Adjacent vs Neighbore - What's the difference?
adjacent | neighbore |
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
* 1980 , Faber Birren, The textile colorist
* 2011 , Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)
As nouns the difference between adjacent and neighbore
is that adjacent is something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite while neighbore is obsolete form of neighbour.As an adjective adjacent
is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.As a preposition adjacent
is next to; adjacent to; beside.adjacent
English
Adjective
(-)- Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
- The picture is on the adjacent page .
Synonyms
* (lying next to) abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearAntonyms
* (lying next to) apart, distant, nonadjacentNoun
(en noun)- Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents .
- Picking out the opposite, the adjacent , and the hypotenuse