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[ noun ] the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Used in print ("Editorials"...)State_Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary , and driving two blocks into East_Berlin under military escort , will not avail . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The freeway with narrowly spaced interchanges concentrates and mitigates the access problem , but it also acts inevitably as an artificial , isolating boundary . City planners do not always use this boundary as effectively as they might . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Andrei stopped at Litowski_Place and looked_around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings . |
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[ noun ] a line determining the limits of an area
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)After this holocaust , a changing world occupied the minds of men ; a world beset with new boundaries , new treaties and governments , new goals and methods , and the age-old fears of aggression and subjugation - hunger and exposure . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)They never troubled_themselves about us while we were playing , because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Do n't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation . Related terms line periphery margin frontier rim brink thalweg lower_bound upper_bound bound |
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[ noun ] the greatest possible degree of something
Examples : "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior" "to the limit of his ability" Related terms |
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