adjacent

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 介词 prep.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
    — Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. not-comparable
    — Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
  2. Just before, after, or facing. not-comparable
    — The picture is on the adjacent page.
  3. Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. figuratively,not-comparable,postpositional
    — It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
介词 prep.
  1. Next to; beside.
    — The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
  2. Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. figuratively
    — While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.

词形变化

adjacents plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Italic *jakēō
Latin iaceō
Latin adiaceō
Latin adiacēnsder.
English adjacent
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Italic *jakēō
Latin iaceō
Latin adiaceō
Latin adiacēnsder.
English adjacent
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Italic *jakēō
Latin iaceō
Latin adiaceō
Latin adiacēnsder.
English adjacent
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
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