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Adjoining vs Conjoining - What's the difference?

adjoining | conjoining |

As verbs the difference between adjoining and conjoining

is that adjoining is present participle of lang=en while conjoining is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective adjoining

is being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room.

As a noun conjoining is

an act by which things are conjoined.

adjoining

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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 , chapter= , isbn= , page= 46 , site = , url = http://openlibrary.org/works/OL3535421W/History_of_the_Knaggs_family_of_Ohio_and_Michigan , 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."}}

    Synonyms

    * adjacent * bordering

    Antonyms

    * separated

    Verb

    (head)

    • conjoining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act by which things are conjoined.
  • * 1981 , Yoel L. Arbeitman, ?Allan R. Bomhard, Bono Homini Donum (page 127)
    • Then too, a language may choose more than one phonetic way of representing these conjoinings ; some of these ways may sound the same as some other things that are not just plain conjoinings.