What's the difference between border and matte?

Border


Definition:

  • (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
  • (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
  • (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
  • (n.) A narrow flower bed.
  • (v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
  • (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
  • (v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (3) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
  • (4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (5) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (6) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (7) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
  • (8) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
  • (9) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (10) However, in the normal and border zones of the verapamil group the mitochondria are smaller when compared with the respective zones in the two other groups, but increases relatively more in size in the border and ischaemic zones.
  • (11) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (12) Comparison of germline and translocation clones demonstrated that breakage of chromosome 1 had occurred at the border of a tandem repeat of Alu sequences.
  • (13) Subcortical leukomalacia occurs in this triangle as well as in border zones between the major cerebral arteries.
  • (14) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
  • (15) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
  • (16) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (17) All inhibitors had no effect on L-Ala uptake into brush-border membrane vesicles in presence of Na+ gradient.
  • (18) Most of the subjects' mandibular movements did not improve to the point of making reproducible border movements on a pantograph.
  • (19) These changes were accomplished by an increase in sagittal condylar growth and by bone resorption at the posterior part of the mandibular lower border.
  • (20) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.

Matte


Definition:

  • (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.
  • (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
  • (2) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (3) As luck would have it, the outgoing Bartlet and his successor, Matt Santos, are currently dealing with a foreign crisis, too.
  • (4) Kirkby is not a particularly prosperous town,” says Matt Donnelly, 27.
  • (5) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
  • (6) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
  • (7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
  • (8) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
  • (9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
  • (10) The head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Matt Baggott, said it was a difficult security operation dealing with a large number of people determined to cause disorder and violence.
  • (11) He considers himself more of a tracksuit coach, despite seeing his influence with the younger age groups at St George’s Park diminished since Matt Crocker swapped Southampton for the FA to become head of player and coach development, but would be more than happy to be part of the body’s consultation process as they seek to identify Hodgson’s successor.
  • (12) League Two’s top scorer, Matt Tubbs of Portsmouth, features alongside his team-mate Jed Wallace in the PFA’s team of that division.
  • (13) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
  • (14) My condolences to his family and friends February 27, 2017 The culture minister, Matt Hancock, said Kaufman, former chairman of the culture select committee, had “a distinctive voice and championed the arts in parliament”.
  • (15) I relate this clinical observation to the idea of non-attachment as found in spiritual tradition, and I draw on the work of Bion and Matte Blanco to locate these ideas within psychoanalytic theory.
  • (16) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (17) This story was amended on 20 November to correct the given name of Matt Topic.
  • (18) The BBC said it had no further comment to make about Clarkson's suicide remarks, on Wednesday's edition of BBC1 show hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.
  • (19) Matt Schaub has done nothing so far today to persuade them otherwise, completeing 13 of 21 passes for 134 yards, no touchdowns and one interception.
  • (20) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.