adjoining

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adjoining - 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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  Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, a.
     Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The
     adjoining fane." --Dryden.
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           Upon the hills adjoining to the city.    --Shak.
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     Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting;
          bordering. See Adjacent.
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adjoining - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoining":
     abutting, adjacent, bordering, connecting, conterminous,
     contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise,
     face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional,
     juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, next to, touching