1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. adjoin

Find the word definition

What is "adjoin"

Crossword clues for adjoin

adjoin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjoin
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
house
▪ The mill is stone built and adjoins the mill house.
▪ The gallery canopy roof, which adjoins the house, is very old and lies below the house roof.
▪ This area ranges from almost full sun, beyond the herb bed, to deep shade adjoining the house.
▪ A Roman Catholic chapel adjoins the house, and the village has a Methodist chapel.
▪ A certain Mr Pilgrim had bought, in 1950, a vacant plot of land adjoining his house.
▪ A delightful country cottage adjoining the house is available to rent during the school holidays.
land
▪ A certain Mr Pilgrim had bought, in 1950, a vacant plot of land adjoining his house.
▪ I produce lambs on the land immediately adjoining the power station.
room
▪ She and Susan had rooms adjoining, so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house.
▪ Her daughter watches wide-eyed from the tatami room adjoining the coffeehouse.
▪ My small room adjoined the doctor's surgery.
▪ He is in his study, a room that adjoins our bedroom.
▪ There was a small room adjoining the games-room, and she poked her head round the corner.
▪ Margarett and Shaw shared a room that adjoined the only full bath; the girls and Senny the only other bedroom.
▪ It didn't slow him down and he led the way briskly into a comfortable room adjoining the refectory.
▪ His colleagues rushed him to a room in the adjoining New Takanawa Prince Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A luxury hotel adjoins the convention center.
▪ The 100-acre parcel of land adjoins Seagal's ranch, about 30 miles north of Santa Barbara.
▪ The kitchen adjoins the sitting room, which is spacious, high and airy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accordingly we adjoin G1 to our system also.
▪ Council officers are also backing plans to build 35 new houses on adjoining farmland by Flint-based construction group David McLean.
▪ His colleagues rushed him to a room in the adjoining New Takanawa Prince Hotel.
▪ So I borrowed a yoke of oxen and plowed an adjoining field.
▪ The mill is stone built and adjoins the mill house.
▪ They may be long chains of clauses linked by coordination or simply by being adjoined.
▪ We were tucking in to our makeshift breakfast when there came a cry from the adjoining cubicle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjoin

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.

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.
--Watts.

Adjoin

Adjoin \Ad*join"\ ([a^]d*join"), v. i.

  1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.

    When one man's land adjoins to another's.
    --Blackstone.

    Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.

  2. To join one's self. [Obs.]

    She lightly unto him adjoined side to side.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjoin

c.1300, "unite, ally" from Old French ajoin- stem of ajoindre "join together, unite," from Latin adiungere "fasten on, harness, join to," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iungere "to bind together" (see jugular). Meaning "be contiguous with, be adjacent to" is from late 14c. Related: Adjoined; adjoining.

Wiktionary
adjoin

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To be in contact or connection with. 2 (context transitive mathematics chiefly algebra and number theory English) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring(,) etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).

WordNet
adjoin

  1. v. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on]

  2. 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" [syn: touch, meet, contact]

  3. attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "adjoin".

Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.

Naivasha and Kisumu, which adjoin the Victoria Nyanza, formed at first the eastern province of Uganda, but were transferred to the East Africa protectorate on the 1st of April 1902.

Hence each cell consists of an outer spherical portion and of two, three, or more perfectly flat surfaces, according as the cell adjoins two, three or more other cells.

Airthrey Castle, standing in a fine park with a lake, adjoins the town on the south-east, and just beyond it are the old church and burying-ground of Logie, beautifully situated at the foot of a granite spur of the Ochil range.

The other lady-in-waiting rises to go into her bedroom, which adjoins that of the Empress.

The closet, which adjoins my chamber at La Vallee, has a sliding board in the floor.

While Constantius made arrangements for our transport up the Rhenus, I was free to explore the marketplace that adjoined the port, the faithful Philip at my side.

As the carriage entered upon the forest that adjoined his paternal domain, his eyes once more caught, between the chesnut avenue, the turreted corners of the chateau.

He was in the cedar parlour, that adjoined the great hall, laid upon a couch, and suffering a degree of anguish from his wound, which few persons could have disguised, as he did.

Again it is the tip, as stated by Ciesielski, though denied by others, which is sensitive to the attraction of gravity, and by transmission causes the adjoining parts of the radicle to bend towards the centre of the earth.

This difference in the results is interesting, for it shows that too strong an irritant does not induce any transmitted effect, and does not cause the adjoining, upper and growing part of the radicle to bend.

It appears, therefore, at first sight that greasing the tips of these radicles had checked but little their bending to the adjoining damp surface.

A part or organ may be called sensitive, when its irritation excites movement in an adjoining part.

When this part is irritated by contact with any object, by caustic, or by a thin slice being cut off, the upper adjoining part of the radicle, for a length of from 6 or 7 to even 12 mm.

Here it obviously is not the mere touch, but the effect produced by the caustic, which induces the tip to transmit some influence to the adjoining part, causing it to bend away.