Beside vs Adjacent - What's the difference?
beside | adjacent |
Next to; at the side of.
Not relevant to.
Besides; in addition to.
* Alexander Pope:
otherwise; else
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias :
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 prepositions the difference between beside and adjacent
is that beside is next to; at the side of while adjacent is next to; adjacent to; beside.As an adverb beside
is otherwise; else.As an adjective adjacent is
lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.As a noun adjacent is
something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.beside
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- A small table beside the bed
- That is beside the point
- To all beside , as much an empty shade, / An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with besides . See .Derived terms
* besidely * beside oneself * beside the point * besidesAdverb
(-)- Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
See also
* para-Statistics
*Anagrams
*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