Meaning of ADJOIN
| Pronunciation: | | u'joyn
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- [v] 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"
- [v] lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
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| | Synonyms: | | contact, meet, touch |
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| | See Also: | | abut, adhere, adjoin, attach, border, butt, butt against, butt on, chafe, cleave, cling, cohere, cover, edge, fray, fret, hug, lean against, lean on, march, neighbor, neighbour, rest on, rub, scratch, skirt, spread over, stick, surround | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 upon |
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