adjoin

adjoin
    v 1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada
         adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn:
         {border}, {adjoin}, {edge}, {abut}, {march}, {butt}, {butt
         against}, {butt on}]
    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" [syn: {touch}, {adjoin}, {meet}, {contact}]
    3: attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
    

Adjoin \Ad*join"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjoined}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Adjoining}.] [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre,
   fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See {Join}, and cf.
   {Adjunct}.]
   To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact
   with; to attach; to append.
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         Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by
         way of note.                             --Watts.
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Adjoin \Ad*join"\ ([a^]d*join"), v. i.
   1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as,
      the houses adjoin.
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            When one man's land adjoins to another's.
                                                  --Blackstone.
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   Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or
         obsolescent.
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   2. To join one's self. [Obs.]
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            She lightly unto him adjoined side to side.
                                                  --Spenser.
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoin":
      abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose,
      attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border,
      border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate,
      complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end,
      enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join,
      join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march,
      marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus,
      postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into,
      saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin,
      suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim,
      unite with, verge, verge upon