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ADJOIN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attach or add

Example:

I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "adjoin" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in direct physical contact with; make contact

Example:

The surfaces contact at this point

Synonyms:

adjoin; contact; meet; touch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Verb group:

converge; meet (be adjacent or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adjoin"):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

adhere; cleave; cling; cohere; stick (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation)

chafe; fray; fret; rub; scratch (cause friction)

attach (be attached; be in contact with)

hug (fit closely or tightly)

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

border; environ; ring; skirt; surround (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

lean against; lean on; rest on (rest on for support)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

Our properties adjoin at this point

His fields adjoin mine at this point

Derivation:

adjunction (an act of joining or adjoining things)

adjunctive (joining; forming an adjunct)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Example:

England marches with Scotland

Synonyms:

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "adjoin" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adjoin"):

neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

The close adherence (bonding) to adjoining cell surfaces.

(Cell Adhesion, NCI Dictionary)

Three adjoining platelets are shown in the process of viscous metamorphosis (top right).

(Acute Myocardial Infarction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cell Adhesion involves close adherence (bonding) of a cell to another cell surface or to insoluble material due to physiochemical attraction between molecules on the surfaces of the adjoining bodies in contact.

(Cell Adhesion, NCI Thesaurus)

I rowed into the adjoining cove and up to the edge of the beach.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At the time of the ballroom's being built, suppers had not been in question; and a small card-room adjoining, was the only addition.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A malignant tumor of the kidney characterized by spindled myofibroblastic cells arranged in sheets or bundles with a tendency to infiltrate into the adjoining normal kidney and through the capsule into the perirenal tissues.

(Mesoblastic Nephroma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Next to him sat Hordle John, and beside him three other rough unkempt fellows with tangled beards and matted hair—free laborers from the adjoining farms, where small patches of freehold property had been suffered to remain scattered about in the heart of the royal demesne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and windows.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)