ADJOIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjoin mean? 

• ADJOIN (verb)
  The verb ADJOIN has 3 senses:

1. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

2. be in direct physical contact with; make contact

3. attach or add

  Familiarity information: ADJOIN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJOIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adjoin    ... he / she / it adjoins   
Past simple: adjoined   
Past participle: adjoined   
-ing form: adjoining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

England marches with Scotland

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in direct physical contact with; make contact

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

adjoin; contact; meet; touch

Context example:

The surfaces contact at this point

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:

Attach or add

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter

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

 Context examples 

They slept in adjoining rooms, and Mrs. King had rushed in to Saunders.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was straining every effort for the day when he could buy the adjoining lot and put up another two-story frame building.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was silenced for the moment, while his eyes wandered on to an adjoining decoration, a photographic reproduction of somebody's "Leda and the Swan."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Sophy tripped away, and we heard her received in the adjoining room with a peal of laughter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The land was so very desirable for me in every respect, so immediately adjoining my own property, that I felt it my duty to buy it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Before this study, scientists' leading theories for the growth of the Sierra were tectonic uplift or Earth rebounding from extensive groundwater pumping in the adjoining California Central Valley.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

The southern border of the Sahara adjoins the Sahel, the semi-arid transition zone that lies between the Sahara and fertile savannas farther south.

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

It forms the posterior part of the hard palate and the lateral wall of the nasal fossa and helps to form the floor of the orbit as well as several adjoining parts.

(Palatine Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A placenta which develops in the lower uterine segment, in the zone of dilatation, so that it covers or adjoins the internal os.

(Placenta Previa, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Desmosomes are intercellular anchoring junctions that anchor intermediate filaments at membrane-associated plaques in adjoining cells.

(Desmosome, NCI Thesaurus)