单词 | adjacent |
释义 | adjacentadj.n. A. adj. 1. Next to or very near something else; neighbouring; bordering, contiguous; adjoining. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > adjacent joiningc1385 joinantc1405 adjacentc1425 adjoinant1429 adject?a1475 adjoined?1556 adjoining1577 conjoining1579 bystanding1622 annexed1634 verging1796 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 41 (MED) Hit did grete harme yn townys neir adiacent. ?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 60 (MED) Þe fomynge wawes of the adiacente see. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 165 (MED) This myracle..Was at Tuskan, to Gasceygne adiacent. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxivv [He] warred on other Royalmes adiacent. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 89 Pairtis neir adiacent vnto him. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 220 A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense Of the adiacent Wharfes. View more context for this quotation 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 6 The Houses adjacent, and those which are opposite. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. iv. 134 Those parts of Essex, Surrey and Kent which lye adjacent to London. 1795 J. Barlow Hist. Eng. 1765–95 II. 156 The adjacent inhabitants had assembled in arms. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 20 Furnishing ourselves with provisions at the adjacent inn. 1879 tr. T. A. L. Du Moncel Telephone 16 The adjacent poles of the two rods are of opposite polarity. 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. v. 263 Chester Wilcox lived..about five miles off in an adjacent valley. 1984 T. Clancy Hunt for Red October ii. 20 A copy of the list was made on the adjacent printer. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 Feb. a23/2 Between games, with the bus in a parking lot adjacent to the soccer field, players and coaches sat with laptops. 2. Of non-material things: closely related; connected. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Iv The pleasure which is not adiacent to vertue..is to bee fledde. 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 170 The imperfection and sinne which is adiacent and concomitant to the vertuous actions of iust men. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iii. xxi. §5 118 With a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Talk 'Talk' and 'interpret' being by no means identical or adjacent notions. 1922 M. McC. Read tr. P. de Tourtoulon Philos. in Devel. of Law ii. xiii. 459 Can observation fix the limits of the idea of law and distinguish it from every other adjacent idea? 1992 B. S. Turner Regulating Bodies (2002) iv. 141 The normal scientist rarely migrates between academic fields but at the very most drifts between adjacent problems. 3. As a postmodifier: that is physically next to or very near the specified location or thing. In extended use: characterized by some aspects of, or similar to, the specified concept, phenomenon, etc. ΚΠ 1949 Child Health Services Georgia (Amer. Acad. Pediatrics) iv. 18 Half of these out-patient departments were in the Metro-adjacent Counties. 1981 N.Y. Times 10 May r47/5 Beverly Hills adjacent. Hollywood writer desires to sublet luxurious exquisitely furnished 2 BR apt. 1993 Jrnl. Periodontol. 64 730 The treatment also affected the proximal surface of the defect-adjacent tooth. 2011 @ZambianNOTNaij 6 May in twitter.com (accessed 16 Mar. 2021) Stereotypes are racism adjacent in my opinion. 2020 Business Mirror (Philippines) (Nexis) 27 Dec. [The films] were intended to be straight-up thrillers, but..they ended up as horror-adjacent black comedies. B. n. 1. That which is adjacent; an adjoining thing or part; = adjacency n. 2. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near neighbour?c1225 adjacenta1456 neighbourer1612 adjoiner1628 adjacency1646 a1456 tr. Secreta Secret. (Marmaduke, Ashm. 59) (1977) 221 For breking of covenantz of princes, with þer adiacentz, haþe beon þe desolacion of hem-self. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Miiij It is an adiacent, or a worde adioyned. 1566 Bk. Discipline in Wks. J. Knox (1848) II. 203 The North Ylis of the Sky, and the Lewis, with thair adjacentis. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xxxii. 721 The LXX. rather expressed the adiacents, then the place it selfe. 1635 R. Shelford Five Pious Disc. 220 He [sc. God] hath no adjacent, no equall, no corrivall. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 43 The whole Place and its Adjacents. 1867 Proc. Meteorolog. Soc. 3 142 The values thus obtained for the cardinal points and their adjacents are inserted in Table I. 1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe (new ed.) App. 274 Novelty..doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused. 1940 Amer. Anthropologist 42 304 Every other red starts to float at one point, and their adjacents start two passages of the weft beyond. 2003 B. Lane Creative Techniques Color Photogr. v. 52 A filter..will lighten its own color's adjacents (those colors immediately to either side of it on the color chart). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > assistant assistant?1541 adjacent1600 help1645 helper1686 aide1762 asst1782 tenter1894 offsider1904 runabout1957 ancillary1962 gofer1967 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. xlvii. 1013 Some of my ten adjacents or suffraganes [L. decem legatis], whome our ancestors thought good to give unto their Generals in the war. 1602 S. Patrick tr. J. de Hainault Estate of Church 174 It was..ordained that wheresoeuer they [sc. priests] went, they should haue for adiacents [Fr. adioint] some of the Cleargie who might lie in theyr Chambers to witnesse their chastitie. 3. Something connected or concomitant to another thing; a complement or adjunct. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies purtenancea1382 accessory1429 retinue?a1439 accessaryc1475 companion1533 annexe?1541 hanger-ona1555 supply1567 copemate1581 complement1586 fere1593 adjective1597 annexment1604 annexary1605 attendant1607 adherence1610 adjacent1610 wife1616 fellower1620 coincident1626 attendancy1654 associate1658 appanage1663 conjunct1667 perquisite1667 familiar1668 satellite1702 accompaniment1709 accompanying1761 side dish1775 obbligato1825 shadow1830 rider1859 gadget1917 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xix. xiii. 770 Worldly and temporall peace..together with all the adiacents of this peace, as the visible light, the spirable ayre, the potable water. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxvi. 196 Whence it is plain, that heat is onely an adjacent to our life, and its concomitant token, but not the primary foundation thereof. ?1908 Rep. Surveyor Gen. Dominion Lands 1907–8 13 in Ann. Rep. Topogr. Surv. 1906–7 (Canada Dept. Interior) As an adjacent to the press, a machine for graining zinc plates had to be set up. 1942 Warren (Pa.) Times-Mirror 14 Mar. 3/8 The training center will be operated as an adjacent to the Middletown depot and will be used for teaching civilians to overhaul and repair army planes. 2000 D. Dent Insect Pest Managem. (ed. 2) v. 173/1 In this way, the breeding of pest resistant plant material is considered as an adjacent to the main breeding programme. Compounds adjacent angle n. Mathematics an angle positioned side by side with another one; spec. each of the pair of angles formed on a straight line by another line which meets or intersects it. ΚΠ 1645 T. Urquhart Trissotetras sig. F One of the Ambients with an Adjacent angle is given, and the subtendent, an opposite angle, or the other containing side is required. 1723 J. Hodgson Syst. Math. I. iv. iv. 57 The Radius, the Sine of the Hypothenuse, the Sine of one of the adjacent Angles, and the Sine of the opposite Side or Leg, are directly proportional. 1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 317 The sum of the two adjacent angles dac and dab is equal to two right angles. 1916 W. Wells & W. W. Hart Plane & Solid Geom. 15 The sum of all the successive adjacent angles around a point on one side of a straight line is one straight angle. 2007 R. N. Aufmann et al. Algebra (ed. 4) iii. 208 Adjacent angles of intersecting lines are supplementary angles. 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