Adjoining vs Conjoined - What's the difference?
adjoining | conjoined |
Being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room .
* {{quote-book, year=1902
, author = Robert B. Ross (ed.)
, title = History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan
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, page= 46
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, accessdate = 2013-07-22
, passage= The location was described to be "on the lower side of the river, adjoining land owned by Whitmore Knaggs and on the upper side by lands not yet granted."}}
Joined together, as with conjoined twins, or in matrimony.
(conjoin)
As adjectives the difference between adjoining and conjoined
is that adjoining is being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room while conjoined is joined together, as with conjoined twins, or in matrimony.As verbs the difference between adjoining and conjoined
is that adjoining is present participle of lang=en while conjoined is past tense of conjoin.adjoining
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* adjacent * borderingAntonyms
* separatedVerb
(head)conjoined
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Adjective
(-)- 1600' ''If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be '''conjoined , I charge you, on your souls, to utter it.'' — Shakespeare, ''Much Ado About Nothing , .
- ...representatives of a loosely conjoined nation...'' - ''Time