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Borderline


Borderline
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Borderline is an adjective and a noun.

As an adjective it can be used to show how something can be divided between two very different conditions, with the possibility of belonging to either one of them.

For example: A borderline case. A borderline candidate.

As a noun borderline shows something that separates two different qualities.

For example:-

The borderline between love and hate is very thin.

This photo shows the borderline between the former GDR and West Germany. Called the Innerdeutsche Grenze or Deutsch-Deutsche Grenze, it was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1,381-kilometer border.

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