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单词 adjacent
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adjacentadj.n.

Brit. /əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/
Forms: late Middle English adiacente, late Middle English–1600s adiacent, late Middle English– adjacent, 1600s ajacent; also Scottish pre-1700 adiasent, pre-1700 agiscent.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French adjacent; Latin adiacent-, adiacēns, adiacēre.
Etymology: < Middle French adjacent (1314 in Old French; French adjacent ) and its etymon classical Latin adiacent-, adiacēns neighbouring, use as adjective of present participle of adiacēre to lie beside or near (to), to be contiguous (to) < ad- ad- prefix + iacēre to lie (see jacent adj.). Compare Old Occitan adjacent, ajassent (1503), Spanish adjacente (1493), Portuguese adjacente (1552), Italian adiacente (a1698). With the use as noun compare classical Latin adiacentia (neuter plural) neighbouring parts or regions, Middle French adjacent dependent estate (1492).With sense B. 2 perhaps compare earlier adjunct n. and later adjutant n.
A. adj.
1. Next to or very near something else; neighbouring; bordering, contiguous; adjoining.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
2. An assistant. Cf. adjutant n. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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