Boundary
['baʊnd(ə)rɪ] or ['baʊndri]
Definition
(noun.) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
(noun.) a line determining the limits of an area.
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Definition
(n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Limit, border, confine, bourn, bound, verge, term, termination.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BOUND]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In political geography an imaginary line between two nations separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
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Examples
- The city basked under the noon-day sun, and the venerable walls formed its picturesque boundary. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After the breaking out of the war there was a regiment of volunteer soldiers quartered at Fort Gratiot, the reservation extending to the boundary line of our house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thereafter the Pyrenees remained their utmost boundary; they came no further into Western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I found to my delight that I had entered at the lower boundary of the enormous palace grounds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He crossed the road and walked towards the western boundary of the Regent's Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the dreary boundary between life and death, felt not as I did, such deep and bitter agony. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We camped that night at the foot of the hills we had been approaching for two days and which marked the southern boundary of this particular sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There was a lawn, and flower-beds, and at the boundary an iron fence shutting off the little field or park. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As I approached the boundary line Woola ran anxiously before me, and thrust his body against my legs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Emanuel beyond the last boundary of patience; he actually sprang from his estrade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I was admitted within that sacred boundary which divides the intellectual and moral nature of man from that which characterizes animals. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Rome, on the boundary between Latin and Etruscan, was not in a very strong position for defence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The palings of Rosings Park was their boundary on one side. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But however easily we may form these ideas, it is impossible to produce any definition of them, which will fix the precise boundaries betwixt them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That large decayed oak, he said, marks the boundaries over which Front-de-Boeuf claims authority--we are long since far from those of Malvoisin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But in the southeast of this empire, and over the Turkish empire, the boundaries and subjugations of the conquest period still remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The second was the impossible system of boundaries drawn by the diplomatists of Vienna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries; but we saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I shall take the straight road to the river, said Haley, decidedly, after they had come to the boundaries of the estate. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is impossible, therefore, that the character of natural and unnatural can ever, in any sense, mark the boundaries of vice and virtue. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- She had no definite boundaries at all, neither sea nor mountain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was content to keep the Rhine and Danube as its boundaries, and to make no effort to Romanize Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the one hand, science, commerce, and art transcend national boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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