abutting
/uh-buht/US // əˈbʌt //UK // (əˈbʌt) //
邻近的,毗邻的,毗连的,相邻的
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Definitions
v.无主动词 verb
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a·but·ted, a·but·ting.
- : to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border: This piece of land abuts on a street.
v.有主动词 verb
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a·but·ted, a·but·ting.
- : to be adjacent to; border on; end at.
- : to support by an abutment.
Synonyms & Antonyms
verbtouch or be next to something
Examples
The main area abuts another 3,000 acres of guided-only, out-of-bounds terrain.
In 1827, a little school was opened in a building at the corner of Gildow-street, abutting upon Marsh-lane, in this town.
Lacking concrete, he'd constructed a roofless stone hut abutting the barn to serve as his manure shed.
All the abutting joints were carefully executed by machinery, the fitting being of the most perfect kind.
These courses formed a kind of inverted vault, abutting, at its edges, upon 214the rock.
The huge barrier of the Malan range, abutting direct on the sea, stopped 162 his way.
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