Adjoin

Definitions: Adjoin

Adjoin

Verb

1. Lie adjacent to another; "Canada adjoins the U.S.".

2. Be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point".

Date "adjoin" was first used: sometime around 1303. (references)

Synonyms: Adjoin

Synonyms: abut (v), border (v), butt (v), butt against (v), butt on (v), contact (v), edge (v), meet (v), touch (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contiguity	Verb: be contiguous; Adjective: join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere.
Nearness	Verb: be near; Adjective: adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Adjoin

English words defined with "adjoin": Adjoined. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adjoin": HEAD ♦ -head. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Adjoin" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 70.59% of the time. "Adjoin" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	70.59%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	29.41%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "adjoin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		belend (abut, be next to). (various references)

Albanian		prek (affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon). (various references)

Arabic		‏حاذى (border, parallel), ‏ضم (add, annexation, apposition, close, combine, conjoin, conjunction, join, piece, piece together, subtend, take in), ‏جاور (verge). (various references)

Bulgarian		гранича (abut upon, bound, confine, neighbor, neighbour, touch), присъединявам (add, affiliate, aggregate, annex, join, range, tag, unite), прилагам (administer, apply, attach, bestow, carry out, enclose, enforce, execute, join, practice, practise, pursue, put through, subjoin), допирам се (contact). (various references)

Chinese		毗連 , 毗邻 (Adjacent, Adjacently, Adjoined, Adjoining, bordered, Bordering), 毘 (border), 毗 (border). (various references)

Czech		sousedit s (border on), přiléhat (suit). (various references)

Dutch		grenzen aan (abut, abut on to, abut to, be next to), belenden (abut, be next to). (various references)

Esperanto		limtuŝi (abut, be next to). (various references)

Farsi		پیوسته بودن(به), پیوستن (Adhere, Affiliate, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Attach, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Connect, Couple, Join, Meet, Sort, Weld), متصل کردن (Apply, Connect, Joggle, Join, Link), متصل شدن , وصلت دادن (Match, Unite), افزودن (Add, Aggrandize, Amplify, Append, Augment, Eke, Enhance, Imp, Increase, Inset, Redouble). (various references)

Finnish		olla rajakkain. (various references)

French		adjoindre (add), aboutir, toucher � , toucher, être contigu. (various references)

Frisian		neistlizze (abut, be next to). (various references)

German		angrenzen (abut, adjacency, border, flank, to flank). (various references)

Greek		συνορεύω (abut, border, border on, flank), γειτονεύω (neighbor, neighbour). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'בול עם (neighbour). (various references)

Hungarian		egyesít (associated, combine, incorporate, integrate, join, join up, rejoin, to accrete, to affiliate, to ally, to club, to confederate, to consolidate, to incorporate, to join, to knit, to meld, to merge, to rejoin, to unite, to wed, unify, unionize, unite), csatlakozik (accede, affiliate, join, join in, link, to abut, to affiliate, to fall into line, to fall into line with, to rally). (various references)

Indonesian		bergandengan (see: gandeng), berdampingan (lihat: berdamping). (various references)

Italian		essere vicino, essere contiguo a, congiungere (associate, bind, conjoin, connect, interlock, join, join up, joint, link, unite), confinare con (border, neighbor, neighbour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		隣接 (adjacent, related). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		き�"せつ (adjacent, neighboring, pressing, urgent), り�"せつ (adjacent, related). (various references)

Korean		� �하십시�". (various references)

Manx		sheeyney ry-cheilley (abut, contiguous, marry), lhiattaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		adjoinay

Portuguese		unir (ally, attach, band, cement, compact, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, dower, fasten, faze, fish eggs, fuse, gather, hold true, incorporated, inosculate, join, knit, link, marry, mate, put together, splice, team up, unite, Wed, yoke), ser contíguo a, reunir (aggregate, annex, annexe, assemble, band, center, centre, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, gang up, gather, get up, group, join, mass circulation, muster roll, piece, piecemeal, put together, rally, rejoin, reunite, unite), juntar (accumulate, add, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, attach, brace, bulk, cohere, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, fundament, gather, get together, halving, hear, herd, huddle, inclose, inosculate, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, put together, rake, reunite, run on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, to append, unite, weld). (various references)

Romanian		alãtura (annex, approach, collate, compare, confront, enclose, join, juxtapose), adãuga (accede, add, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, complete, enclose, enlarge, extend, follow up with, prefix, schedule, superinduce, supervene, supplement, swell, tack), învecina. (various references)

Russian		примыкать (abut, side with, verge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		graničiti se (border, bound, verge). (various references)

Spanish		añadir (add, add in, add on, affix, annex, append, by adding, cement, complement, compliment, extol, extoll, incorporate, increase, join on, lend, postfix, put on, put together, sauce, subjoin, tack on, throw in, to append), yuxtaponer (juxtapose), unir (add, aggregate, attach, band together, bonding, cement, conjoin, connect, couple, frame, incorporate, interlock, join, join on, join together, join up, joint, knit together, link, link together, link up, mate, merge, put together, total, unite), lindar con (abut on, border on, bound, flank), estar contiguo a, colindar. (various references)

Swedish		stöta intill (touch), gränsa till varandra (join), gränsa till (border, border on, join, touch). (various references)

Turkish		yan yana olmak, yan yana koymak, katmak (add, affiliate, ally, annex, append, include, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interpolate, join, load, mingle, mix, number, put in, run in, superadd, tack, tinge, weave), eklemek (add, affix, annex, append, attach, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link, link up, piece, put in, put on, put to, run in, slap on, splice, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), bitiştirmek (adhere, agglutinate, connect, joint), bitişik olmak (abut, be touching, border, neighbor, neighbour, touch). (various references)

Ukranian		межувати (abut, affront, approach, border, butt, neighbor upon, neighbour upon, outskirt, touch on, verge), з'�"днувати (agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, glue, inosculate, interlock, joint, knit, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), при�"днувати (add, affiliate, affix, aggregate, associate), прилягати (abut, flank, neighbor upon, neighbour upon, outskirt). (various references)

Welsh		cyffwrdd (meet, touch), cydio (abut, annex, bite, join, take hold). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adjungere, coherebant, coherentem, coherentes, coherentia, coheres. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	confrontare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adjoin": adjoined, adjoining, adjoins, adjoint, adjoints. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adjoin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addonix, adja, Adjan, Adji, adjoint, adjorn, adjou, adjoun, Adjuik, adoic, ajin, ajion, ajoin, Ardouin, Atgofion, Audoin, Audouin, Dajani. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adjoin" (pronounced ujoy"n)
3	-j oy" n	conjoin, enjoin, join, rejoin.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-j-n-o"
	-1 letter: danio.
	-2 letters: djin, dona, jiao, join, naoi, nodi.
	-3 letters: ado, aid, ain, and, ani, din, don, ion, jin, nod.
	-4 letters: ad, ai, an, do, id, in, jo, na, no, od, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-j-n-o"
	+1 letter: adjoins, adjoint.
	+2 letters: adjoined, adjoints.
	+3 letters: adjoining, jaborandi.
	+4 letters: adjourning, adjunction, adjuration, jaborandis, jaguarondi, jargonized, jeoparding.
	+5 letters: adjunctions, adjurations, jaguarondis, journalized, nonjudicial.
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