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Adjoin
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Adjoin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Adjoin has 3 senses
- adjoin(v = verb.contact) abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march - lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" is one way to adjoin, contact, meet, touch
- adjoin(v = verb.contact) contact, meet, touch - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" Derived forms noun adjunction1, adjective adjunctive1
- adjoin(v = verb.change) Array - attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter" is one way to add
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Our properties Adjoin at this point
His fields Adjoin mine at this point
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Adjoin, v. t. [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.].
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. [1913 Webster]
"Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note."
[1913 Webster]
Adjoin, v. i.
- To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. [1913 Webster]" The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent." [1913 Webster]"When one man's land adjoins to another's." [1913 Webster]
- To join one's self. [1913 Webster]"She lightly unto him adjoined side to side." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Adjoin, v.tr.
1 be next to and joined with.
2 archaic = ADD 1.
1 be next to and joined with.
2 archaic = ADD 1.
Etymology
ME f. OF ajoindre, ajoign- f. L adjungere adjunct- (as AD-, jungere join)
THESAURUS
Adjoin
abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose, attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border, border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate, complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end, enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join, join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into, saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim, unite with, verge, verge uponROGET THESAURUS
Adjoin
Nearness
VB be near, adjoin, hang about, trench on, border upon, verge upon, stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug, huddle, hang upon the skirts of, hover over, burn, touch, bring near, draw near, converge, crowd, place side by side.Contiguity
VB be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite), link (vinculum).
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