adjoin

4 definitions found

adjoin - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by
           way of note.                             --Watts.
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  Adjoin \Ad*join"\ ([a^]d*join"), v. i.
     1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as,
        the houses adjoin.
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              When one man's land adjoins to another's.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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     Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or
           obsolescent.
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     2. To join one's self. [Obs.]
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              She lightly unto him adjoined side to side.
                                                    --Spenser.
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adjoin - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  adjoin
      v 1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada
           adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn:
           border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against
           , butt on]
      2: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two
         buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not
         contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this
         point" [syn: touch, adjoin, meet, contact]
      3: attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"

adjoin - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoin":
     abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose,
     attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border,
     border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate,
     complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end,
     enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join,
     join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march,
     marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus,
     postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into,
     saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin,
     suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim,
     unite with, verge, verge upon