Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be next to; be contiguous to.
- intransitive verb To attach.
- intransitive verb To be contiguous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To join on or add; unite; annex or append.
- To be contiguous to or in contact with: as, his house adjoins the lake; a field adjoining the lawn.
- To be contiguous; lie or be next, or in contact: with to: as, “a farm adjoining to the highway,” Blackstone. To approach; join.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
- intransitive verb To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous.
- intransitive verb obsolete To join one's self.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To be in contact or
connection with. - verb transitive, mathematics 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).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- verb be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- verb attach or add
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I work out where rooms adjoin, where storage space is partitioned off, which aspect the building will be facing … None of which has impact on larger pieces of the Story aspects, but which has the potential to dig me out of a brain-freeze if I should need assistance.
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It is easy to point a finger at villagers whose homes adjoin orangutan habitat.
Jamie Bechtel: Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on? Jamie Bechtel 2011
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Touching on themes such as love, greed, poverty, joy, embarrassment and rivalry, Sophie's work is also on show on hoardings that adjoin Arlington House, the spectacularly brutal 1960s tower block outside the train station.
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On the 29th floor of the W Dallas Residences, the 12,200-square-foot apartment is divided into two separate living areas that adjoin; an entertainment space in the middle includes a movie theater, party room and gym.
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I work out where rooms adjoin, where storage space is partitioned off, which aspect the building will be facing … None of which has impact on larger pieces of the Story aspects, but which has the potential to dig me out of a brain-freeze if I should need assistance.
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Then again, the guy in question has a few of the MN DNR high-and-mighty's in his pocket, so it's okay if he buys up 120 acres of state land (not federal, state) that adjoin his property, even though I haven't been able to find any records of that land being auctioned off ...
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The two football fields, which adjoin the hotel and belong to an adjacent middle school, are surrounded by substantial shrubs, and a black tarp, for good measure.
Rebuilding Raiders out to put the mean back in Silver & Black 2009
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Abbey, and shew him the pastoral scenes that adjoin to it, the pure parent stream of Eden, and of Tweed, where Thomson first tuned his pastoral pipe, and I asked him to come to the Adelphi next day, to honour my sitting for the painting of my portrait.
Letter 178 2009
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Then again, the guy in question has a few of the MN DNR high-and-mighty's in his pocket, so it's okay if he buys up 120 acres of state land (not federal, state) that adjoin his property, even though I haven't been able to find any records of that land being auctioned off ...
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JD McCloud It's divided into two separate living areas that adjoin with a central entertaining space.
Private Properties 2011
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