| 单词 | adjacent |
| 释义 | adjacent (once / 732 pages) adj Adjacent means close to or near something. You may consider the people up and down your street to be neighbors, but your next-door neighbor is the person who lives in the house or apartment adjacent to yours. Adjacent can refer to two things that touch each other or have the same wall or border. And the adjective is often followed by the preposition to: Her office is adjacent to mine. This word is from Latin adjacere "to lie near," from the prefix ad- "to" plus jacere "to lie, throw." WORD FAMILYadjacent: adjacency, adjacently, nonadjacent+/adjacency: adjacencies USAGE EXAMPLESIn an adjacent anteroom, there’s a stationary bike, 15-pound weights, a multipurpose fitness tower and a TRX suspension trainer hanging on the door. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The parking lots adjacent to the Rose Bowl open at 4 a.m. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) This year, the excavation of an adjacent settlement preserved in the river silts threw open another window on to life in Bronze Age Britain. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching Syn conterminous, contiguous, neighboring connected joined or linked together 2adj nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space had adjacent rooms Syn next, side by side close at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other 3adj near or close to but not necessarily touching lands adjacent to the mountains New York and adjacent cities Syn close, near, nigh not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances |
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