ~ down payment, deposit | a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later. |
| n. (possession) | 3. gross profit, gross profit margin, margin | (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold. |
| ~ corporate finance | the financial activities of corporation. |
| ~ earnings, net income, net profit, profit, profits, lucre, net | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). |
| n. (communication) | 4. margin | the blank space that surrounds the text on a page.; "he jotted a note in the margin" |
| ~ page | one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains. |
| ~ blank space, space, place | a blank area.; "write your name in the space provided" |
| n. (attribute) | 5. allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance | a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. |
| ~ discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance | a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions.; "a growing divergence of opinion" |
| side | | |
| n. (location) | 1. side | a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location.; "they always sat on the right side of the church"; "he never left my side" |
| ~ region, part | the extended spatial location of something.; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" |
| ~ bedside | space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person).; "the doctor stood at her bedside" |
| ~ blind side | the side on which your vision is limited or obstructed. |
| ~ dockside | the region adjacent to a boat dock. |
| ~ east side | the side that is on the east. |
| ~ hand | a position given by its location to the side of an object.; "objections were voiced on every hand" |
| ~ north side | the side that is on the north. |
| ~ shipside | the part of a wharf that is next to a ship. |
| ~ south side | the side that is on the south. |
| ~ west side | the side that is on the west. |
| n. (group) | 2. side | one of two or more contesting groups.; "the Confederate side was prepared to attack" |
| ~ game | a contest with rules to determine a winner.; "you need four people to play this game" |
| ~ war, warfare | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy.; "thousands of people were killed in the war" |
| ~ political science, politics, government | the study of government of states and other political units. |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| n. (body) | 3. side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ human, human being, homo, man | any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ torso, trunk, body | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| n. (location) | 4. face, side | a surface forming part of the outside of an object.; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf" |
| ~ beam-ends | (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel.; "on her beam-ends" |
| ~ bottom, underside, undersurface | the lower side of anything. |
| ~ forepart, front, front end | the side that is forward or prominent. |
| ~ lee side, leeward, lee | the side of something that is sheltered from the wind. |
| ~ windward | the side of something that is toward the wind. |
| ~ back end, backside, rear | the side of an object that is opposite its front.; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" |
| ~ surface | the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object.; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface" |
| ~ top side, upper side, upside, top | the highest or uppermost side of anything.; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. side | an extended outer surface of an object.; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house" |
| ~ beam | the broad side of a ship.; "they sighted land on the port beam" |
| ~ broadside | the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern.; "the ship was broadside to the dock" |
| ~ edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object.; "he rounded the edges of the box" |
| ~ front | the side that is seen or that goes first. |
| ~ larboard, port | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose. |
| ~ nearside | the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb. |
| ~ obverse | the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design. |
| ~ back, rear | the side that goes last or is not normally seen.; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" |
| ~ verso, reverse | the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design. |
| ~ sidewall | the side of an automobile tire.; "the car had white sidewalls" |
| ~ soffit | the underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.). |
| ~ starboard | the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose. |
| ~ surface | the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary.; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface" |
| ~ upper surface | the side that is uppermost. |
| n. (cognition) | 6. side | an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect).; "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side" |
| ~ aspect, facet | a distinct feature or element in a problem.; "he studied every facet of the question" |
| ~ downside | a negative aspect of something that is generally positive.; "there is a downside even to motherhood" |
| ~ hand | one of two sides of an issue.; "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..." |
| n. (location) | 7. side | a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure.; "the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side" |
| ~ line | a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent. |
| n. (group) | 8. side | a family line of descent.; "he gets his brains from his father's side" |
| ~ ancestry, blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, line of descent, stemma, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| n. (food) | 9. side, side of meat | a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food. |
| ~ cut of meat, cut | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. |
| ~ side of beef | dressed half of a beef carcass. |
| ~ side of pork | dressed half of a hog carcass. |
| n. (communication) | 10. position, side | an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute.; "there are two sides to every question" |
| ~ opinion, view | a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page" |
| n. (object) | 11. incline, side, slope | an elevated geological formation.; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" |
| ~ acclivity, ascent, climb, upgrade, raise, rise | an upward slope or grade (as in a road).; "the car couldn't make it up the rise" |
| ~ bank | sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water).; "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents" |
| ~ camber, cant, bank | a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force. |
| ~ canyonside | the steeply sloping side of a canyon. |
| ~ coast | a slope down which sleds may coast.; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course" |
| ~ declivity, downslope, declination, declension, decline, fall, descent | a downward slope or bend. |
| ~ escarpment, scarp | a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion. |
| ~ geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
| ~ hillside | the side or slope of a hill. |
| ~ mountainside, versant | the side or slope of a mountain.; "conifer forests cover the eastern versant" |
| ~ natural elevation, elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation. |
| ~ piedmont | a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land. |
| ~ ski slope | a snow-covered slope for skiing. |
| n. (event) | 12. english, side | (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist. |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ spin | a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile). |
| v. (competition) | 13. side | take sides for or against.; "Who are you widing with?"; "I'm siding against the current candidate" |
| ~ array, align | align oneself with a group or a way of thinking. |
| ~ root for, pull | take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for.; "We all rooted for the home team"; "I'm pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title?" |
| adj. | 14. side | located on a side.; "side fences"; "the side porch" |
| ~ broadside | toward a full side.; "a broadside attack" |
| ~ lateral, sidelong | situated at or extending to the side.; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs" |
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