释义 |
abuta‧but /əˈbʌt/ (also abut on) verb (past tense and past participle abutted, present participle abutting) [transitive] formal abutOrigin: 1400-1500 Partly from Old French aboter ‘to share a border with’, from bout ‘act of hitting, end’, from boter ‘to hit’; partly from Old French abuter ‘to come to an end’, from but ‘end, aim’ VERB TABLEabut |
Present | they | abut | | it | abuts | Past | it, they | abutted | Present perfect | they | have abutted | | it | has abutted | Past perfect | it, they | had abutted | Future | it, they | will abut | Future perfect | it, they | will have abutted |
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Present | they | are abutting | | it | is abutting | Past | they | were abutting | | it | was abutting | Present perfect | they | have been abutting | | it | has been abutting | Past perfect | it, they | had been abutting | Future | it, they | will be abutting | Future perfect | it, they | will have been abutting |
- She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
- Take a 15-storey building abutting a three-storey structure.
- The back end of the truck should end up just abutting the door of the bay.
- There was a small, dark bar abutting the lanes, and it called to me.
if one piece of land or a building abuts another, it is next to it or touches one side of it → adjoin |