Adhere vs Adjoin - What's the difference?
adhere | adjoin |
To stick fast or , as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
To be in contact or connection with.
(transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
As verbs the difference between adhere and adjoin
is that adhere is to stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura while adjoin is to be in contact or connection with.adhere
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(adher)Antonyms
* cleaveAnagrams
* * ----adjoin
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Verb
(en verb)- The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
- can be obtained from by adjoining to .
