Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adjoining"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, a.
Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
``The adjoining fane.'' --Dryden.
Upon the hills adjoining to the city. --Shak.
Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting;
bordering. See {Adjacent}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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" [syn: {abutting}, {adjacent},
{bordering(a)}, {conterminous}, {contiguous}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.