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Adjoining vs Surrounding - What's the difference?

adjoining | surrounding |

As adjectives the difference between adjoining and surrounding

is that adjoining is being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room while surrounding is which surrounds something.

As verbs the difference between adjoining and surrounding

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

As a noun surrounding is

outlaying area; area in proximity to something.

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)

    • surrounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • outlaying area; area in proximity to something
  • environment

    • Synonyms

    * periphery

    Adjective

    (-)
  • which surrounds something