Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent.
- intransitive verb To border upon or end at; be next to.
- intransitive verb To support as an abutment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate; rest: with on, upon, or against before the object: as, his land abuts upon mine; the building abuts on the highway; the bridge abuts against the solid rock.
- In ship-building, same as
butt - To cause to terminate against or in contiguity with; project, or cause to impinge upon.
- Sometimes shortened to but.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with
on ,upon , oragainst .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What political operatives do not want to talk abut is how few voters can possibly be affected by a campaign.
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I simply rehydrated my dried cranberries in abut 1/3 cup of bourbon by letting them soak in it for about 30 minutes (you can also zap the mixture in the microwave for a few seconds to help the process along).
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I do think for everything its worth Starwars should be the top but all i really care abut is Alien is there No ammount of spaceships can be as cool as a little squirmy thing bursting oout of a guys chest then devouring a crew.
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I don’t recall him ever uttering a word abut mitocondria, or genetic clocks.
Creationism at Italian Science Agency - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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I don’t recall him ever uttering a word abut mitocondria, or genetic clocks.
Creationism at Italian Science Agency - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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I'm almost certain that I won't be able to be part of that "you" he was talking abut, which is why I feel some envy in the best sense of the word: in admiration for your work and your future, your inspiring struggle and your feelings.
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'Oh – a – he will have left word abut the car in any case.'
The Convert 1907
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Congress should pass a law, declaring that if the Attorney General of the United Slates should, when on a visit to his friends and family, be guil - ty of singing Yankee Ddodle, bis bonds shall be forfeited t What would the honorable gentleman say to such a statute 7 But, sir, suppose, instead of making this a part of the statute regulating the office of Attorney General, we should place tt in the middle of abut which is now before us, en - titled "Ad act for altering the name of the district of Nanjemoy into that of St. Mary's?"
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You must get lots of questions abut Rob and Kristen.
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We all can come up with our own opinions abut what he might actually be.
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oroboros commented on the word abut
Tuba in reverse.
July 22, 2007