noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
▪ There is no clear boundary between the measures that can be adopted under the Treaty and those adopted under the Agreement.
▪ With it, a person has clear boundaries: You come at 8 and leave at 5.
▪ The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
▪ The lack of clear boundaries leads people to feel that they are working all the time.
▪ Be honest with yourself, and set very clear boundaries with him from now on.
▪ A network is a distributed thing without a center of control, and with few clear boundaries.
▪ The adversarial nature of judicial and arbitral proceedings likewise assumes a bilateral model, which is especially clear in boundary determination.
▪ Creating a clear boundary between work and home, they visibly tangibly signal status and authority.
geographical
▪ Yet here was a view of the Earth that showed no political, racial or geographical boundaries.
▪ However, in cyberspace, geographical boundaries are irrelevant, and people of different views are thrown together.
▪ Thornaby is a real community separated from the community of Stockton by a river which also forms a real geographical county boundary.
national
▪ Variations of definitions and standard coding schemes across national boundaries or through time are a particular problem.
▪ International marketing is an expensive proposition, since tastes differ across national boundaries.
▪ For thousands of years their people knew no national boundaries.
▪ Teams form over national boundaries and across multiple time zones.
▪ Basically it emphasised not the state, but class solidarity across frontiers and dismissed national boundaries as comparatively unimportant.
▪ United Kingdom will show leadership in financing the consolidation of industries across national boundaries.
▪ Marx describes how the exploitation of workers' labour is not limited by national boundaries.
▪ It must also strive to be first with the news, especially that emanating from within its national boundaries.
natural
▪ No natural boundary appears to exist between the natural and social sciences.
▪ It encouraged Baldersdale to look up and beyond its natural boundaries.
▪ The b -boundary is the projection into a space-time of a natural boundary attached to a higher-dimensional Riemannian manifold.
northern
▪ It's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence.
▪ Its northern boundary is perhaps Race Street; at the other edge is South Street.
▪ Within an hour he was at the northern boundary of the Waste.
political
▪ The Internet is barely affected by political boundaries and distance.
▪ Bush's speech pushed the political boundaries of the missile defence issue much further than he has done before.
▪ Does the distribution provide evidence for an interaction zone, and does it reflect the existence of tribal or other political boundaries?
▪ Nevertheless, global television via satellite leaped across nearly all political boundaries.
▪ It involves moral and practical problems which cross political and ethical boundaries.
▪ As communities become less based on geographic or political boundaries, nation states will decline along with their tax base.
▪ In terms of political and administrative boundaries, Thun is counted as part of the Oberland.
southern
▪ In total some 4,200 metres of 33,000 volt and 11,000 volt power lines were re-routed along the southern boundary of the bypass.
▪ As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
▪ For non-mountaineers, the great feature of Knoydart is Loch Nevis, forming its southern boundary.
▪ Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
traditional
▪ The shift that Kepler represents was not merely the collapse of a traditional boundary between two academic disciplines.
▪ Others were educators who were willing to take risks and step outside traditional boundaries.
▪ Table 5 show the results. Traditional boundary types have frequently been replaced by post and wire fences.
▪ At points this chapter steps outside the traditional boundaries of economics, and discusses some psychological problems in making monetary policy.
▪ Like microelectronics, biotechnology is one of those unique, so called generic, technologies which cut across traditional boundaries between industrial sectors.
▪ This story tramples traditional disciplinary boundaries and exposes time-honored philosophical principles to direct experimental tests.
▪ At national level the Griffiths proposal of a Minister for community care brings the possibility of a crossing of traditional agency boundaries.
▪ There they go beyond traditional union boundaries to functional groupings.
■ NOUN
city
▪ Some smogs can be made worse when pollution is imported from outside the city boundary from neighbouring urban-industrial areas.
▪ The good news is that many lenders will cross city boundaries if asked.
▪ They demanded that the Corporation immediately extend the city boundary and embark on a crash housing programme.
county
▪ Thornaby is a real community separated from the community of Stockton by a river which also forms a real geographical county boundary.
▪ Cars may be parked on Birkdale Summit which is crossed by both the county boundary and the watershed.
▪ Under the new system all of those services would be put into the hands of three authorities within the existing county boundaries.
▪ The Welland travels east along the line of the hills to form the County boundary with Leicestershire.
▪ But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.
▪ In the West Midlands detached portions of parishes and manors even crossed the county boundaries.
▪ It will fly away, and may not touch land this side of the county boundary.
▪ In fact, only one regular player had been born within the county boundaries.
dispute
▪ It sounds like a boundary dispute.
fence
▪ There they would touch the boundary fence and march smartly back again.
▪ The ostrich, anxious to join in the fun again, craned his long neck well forward over the boundary fence.
▪ The ball had reached the boundary fence - the ostrich's head merely being an extension of it.
▪ It's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence.
▪ Remember that when a rabbit comes through your boundary fence on to your land it automatically changes ownership.
▪ Where boundary fences are in poor condition, the estimated cost of rectification should be assessed as part of the financial appraisal.
field
▪ In addition to earthworks, field names often indicate parks, and sometimes curvilinear field boundaries can be seen on maps and air pictures.
▪ A field system could be defined as strings of coordinates following each field boundary, along with reference names or numbers.
▪ Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields.
▪ All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century, the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures.
▪ Go half right along the obvious track to the next field boundary.
layer
▪ The investigation of the flow past obstacles or of boundary layers requires a uniform flow with minimal velocity fluctuations.
▪ Part of understanding how this boundary layer looks involves under-standing what it is made of.
▪ Eventually, all the non-turbulent regions have been absorbed and the boundary layer is wholly turbulent.
▪ Like the rust on a junkyard car, that boundary layer could get only so thick.
▪ Wall flows have some special features which we illustrate by considering boundary layers.
▪ The temperature gradient just above the core would become much steeper, for example, causing a much hotter boundary layer.
▪ These photographs were obtained by illuminating a very thin layer of a smoke-filled boundary layer.
▪ Experiments like this opened geophysicists' eyes to the myriad ways this boundary layer could look.
line
▪ If Holt thinks that this proposal would remove an arbitrary boundary line between adults and children, then he is mistaken.
▪ These values issues have fragmented long-standing party alliances and crossed traditional geographical and economic boundary lines.
▪ Politicians no longer need to draw doodle shaped boundary lines to guarantee ward majorities.
▪ McLaren first began attracting attention about six years ago when he started contesting boundary lines in the development where he lives.
▪ The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.
parish
▪ By the 1820s Brighton had sprawled along several miles of cliff top, almost to the edge of its parish boundaries.
▪ Another reason for such sharp changes of alignment in otherwise straight enclosure roads is parish boundaries.
▪ Passing over the parish boundary at Sunderlandwick, the old toll bar is on the right, and Bar Farm opposite.
▪ When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries.
▪ He noted the incidence of barrows reused as Saxon cemeteries and other Saxon burials on or near parish boundaries in Wessex.
▪ The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
▪ Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
▪ In our own case, if we were free to plant beyond our parish boundaries, we should already have done so.
plate
▪ The major differences in rift characteristics relate to their position with respect to plate boundaries and the intensity of volcanic activity associated with them.
▪ The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
▪ Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
▪ They occurred nowhere near a plate boundary.
▪ There are no known tectonic plate boundaries in the area but a very ancient boundary may be lurking in the area.
▪ There are three types of plate boundary.
state
▪ The criminal seized on the new opportunity for a quick get-away across state boundaries.
▪ Consumers in most states already can purchase the service for calls within their state boundaries.
▪ The disjunction between peoples and state boundaries, a central theme of this chapter, is a fundamental problem in many countries.
wall
▪ At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property.
▪ To Meryl's vexation, the boundary wall proved to be nearly eight feet high.
▪ Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back on to the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall.
▪ It originally extended over the full width of the Railway between the boundary walls.
▪ He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high.
▪ Alice had been seen emerging through a newly-created opening in the church's boundary wall.
▪ She ambled towards the orchards, the boundary wall.
word
▪ A string such as can be parsed into six different word strings even when the word boundary is known.
▪ Every word boundary as a choice point?
▪ However, the detection of word boundaries is relatively simple since they are usually indicated by physical spacing on the page.
▪ The problem is one of word boundary ambiguity.
▪ It is known that there are few, if any, reliable acoustic cues to word boundaries.
▪ Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries.
▪ A major cause of ambiguity is the lack of acoustic cues to word boundaries.
▪ The problem is not just one of poor acoustic input but also of ambiguous word boundaries.
■ VERB
cross
▪ Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners, suppliers or customers.
▪ Therefore, they found themselves needing to cross the group boundaries in getting products engineered and assembled.
▪ She started with what other people could bring her; she crossed boundaries to do that.
▪ As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
▪ Many processes, such as sales order processing, will cross departmental boundaries.
▪ He has had to cross three international boundaries in order to reach Chicago.
▪ It involves moral and practical problems which cross political and ethical boundaries.
▪ The good news is that many lenders will cross city boundaries if asked.
define
▪ First, it entails defining the site's boundaries beforehand, and these are not always known with certainty.
▪ Of course, that figure depends on how you define the geographic boundaries of the area.
▪ The need to define the boundaries of obedience is at the heart of Richardson's novel.
▪ Every political system defines its boundaries of legitimate action differently.
▪ None of these élites had sharply defined boundaries, and there was much overlap among them.
▪ In this chapter we define the boundaries of the sports industry and outline the key contributors to its economic importance.
draw
▪ How can I draw boundaries round, or limit the scope of my chosen field?
▪ Instead of having the politicians decide them, a randomly selected 11-member citizens' panel will draw the boundaries.
▪ One solution to this problem of where to draw the boundaries between classes derives from recent neo-Marxist theories.
▪ The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
▪ In short, drawing a boundary between sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena is likely to be an exceedingly difficult enterprise.
▪ Politicians no longer need to draw doodle shaped boundary lines to guarantee ward majorities.
▪ The result was to draw the boundaries of certain knowledge much more narrowly than before.
establish
▪ It establishes boundaries and compartments in an otherwise chaotic social living space.
▪ So we strongly recommend you establish some boundaries and keep your business world separate from your love life.
▪ The process of drawing a line, setting limits, establishing a boundary, is a vital part of social development.
▪ We shall allow single-tier local authorities to be established within the boundaries considered necessary by that commission.
extend
▪ These values extend well into the boundaries of improbability.
▪ These are the extended boundaries of the self.
▪ They demanded that the Corporation immediately extend the city boundary and embark on a crash housing programme.
▪ With this exotic boar dish, he extends the boundaries by incorporating such decidedly non-southwestern tropical ingredients as pineapple and tamarind.
▪ The government was essentially faced with the option of winding down MDC's operations or extending its boundaries.
form
▪ The first ventral arm plate is pentagonal with the lateral edges raised forming a boundary lip to the second oral tentacle pores.
▪ In the middle of the room seven or eight men stood together, forming a boundary.
▪ For non-mountaineers, the great feature of Knoydart is Loch Nevis, forming its southern boundary.
▪ Teams form over national boundaries and across multiple time zones.
▪ The Welland travels east along the line of the hills to form the County boundary with Leicestershire.
▪ The narrow river formed the boundary between two counties-Pale Horse to the south, Paradise to the north.
▪ These lines therefore form boundaries to the space-time in these regions.
mark
▪ Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans; beyond it - unknowable nomads!
▪ That point is marked by a sharp boundary known as the Mohorovicic discontinuity, or Moho.
▪ The horse would walk up that and that was how they marked the boundaries.
▪ In January, the teams finally ended their drawn-out discussions with a map that clearly marks the boundary.
▪ It marks the boundary of the parish of Langtom Matravers.
▪ The Bann marks the boundary between the diocese of Armagh and the diocese of Dromore.
▪ The magnetopause marks the inner boundary of the agitated region which itself is called the magnetosheath.
▪ These great trees that mark old boundaries are still deep in their dark phase.
overstep
▪ Such comment may, and no doubt does, from time to time overstep boundaries acceptable to the individual or local authority so criticised.
▪ I have overstepped my boundaries, challenged his authority, sabotaged his mission.
▪ To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries.
▪ You must never allow yourself to be crowded out, neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary.
▪ Individuals are required to perform their job to the full, but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority.
push
▪ It has, by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge, given us much that has enriched our lives.
▪ But that willingness to push beyond the usual boundaries of electronic is precisely why Prodigy seems so, well, prodigious.
▪ A brilliant word-processor proving shareware can push back the boundaries of software value for money.
▪ Bush's speech pushed the political boundaries of the missile defence issue much further than he has done before.
▪ Female speaker I like them because they push back the boundaries.
▪ There is no need to push boundaries here.
▪ Almost every work that is premiered seems to push out the boundaries of the form a little farther.
▪ Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them, dirt and all.
reach
▪ These birds begin their flight attacks before we even reach their territory boundary.
▪ One solution is to reach beyond the boundaries of the school by creating a new relationship between schools and employers.
▪ The ball had reached the boundary fence - the ostrich's head merely being an extension of it.
▪ The game ends when the stream reaches the boundary of the grid.
▪ Another well-timed cover-drive beat the fielder and this time it reached the boundary.
▪ So policy must reach across departmental boundaries.
▪ Ultimately, however, at the highest Rayleigh numbers, the thermals lose their identity before reaching the opposite boundary.
set
▪ It is as if the vegetal cells have set up a new boundary region for specifying positional information.
▪ Their problem is they have trouble setting boundaries around their need to fix things.
▪ There is, then, a practical reason for setting up boundaries between professional life and personal life.
▪ Management beyond the team can provide direction and set boundaries.
▪ Be honest with yourself, and set very clear boundaries with him from now on.
▪ Seventy percent of the voters approved Measure G, which sets an urban growth boundary around the perimeter of Novato.
▪ Government can do much to set the boundaries in which it is possible to create wealth.
▪ And it has always been the men who have set the boundaries and enforced them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overstep the limits/bounds/boundaries
▪ A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
▪ But there was a period in his life at which his suspicion and hostility to others overstepped the bounds of sanity.
▪ Does Dickens, for example, overstep the limits of grammar in beginning Bleak House with a series of sentences without main verbs?
▪ Individuals are required to perform their job to the full, but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A fence marks the property's boundaries.
▪ More and more people are moving outside the city boundaries.
▪ Politicians drew strangely shaped boundaries, in order to give themselves an advantage in the next election.
▪ the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester
▪ The Mississippi River forms a natural boundary between Iowa and Illinois.
▪ The Mississippi River forms the boundary between Tennessee and Arkansas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Open-enrollment charter schools draw students from across school district boundaries and are financed with state and local school dollars.
▪ The boundaries for the Snowdonia National Park run round the edge of Penrhyn, which covers six square miles.
▪ The boundaries laid down followed fairly closely those of the perambulation of 1300.
▪ The good news is that many lenders will cross city boundaries if asked.
▪ These photographs were obtained by illuminating a very thin layer of a smoke-filled boundary layer.