Adjacent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADJACENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• in a right angled triangle, the shorter of the two sides adjacent to a given angle
• That which is adjacent.
• side lying between a specified angle and a right angle in a right-angled triangle
ADJECTIVE:
• next to
• next to or adjoining something else
• (of a pair of angles) formed on the same side of a straight line when intersected by another line.
• near or next (to)
• Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
• nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
• having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
• near or close to but not necessarily touching

Words related to ADJACENT

adjacence21 adjacences22 adjacencies23 adjacency24 adjacently23 adjacents19 conterminant16 conterminate16

Words that contain ADJACENT

adjacents19 adjacently23 coadjacent22 unadjacent20 coadjacents23 nonadjacent21

How to use ADJACENT in a sentence

• And adjacent to this house was a vacant lot on which Great Taylor could see a junk-cart waiting, and perhaps wondering what had become of its master.
• These things had been put down hastily as the students had arrived and hurried at once to secure their seats in the adjacent lecture theatre.
• And then there was another burst of passion, and he kicked out at adjacent chairs and banged the floor.
• The grains of wheat in an ear standing in an adjacent patch were counted and recorded.
• On half a dozen occasions the Boers have threatened to sweep down upon them from the hilly country adjacent, but up to the time of writing nothing serious has occurred.
• In the adjacent counties military law had been proclaimed, and our village was within a mile of the bounds of the disturbed county of Westmeath.
• Their approaches were made by a trench from an adjacent ravine.
• Small fishing-vessels from Biscay, Brittany, and Normandy were in the habit of visiting the coast of Newfoundland and adjacent waters from as early as 1504.
• The pedestrian portion of the procession assembled in the Park, while the vehicles crowded all the adjacent streets.
• Their language was not understood by any person on board, although there were people from most parts adjacent to the coast.
• Ramsay, Marshall, Jones, Girardin, Wirt, historians of the adjacent States, all silent.
• He was lounging in the only piece of furniture the room boasted, except for the table on which a large glass of spirits stood adjacent to the oil lamp.
• Radiating lines in the adjacent cell-plasma suggest that these bodies constitute centres of force.
• Prior to that time my travels had been confined to the trips away to school and to some of the towns adjacent to Marshalltown, and outside of these I knew but little.
• There were times when the road was below the level of the adjacent fields, so deep below that even the hood of the cart was below them, worn as they were by centuries of travel.
• The rank and file of the Fenian force gathered quietly at Eastport, Calais and adjacent towns, and awaited the arrival of their armament.
• Wire entanglements and trenches traversed the roads at intervals, and shell holes filled with water in the adjacent fields showed the road to be within range of the German guns.
• In the more sheltered district south of the Balkans the richer vegetation recalls that of the neighbourhood of Constantinople and the adjacent parts of Asia Minor.
• The house vibrated to the trains in the adjacent underground railway.
• The adjacent planters count their slaves by the hundreds.
• The inhabitants of the secluded village were already a-foot when we proceeded from the parsonage, and men and women from adjacent villages were on the road to join them.
• About Rungpore, Dinajpoor, and other places where the ground is low, they raise the beds where the cane is to be planted four or five feet above the level of the land adjacent.
• The culture of this root extends through the whole of Europe, a large portion of Asia, Australia, the southern and northern parts of Africa, and the adjacent islands.
• This alone, since his acres were broad and since his stock grazed free over thousands of acres lying adjacent to Desert Valley on three sides, was a big task.
• The timbers in adjacent courses are at right angles to each other.

Similar words containing ADJAC without suffix ent

adjacence21 adjacency24 adjacents19 adjacences22 adjacently23 coadjacent22 unadjacent20 adjacencies23 coadjacency28 coadjacents23 nonadjacent21 coadjacencies27

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