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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ad·ja·cent ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, ajesaunt, from Latin adjacent-, adjacens, present participle of adjacēre to lie near, from ad- + jacēre to lie; akin to Latin jacereto throw — more at jet DATE 15th century 1. a. not distant : nearby the city and adjacent suburbs b. having a common endpoint or border adjacent lots adjacent sides of a triangle c. immediately preceding or following 2. of two angles : having the vertex and one side in common • ad·ja·cent·ly adverb Synonyms. adjacent , adjoining , contiguous , juxtaposed mean being in close proximity. adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between a house with an adjacent garage adjoining definitely implies meeting and touching at some point or line had adjoining rooms at the hotel contiguous implies having contact on all or most of one side offices in all 48 contiguous states juxtaposed means placed side by side especially so as to permit comparison and contrast a skyscraper juxtaposed to a church English Etymology adjacent early 15c., from L. adjacentem (nom. adjacens) "lying at," prp. of adjacere "lie near," from ad- "to" + jacere "to lie, rest," lit. "to throw" (see jet (v.)), with notion of "to cast (oneself) down." Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 adjacent ad·ja·cent / E5dVeisnt / adjective ~ (to sth) (of an area, a building, a room, etc. 地区、建筑、房间等) next to or near sth 与…毗连的；邻近的: The planes landed on adjacent runways. 这些飞机在毗连的跑道上降落。 Our farm land was adjacent to the river. 我们的农田在河边。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English adjacent adj. VERBS be, be situated, lie, stand The vineyards of Verzy lie adjacent to those of Verzenay. ADJ. directly, immediately There is a row of houses immediately adjacent to the factory. PREP. to The miller's house stands adjacent to the mill. Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ad·ja·cent \-ənt\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin adjacent-, adjacens, present participle of adjacēre to lie near, border on, from ad- + jacēre to lie, from jacere to throw — more at jet (to spout)1. a. : not distant or far off < the city square and the adjacent streets > : nearby but not touching < the islands and the adjacent mainland coast > b. : relatively near and having nothing of the same kind intervening : having a common border : abutting , touching : living nearby or sitting or standing relatively near or close together < hills … composed of oyster shells … the adjacent inhabitants burn them — Mark van Doren > c. : immediately preceding or following with nothing of the same kind intervening 2. of two angles : having the same vertex and one side in common Synonyms: adjoining , abutting , contiguous , conterminous , coterminous , juxtaposed : adjacent is sometimes merely a synonym for near or for close to < the heavy lands adjacent to Paris — Charles Dickens > < Indian Pass, Mount Marcy, and the adjacent mountains — John Burroughs > < the safety of the western hemisphere and of the seas adjacent thereto — F.D.Roosevelt > Applied to things of the same type, it indicates either side-by-side proximity or lack of anything of the same nature intervening < the doors of the adjacent apartment were opened, and Egmont saw himself surrounded — J.L.Motley > adjoining is quite similar to adjacent in meaning and suggestion but may more strongly indicate existence of common bounding lines or lines or points of junction < in upstate New York and the adjoining counties of Pennsylvania — Hans Kurath > < the grayish white stone building and the adjoining graveyard — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > abutting most strongly predicates actual contact at a bounding or dividing line < abutting lots > < the state of Utah and the abutting state of Idaho — W.L.Sperry > < the north wall, to which abutting rooms were added — Christopher Hussey > contiguous shows variable usage but is likely to suggest touching along a dividing line; it may indicate an unbroken continuity < Marsh and McDunn were each alone in contiguous labs, and McDunn attests that Marsh was still at the telephone when he entered his lab — Edith C. Rivett > < Tompkinsville and Stapleton are contiguous localities, virtually indistinguishable from each other — American Guide Series: New York City > < adjacent events need not be contiguous; just as there may be stretches of a string which are not occupied by beads, so the child may experience uneventful periods of time — James Jeans > conterminous may apply to a boundary strip in common; often it and coterminous indicate that all boundaries for two areas are the same and consequently that the two are practically identical < conterminous with Philadelphia county, the Quaker City lies along the west bank of the Delaware river — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < the city and county of Philadelphia are coterminous — American Year Book > < the mythology of early man was not conterminous with the religion of early man — F.B.Gummere > < the history of Zionism, in fact, is coterminous with the history of Jewry — H.E.Wedeck > juxtaposed indicates placement face to face and may suggest likelihood of contrast or opposition < opulence wildly juxtaposed to unbelievable poverty — Virginia A. Oakes > < disputes about water rights were almost inevitable between closely juxtaposed communities with expanding populations — V.G.Childe > |
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