borne

See also: Borne and borné

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of beran.

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boən/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: born (accents with the horse–hoarse merger); bawn (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

AdjectiveEdit

borne (not comparable)

1. carried, supported.
   • 1901 - Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence

     In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

   • 1881: Oscar Wilde, "Rome Unvisited", Poems, page 44

     When, bright with purple and with gold,
     Come priest and holy cardinal,
     And borne above the heads of all
     The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

   • c.2000 - David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II

     Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

HyponymsEdit

• airborne
• bloodborne
• trainborne
• waterborne

TranslationsEdit

carried, supported

• Catalan: cargat
• Dutch: gedragen (nl), ondersteund (nl)
• French: porté (fr), supporté (fr)

• Indonesian: dibawa (id)
• Occitan: cargat, portat, suportat
• Spanish: soportado (es), aguantado (es)

VerbEdit

borne

1. past participle of bear
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [1]

     “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”

SynonymsEdit

• endured

AnagramsEdit

• Boner, Breon, Ebron, boner

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish [Term?].

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁn/

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NounEdit

borne f (plural bornes)

1. bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
2. territorial boundary marker
3. territorial or geographical border
4. milestone such as those alongside a roadway
5. (slang) a kilometre
6. mark

   dépasser les bornes

   cross the mark

7. machine

   borne libre service

   self-service machine

Derived termsEdit

• borné
• borner
• borne-fontaine
• borne-abreuvoir
• radioborne

Further readingEdit

• “borne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish.

NounEdit

borne f (plural bornes)

1. (Jersey) boundary stone