| 单词 | adjoin |
| 释义 | adjoin (once / 435 pages) v Things that adjoin are next to each other or share a boundary. Two adjoining states are neighbors. The United States adjoins Canada. Just as the word join suggests togetherness, things that adjoin are together in a specific way. They're adjacent, which means they're butting right up against one other. Two adjoining buildings are connected or next-door neighbors. Two adjoining states share a border. If two rooms adjoin, they are connected by a door or they share a wall. When things adjoin, they have a physical connection. WORD FAMILYadjoin: adjoined, adjoining, adjoins USAGE EXAMPLESThe other, in the verdant hills of West Java, will adjoin a theme park. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) The parcel adjoins Jacobs Point Park on Anderson Island, which with the acquisition now totals 100 acres of prime forest, wetlands and beach. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) The theatre and adjoining house were purchased by the Windhorse Trust to be the new Cambridge Buddhist Centre in 1998. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1v lie adjacent to another or share a boundary Canada adjoins the U.S. Syn|Hypo|Hyper abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march neighbor, neighbour be located near or adjacent to contact, meet, touch be in direct physical contact with; make contact 2v be in direct physical contact with; make contact Syn|Hypo contact, meet, touch converge, meet be adjacent or come together cover, spread over form a cover over adhere, cleave, cling, cohere, stickcome or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation chafe, fray, fret, rub, scratchcause friction attachbe attached; be in contact with hugfit closely or tightly abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, marchlie adjacent to another or share a boundary border, environ, ring, skirt, surroundextend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle lean against, lean on, rest onrest on for support floodcover with liquid, usually water bloodycover with blood mist, mist overbecome covered with mist glaciatecover with ice or snow or a glacier strewcover; be dispersed over grass, grass overcover with grass moldfit tightly, follow the contours of conglutinatestick together agglutinateclump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. cake, coatform a coat over drown, overwhelm, submergecover completely or make imperceptible leech ontoadmire boundlessly and follow around fringedecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe gird, girdleput a girdle on or around cloistersurround with a cloister close in, enclose, inclose, shut insurround completely mantlecover like a mantle hem insurround in a restrictive manner cloak, clothe, drape, robecover as if with clothing neighbor, neighbourbe located near or adjacent to cloistersurround with a cloister, as of a garden blanketform a blanket-like cover (over) carpetform a carpet-like cover (over) smotherform an impenetrable cover over shroudform a cover like a shroud 3v attach or add I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter Hyper add make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of |
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