Border vs. Frame — What's the Difference?

Borders are geographic boundaries, imposed either by geographic features such as oceans, or by arbitrary groupings of political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Borders are established through warfare, colonization, or simple symbiotic agreements between the political entities that reside in those areas; the creation of these agreements is called boundary delimitation.

A structure that gives shape or support

A part that forms the outer edge of something.

The structure or physique of a human or animal body

A decorative strip around the edge of something, such as fabric.

An open structure or rim for encasing, holding, or bordering

A strip of ground, as at the edge of a garden or walk, in which ornamental plants or shrubs are planted.

A closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines.

The line or frontier area separating political divisions or geographic regions; a boundary.

The edge, usually rectangular, delimiting the boundaries of an image.

To lie along or adjacent to the border of

The bounded area of a visual image, as in photography or film

To put a border on.

One of the set of still images that constitute a film or video.

To lie adjacent to another

A single image, as in a comic strip or graphic novel, usually bounded by a rectangular line.

To be almost like another in character

(Computers) A rectangular area in which text or graphics can be shown, especially one of several rectangular areas on a web page displaying different documents simultaneously.

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

A general structure or system

The outer edge of something.

A general state or condition

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

A frame of reference.

A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.

The presentation of events in a narrative work, especially a work of literature or film, such that characters in the narrative exist in isolation, uninfluenced by, unaware of, and unable to interact with the narrator or audience.

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.

The context in which discourse occurs.

(computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.

A pattern for a syntactic construction in which one of a group of words can vary.

(transitive) To put a border on something.

A round or period of play in some games, such as bowling and billiards.

(transitive) To form a border around; to bound.

(Baseball) An inning.

(transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.

Often frames A pair of eyeglasses, excluding the lenses

(intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).

See cold frame.

(intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).

(Informal) A frame-up.

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

(Obsolete) Shape; form.

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

To enclose in a frame

A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

To put together the structural parts of; construct the frame of

A narrow flower bed.

To conceive or design

To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; - with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

To establish the context for and terminology regarding (a subject of discussion or debate), especially so as to exclude an unwanted point of view

To approach; to come near to; to verge.

To put into words; formulate

To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

To form (words) silently with the lips.

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

To make up evidence or contrive events so as to incriminate (a person) falsely.

To confine within bounds; to limit.

To prearrange (a contest) so as to ensure a desired fraudulent outcome; fix

A line that indicates a boundary

(Baseball) To catch (a pitch) in such a way as to make it appear to have passed through the strike zone.

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

(Archaic) To go; proceed

The boundary of a surface

(transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

A decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

(transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

A strip forming the outer edge of something;

(transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;

(transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.

Form the boundary of; be contiguous to

(transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.

Enclose in or as if in a frame;

(transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.

Provide with a border or edge;

(transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;

Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup.

To wash ore with the aid of a frame.

To move.

To proceed; to go.

(tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).

To strengthen; refresh; support.

To execute; perform.

To cause; to bring about; to produce.

To profit; avail.

To fit; accord.

To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.

The structure of a person's body; the human body.

A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

A context for understanding or interpretation.

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.

(horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.

(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.

(philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.

A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

An inning.

Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

(dated) Frame of mind; disposition.

(obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

A stage or location in a video game.

A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.

(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.

(mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.

To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

To cause; to bring about; to produce.

To support.

To provide with a frame, as a picture.

To manufacture false evidence against (an innocent person), so as to make the person appear guilty of a crime. The act of framing a person is often referred to as a frame-up.

To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

To proceed; to go.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. Same as frame of mind

Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.

A structure supporting or containing something

One of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies

Alternative names for the body of a human being;

A period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat

The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;

Enclose in or as if in a frame;

Enclose in a frame, as of a picture

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap;

Formulate in a particular style or language;

Draw up the plans or basic details for;

Construct by fitting or uniting parts together