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Adjacent   /ədʒˈeɪsənt/   Listen
Adjacent

adjective
1.
Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space.  Synonyms: next, side by side.  "In the next room" , "The person sitting next to me" , "Our rooms were side by side"
2.
Having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching.  Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring.  "The side of Germany conterminous with France" , "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho" , "Neighboring cities"
3.
Near or close to but not necessarily touching.  "New York and adjacent cities"



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"Adjacent" Quotes from Famous Books



... was assisting some bricklayers in an extension adjacent to the foundry of Christofle and Company. I saw him going, with a slow and lounging pace, toward the brick-pile, stopping by the way to quench his thirst at a hydrant, whose stream was so slender that a good many applications ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various
... of the backwoodsmen of Kentucky and Tennessee, the frontier towns were too isolated from the main settled regions to allow much military protection by the older areas. On the New England frontier, because it was adjacent to the coast towns, this was not the case, and here, as in seventeenth century Virginia, great activity in protecting the frontier was evinced by the colonial authorities, and the frontier towns themselves ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner
... young girl's life. What would she be like? What had time made of her? The curiosity—we will not call it passion—was overpowering. Pure "love" was seldom recognized as such by the age. When the carriage reached a spot where two roads forked, leading to adjacent estates, ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... an adjacent room with the message, and the superintendent of the department takes in ...
— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot
... immediately surrounding the hair to be operated upon, in order to protect it from the dye. By very skillful manipulation, and the observance of due precautions, the hair may be thoroughly moistened with the silver solution without touching the adjacent skin; but this can only be done when the hair of the head is under treatment by ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous


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