Adjoining

Definition: Adjoining

Adjoining

Adjective

1. Having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho".

Date "adjoining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Adjoining

Synonyms: abutting (adj), adjacent (adj), bordering(a) (adj), conterminous (adj), contiguous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nearness	Adjective: near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Clever	Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	British regional geology : the Hampshire Basin and adjoining areas (reference) Description of Patagonia and the Adjoining Parts of South America (reference) Hydrogeology of an Arid Region: The Arabian Gulf and Adjoining Areas (reference) New Orleans Citymap: Including Gretna, Harahan, Kenner, Westwego and Adjoining Communities (reference) Phoenix & Adjoining Cities: City Map (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : An open air ward, adjoining the main courtyard.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, Elma. Modern building adjoining power company building and across the street from 20444-C.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Chadron State Park recreational area adjoining Pine Ridge project. Dawes County, Nebraska.Credit: Library of Congress.		Farmer's wife in her kitchen near Auburn, California. Notice the electric stove and wood or coal range adjoining. This is a common sight in this section which is generally electrified but where electricity rates are higher than many farmers can afford to.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Shacktown adjoining city dump along riverfront. Dubuque, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress.		Construction on Ford bomber plant from front yard of adjoining farm. Near Ypsilanti, Michigan.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Charlottesville, Virginia. Stables adjoining Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.Credit: Library of Congress.		St. Phillip's Church, Charleston, South Carolina. Buildings adjoining churchyard I.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Station WNEW, 565 5th Ave., New York City. Small adjoining office.Credit: Library of Congress.		Unhappy position of a loyal gentleman taking his bath while an amateur orchestra is practising "God save the King" in an adjoining room.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Saul Bellow	Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The German Government shall place at the disposal of the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all information now in its possession concerning the channels and adjoining waters between the Baltic and the North Sea. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	The bewildered singer searched through the heap of music lying on an adjoining table, but it was not there, either.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The adjoining cell was tenanted by a very poor young man who was called Monsieur Marius.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Because of the laser's precision, damage to healthy, adjoining tissue is reduced or eliminated. (references)
		Traced to index case-patient who worked in forest adjoining the city. Epidemic spread through families and hospitals. (references)
Business		KESC is responsible to supply power to Karachi, its suburbs and adjoining parts in Baluchistan. (references)
		The authority also provides air traffic control services over the entire Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. (references)
		Among these, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) owns and manages 5 international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves at Defense airfields and provides air traffic services over the entire Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. (references)
Civil Liberties	Nigeria	For example, the Catholic Church in Zamfara State has been unable to retake possession of a clinic that was confiscated during a period of military rule in the 1970's. Renewal of the CO for the church building was approved; however, the Church has been unable to obtain a CO to reoccupy the clinic building and the adjoining land. (references)
Economic History	Kuwait	This treaty also established the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone, an area of about 5,180 sq. km. (2,000 sq. mi.) adjoining Kuwait's southern border. (references)
	Bolivia	Bolivia's weakness was demonstrated during the War of the Pacific (1879-83), when it lost its seacoast and the adjoining rich nitrate fields to Chile. (references)
Human Rights	Bolivia	The new center, along with the adjoining old center that was refurbished, has a capacity to house 150 detainees, instead of only 50 previously. (references)
	India	More than 87,000 persons live under poor conditions in relief camps in Assam's Kokrajhar, Gosaigaon, and adjoining districts as a result of the ongoing violence between Bodos and Santhals. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	This decision, it is understood, will preclude all contention among the individual claimants, as it seems that the Scoodiac and its northern branch bound the grants of land which have been made by the respective adjoining Governments.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Some legislation appears to be called for as well by our own interest as by comity to the adjoining British provinces.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Adjoining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 48.39% of the time. "Adjoining" is used about 465 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 (-ing form)	48.39%	225	20,080
Adjective (general or positive)	44.09%	205	21,272
Noun (singular)	5.38%	25	69,787
Noun (proper)	2.15%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	465	N/A

Expressions using "adjoining": abutting adjacent adjoining borderingprenominal conterminous coterminous contiguous ♦ adjoining countries ♦ adjoining room ♦ adjoining rooms ♦ index to adjoining sheets. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "adjoining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aangrensend (adjacent), belendend (adjacent, neighbouring). (various references)

Albanian		fqinj (conterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door, vicinal). (various references)

Arabic		‏محاذ, ‏مجاور (contiguous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door). (various references)

Bulgarian		съседен (adjacent, conterminal, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, vicinal), граничещ (conterminal, contiguous). (various references)

Chinese		毗邻 (Adjacent, Adjacently, Adjoin, Adjoined, bordered, Bordering). (various references)

Czech		vedlejší (accessory, accidental, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), sousedící. (various references)

Danish		tilstødende værelser (adjacent rooms, adjoining rooms), stoerre militaere manoevrer,som finder sted i det tilstoedende havomraade og luftrum (major military manoeuvres which take place in the adjoining sea area and air space), nabo (adjoining owner, borderer, frontage, neighbour). (various references)

Dutch		belendend (adjacent, contiguous, juxtaposed, neighbouring), aanliggend (adjacent, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearby, neighbouring), aangrenzend (adjacent, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearby, neighbouring). (various references)

Esperanto		tuŝanta (adjacent, neighbouring). (various references)

Finnish		rajakkain oleva (contiguous), jonkin rajalla oleva (bordering). (various references)

French		attenant (adjacent), adjacent (adjacent). (various references)

Frisian		neistlizzend (adjacent, nearby, neighbouring). (various references)

German		angrenzend (abutting, adjacent, adjoin, bordering, contiguous, flanking, juxtaposed, nearby, neighboring, neighbouring), anstoßend (adjacent, nearby, neighbouring), benachbart (adjacent, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearby, neighboring, neighbouring, next door). (various references)

Greek		διπλανός (next to). (various references)

Hebrew		�'ובל (contiguous, limitrophic). (various references)

Hungarian		szomszédos (adjacent, in contiguity, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, to abut). (various references)

Italian		limitrofo (abutting, adjacent, border, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring), adiacente (adjacent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		隣接した (adjacent, neighboring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		り�"せつした (adjacent, neighboring). (various references)

Korean		� �함. (various references)

Manx		sheeynt rish, quaiyltagh, cheualagh (lateral). (various references)

Pig Latin		adjoiningay

Portuguese		contíguo (adjacent, contiguous, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next friday), confinante (adjacent, conterminal, coterminous, limitation). (various references)

Romanian		alãturat (adjacent, annexed, enclosed, herewith, side by side), adiacent (adjacent), învecinat (adjacent, close, contiguous, limitrophe, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door). (various references)

Russian		прилегающий (contiguous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		susedni (adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door, vicinal), granični (border, contiguous, limit, limitary). (various references)

Spanish		contiguo (adjacent, contiguous, nearby, neighbouring, next), vecino (adjacent, adjoining owner, borderer, citizen, denizen, frontage, local, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, resident), adyacente (adjacent, contacted, nearby, neighbouring). (various references)

Swedish		angränsande (adjacent, contiguous, next). (various references)

Turkish		yan yana (abreast, alongside, at close quarters, cheek by jowl, side by side), bitişik (adjacent, adjoined, attached, close, conjunct, connate, connected, contiguous, juxtaposed to, near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door). (various references)

Turkmen		garюy (against). (various references)

Ukranian		сусідній (adjacent, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, surrounding), суміжний (abutting, adjacent, communicating, conterminal, contiguous, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), що межу�", що приляга�" (clinging). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếp giáp (conterminous, coterminous), sát nách (next), kế bên, gần kề (adjacent), bên cạnh (contiguous, near-by, neighbouring, next). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	finitimae, finitimi, finitimus, iuncta, iunctae, iunctaeque, iunctas, iuncti, iunctis, iuncto, iunctus, iuxta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Adjoining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adioyning, adjining, Adjoudi, ajoining, audioning. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adjoining" (pronounced ujoy"ning)
5	-j oy" n i ng	enjoining, joining, rejoining.
4	-oy" n i ng	coining.
3	-n i ng	abandoning, abstaining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-j-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: gonidia, joining.
	-3 letters: adjoin, aiding, dining, djinni, gaijin, ganoid, indign, indigo, jading, niding.
	-4 letters: anion, danio, dingo, djinn, doing, donga, donna, gonad, gonia, inion, iodin, jingo, jinni, ninja, oidia.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, anon, dago, dang, ding, djin, dona, dong, gadi, gain, goad, inia, jiao, jinn, join, naoi, nidi, nodi, nona.
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