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1lie adjacent to — index contact (touch) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2adjacent — adj. VERBS ▪ be, be situated, lie, stand ▪ The vineyards of Verzy lie adjacent to those of Verzenay. ADVERB ▪ directly, immediately …
3Adjacent — Ad*ja cent, a. [L. adjacens, centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. The adjacent forest. B. Jonson. [1913… …
4Adjacent — Ad*ja cent, a. [L. adjacens, centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. The adjacent forest. B. Jonson. [1913… …
5adjacent — [ə jā′sənt] adj. [L adjacens, prp. of adjacere, to lie near < ad , to + jacere, to lie, throw: see JET1] near or close (to something); adjoining adjacently adv. SYN. ADJACENT things may or may not be in actual contact with each other, but they …
6adjacent — (adj.) early 15c., from L. adiacentem (nom. adiacens) lying at, prp. of adiacere lie at, border upon, lie near, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + iacere to lie, rest, lit. to throw (see JET (Cf. jet) (v.)), with …
7adjacent — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ next to or adjoining something else. DERIVATIVES adjacency noun. ORIGIN from Latin adjacere lie near to …
8adjacent — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Latin; Anglo French, ajesaunt, from Latin adjacent , adjacens, present participle of adjacēre to lie near, from ad + jacēre to lie; akin to Latin jacere to throw more at jet Date: 15th… …
9adjacent — ad|ja|cent [əˈdʒeısənt] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: , present participle of adjacere to lie near , from ad to + jacere to lie ] a room, building, piece of land etc that is adjacent to something is next to it ▪ We stayed in adjacent… …
10adjacent — [15] Adjacent and adjective come from the same source, the Latin verb jacere ‘throw’. The intransitive form of this, jacēre, literally ‘be thrown down’, was used for ‘lie’. With the addition of the prefix ad , here in the sense ‘near to’, was… …
