Adjoining

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adjoin \Ad*join"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjoined}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Adjoining}.] [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.


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           Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by
           way of note.                             --Watts.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, a.
     Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The
     adjoining fane." --Dryden.
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           Upon the hills adjoining to the city.    --Shak.
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     Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting;
          bordering. See {Adjacent}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adjoining
       adj : having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots";
             "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering
             states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of
             Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the
             contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn:
             {abutting}, {adjacent}, {conterminous}, {contiguous}, {neighboring(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoining":
     abutting, adjacent, bordering, connecting, conterminous,
     contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise,
     face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional,
     juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, next to, touching