释义
[ uh -joi -ning ] SHOW IPA
/ əˈdʒɔɪ nɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective being in contact at some point or line; located next to another; bordering; contiguous: the adjoining room; a row of adjoining town houses.
Origin of adjoining First recorded in 1485–95; adjoin + -ing2
ANTONYMS FOR adjoining separated.
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synonym study for adjoining Adjoining, adjacent, bordering all mean near or close to something. Adjoining implies touching, having a common point or line: an adjoining yard. Adjacent implies being nearby or next to something else: all the adjacent houses; adjacent angles. Bordering means having a common boundary with something: the farm bordering on the river.
OTHER WORDS FROM adjoining non·ad·join·ing, adjective un·ad·join·ing, adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH adjoining adjacent, adjoining (see synonym study at the current entry) Words nearby adjoining adjective phrase, adjective pronoun, adjectivize, adjigo, adjoin, adjoining , adjoint, adjoint differential equation, adjourn, adjournment, adjt.
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Example sentences from the Web for adjoining Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
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Which is why in 1961, the distillery finally decided to purchase the estate and its adjoining home.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By Whiskey | | December 10, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Four people in adjoining houses had died, the only fatalities.
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La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.
Eat Your Way Through Tampa’s Cuban Oasis | Starbucks| July 10, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Orange robe-clad monks from the adjoining Buddhist temple oversee the morbid sculpture park.
Welcome to Buddhist Hell | Nina Strochlic| January 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
He led her into an adjoining room, leaving Mrs. Yeobright by the fire.
Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy
The buildings were immediately destroyed, together with a magazine, which was unexpectedly found in the adjoining village.
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 | William Hutcheon Hall
The adjoining house (No. 22) is 14th century, and probably dates back to about the end of the reign of Philippe-le-Bel.
Rheims and the Battles for its Possession | Various
The animal headed through a gap in an old fence and started across an adjoining pasture which contained a shallow muddy pond.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson
The interchange of adjoining metrically and grammatically equivalent substantives is very common.
The Last Poems of Ovid | Ovid
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British Dictionary definitions for adjoining adjective being in contact; connected or neighbouring
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Words related to adjoining neighboring, contiguous, adjacent, joined, near, touching, connecting, interconnecting, abutting, impinging, juxtaposed, verging, joining, conterminous, approximal, coterminous, next door