Synonym: adjoining, near, neighboring, next to, touching. Similar words: adjustment, Cent., scent, center, per cent, recent, decent, ascent. Meaning: [ə'dʒeɪsənt] adj. 1. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space 2. having a common boundary or edge; touching 3. near or close to but not necessarily touching.
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151. A stride from an adjacent boulder gains the initial crack.
152. There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire.
153. Thus most power stations are built alongside rivers, canals or the sea, while some are also adjacent to coal mines.
154. You look up one entry and are immediately seduced by adjacent items, just out of curiosity.
155. This job was made very difficult by corrosion which had grown adjacent to the brass tubes carrying the head studs.
156. The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy.
157. As the tube folds, the CAMs of the future nervous system change and become different from those of adjacent cells.
158. Less efficient is square packing where the centres of four adjacent spheres form a square.
159. The scheme was evaluated using a matched control sample of cases from adjacent areas.
160. The study was empty; the light came from the adjacent room.
161. The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis.
162. In fact, some day-care centers are purposely built adjacent to senior facilities to encourage the connection.
163. This controls the proximity of any adjacent parts which might be affected by excess heat. 6.
164. An immediately adjacent specimen was snap frozen in the endoscopy suite.
165. He could not remember that, although he could remember Britt-Marie's soft moans coming from the adjacent room.
166. The firm is also doubling its floor space as of June 15 when it adds adjacent offices in Marlborough to its plot.
167. When the crowds later began thinning and the adjacent table cleared, Roquelaure leaned forward over his port glass.
168. Of these about 40 lived in hutted accommodation adjacent to the works, whilst the remainder lived in lodgings in the surrounding villages.
169. The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles.
170. Parents have the option of staying in the kids' rooms or booking an adjacent room.
171. It was originally an overshot wheel of 10' diameter and has left distinct rubbing-marks on the adjacent wall.
172. Non-local workers were transported by plane and housed in large, specially built camps or in adjacent accommodation ships.
173. In this case, however, mutations affecting the expression of any one factor invariably affect two adjacent parts of the flower.
174. For example, the rule of not having two adjacent needles tucking.
175. Pegwell Bay, pleasure-beach adjacent to the resort town of Ramsgate, Kent.
176. Convention center plans call for expanding upon an outdoor parking lot adjacent to, and south of,[www.Sentencedict.com] the existing center.
177. Adjacent to the hotel, guests may dine in the lively garden restaurant overlooking the river.
178. After this Rome became a republic which steadily expanded and absorbed the adjacent peoples and countryside.
179. They were straightened, then cut to length on a saw, drilled, and placed adjacent to their assembly points.
180. There's a scuffle taking place on the adjacent platform: you hear the yells and the fists.
More similar words: adjustment, Cent., scent, center, per cent, recent, decent, ascent, accent, nascent, century, central, recently, incentive, innocent, reticent, eccentric, placement, centurion, senescent, percentage, quiescent, effacement, adolescent, accentuate, licentious, egocentric, translucent, reminiscent, concentrate.