| Main Entry: | abut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch or be next to something |
Synonyms: |
adjoin, be adjacent to, border on, butt against, join, neighbor |
| Main Entry: | adjoin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be next to |
Synonyms: |
abut, approximate, be adjacent to, border, butt, communicate, connect, join, lie, lie beside, link, neighbor, touch, verge |
| Main Entry: | adjoining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being next to |
Synonyms: |
abutting, adjacent, approximal, bordering on, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, impinging, interconnecting, joined, joining, juxtaposed, near, neighboring, next door, touching, verging |
| Notes: | adjacent means next to but not necessarily connected with, while adjoining means next to and connected - adjacent rooms are separated by a wall, adjoining are connected by a common door; things are adjacent when they are side by side, they are adjoining when they share a common boundary and adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between |
Antonyms: |
detached, divided, separate |
| Main Entry: | border |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bound on; be on the edge |
Synonyms: |
abut, adjoin, be adjacent to, bind, circumscribe, communicate, contour, decorate, define, delineate, edge, encircle, enclose, flank, frame, fringe, hem, join, line, march, margin, mark off, neighbor, outline, rim, set off, side, skirt, surround, touch, trim, verge |
Antonyms: |
be inside, center |
| Main Entry: | border on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come close to; approximate |
Synonyms: |
abut, adjoin, approach, be like, be similar to, come near, compare, connect, contact, echo, impinge, join, lie near, lie next to, march, match, near, neighbor, parallel, resemble, touch, verge on |
Antonyms: |
not touch |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, adjoin |
Synonyms: |
abut, border, bound, communicate, join, jut, meet, neighbor, project, protrude, verge |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | near, nearby |
Synonyms: |
abutting, across the street, adjacent, adjoining, approaching, around the corner, at hand, contiguous, convenient, give or take a little, handy, hard by, immediate, imminent, impending, in spitting distance, in the ball park, near-at-hand, nearest, nearly, neighboring, next, nigh, proximate, under one's nose, warm |
Antonyms: |
away, beyond, detached, far, faraway |
| Main Entry: | contiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adjacent, in contact |
Synonyms: |
abutting, adjoining, approximal, beside, bordering, close, contactual, conterminous, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, meeting, near, near-at-hand, nearby, neighboring, next, next door to, next to, touching |
Antonyms: |
divided, separated |
| Main Entry: | join |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch; border on |
Synonyms: |
abut, adjoin, be adjacent to, be at hand, be close to, be contiguous to, bound, butt, communicate, conjoin, extend, fringe, hem, lie beside, lie near, lie next to, line, march, meet, neighbor, open into, parallel, reach, rim, skirt, trench on, verge on |
Antonyms: |
separate |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | border, mark |
Synonyms: |
abut, adjoin, align, allineate, array, bound, butt against, communicate, crease, cut, delineate, draw, edge, fix, follow, fringe, furrow, group, inscribe, join, line up, march, marshal, neighbor, order, ordinate, outline, place, queue, range, rank, rim, rule, score, skirt, touch, trace, underline, verge |