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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk with deliberation |
| Synonyms: | advance, boot, debouch, drill, file, forge ahead, go on, hoof it, journey, mount, move, move out, pace, parade, patrol, pound, pound the pavement, proceed, progress, promenade, range, space, stalk, step, step out, stomp, stride, strut, traipse, tramp, tread |
| Main Entry: | advancement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward movement |
| Synonyms: | advance, anabasis, gain, headway, march, progress, progression |
| Notes: | advance means 'steady progress' and stresses effective assisting in hastening a process or bringing about a desired end, while advancement suggests progression that is bigger, more, or beyond normal |
| Antonyms: | cessation, decline, descent, halt, retreat, retrogression, return, reversion, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | circuit, course, march, path, patrol, precinct, rounds, route, walk, way |
| Main Entry: | border |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary; frontier |
| Synonyms: | beginning, borderline, door, edge, entrance, line, march, marchland, outpost, pale, perimeter, sideline, threshold |
| Notes: | a boarder is a tenant in someone's house while a border is a line that indicates a boundary |
| Antonyms: | mainland, region, territory |
| Main Entry: | border |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bound on; be on the edge |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, be adjacent to, bind, circumscribe, communicate, contour, decorate, define, delineate, edge, encircle, enclose, flank, frame, fringe, hem, join, line, march, margin, mark off, neighbor, outline, rim, set off, side, skirt, surround, touch, trim, verge |
| Notes: | a boarder is a tenant in someone's house while a border is a line that indicates a boundary |
| Antonyms: | be inside, center |
| Main Entry: | border on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come close to; approximate |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, approach, be like, be similar to, come near, compare, connect, contact, echo, impinge, join, lie near, lie next to, march, match, near, neighbor, parallel, resemble, touch, verge on |
| Antonyms: | not touch |
| Main Entry: | boundary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer limit |
| Synonyms: | abuttals, ambit, barrier, beginning, border, borderland, borderline, bounds, brink, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, edge, end, environs, extent, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, horizon, limits, line, line of demarcation, march, margin, mark, mere, mete, outline, outpost, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, purlieus, radius, rim, side, skirt, terminal, termination, terminus, verge |
| Antonyms: | inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | bound/bounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farthest limit |
| Synonyms: | boundary, compass, confine, edge, end, environs, extremity, fringe, limit, limitation, line, march, margin, pale, periphery, precinct, purlieus, rim, term, termination, verge |
| Antonyms: | inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | consort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agree |
| Synonyms: | accord, coincide, comport, concur, conform, correspond, dovetail, harmonize, march, square, tally |
| Antonyms: | disagree |
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