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Adjoined vs Attached - What's the difference?

adjoined | attached |

As verbs the difference between adjoined and attached

is that adjoined is past tense of adjoin while attached is past tense of attach.

As an adjective attached is

in a romantic or sexual relationship.

adjoined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adjoin)

    • adjoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be in contact or connection with.
    • The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
  • (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).
    • \textbf{Q}\left(\sqrt{2}\right) can be obtained from \textbf{Q} by adjoining \sqrt{2} to \textbf{Q} .

    Derived terms

    * adjoining

    Related terms

    * adjunction

    attached

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (attach)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a romantic or sexual relationship.
    • As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
    I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.
  • (botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
    • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
  • Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (sharing two walls) detached, semiattached