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Word Meanings - ADJACENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. See Angle. Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near. -- Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous.

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Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. See Angle. Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near. -- Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. Howell. Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.

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  • NEIGHBORING
    Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.
  • CLOSEHANDED
    Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
  • PROTRACTIVE
    Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
  • ADJACENTLY
    So as to be adjacent.
  • CLOSEFISTED
    Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
  • CONDUCTIVITY
    The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
  • PROTRACT
    Tedious continuance or delay. Spenser.
  • CLOSEN
    To make close.
  • CLOSER
    The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
  • CLOSE-FIGHTS
    Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
  • PROTRACTILE
    Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
  • CLOSEHAULED
    Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
  • INITIATE
    1. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon. How are changes of this sort to be initiated I. Taylor. 2. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments
  • NEIGHBORLINESS
    The quality or state of being neighborly.
  • CONDUCTRESS
    A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
  • CONDUCTOR
    The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
  • NEIGHBORHOOD
    1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which
  • CLOSE-BODIED
    Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
  • CONDUCTIBILITY
    1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
  • CONDUCT
    1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • UNCLOSE
    1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
  • ENCLOSE
    To inclose. See Inclose.
  • PARCLOSE
    A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
  • INCLOSER
    One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
  • CLOSE
    to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
  • PERCLOSE
    See RALEIGH
  • NONCONDUCTING
    Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • INTERCLOSE
    To shut in; to inclose.
  • INCLOSE
    Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,

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