Contiguous vs Abutted - What's the difference?
contiguous | abutted |
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
(abut)
To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project; to terminate; to be contiguous; to meet, of an estate, country, etc.
To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to; to support by an abutment.
As an adjective contiguous
is connected; touching; abutting.As a verb abutted is
(abut).contiguous
English
Adjective
(-)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
Derived terms
* contiguousnessSee also
* conterminousReferences
* *abutted
English
Verb
(head)abut
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Alternative forms
* abuttVerb
(abutt)- It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
- His land abuts on the road.