contiguous — 영어 사전

형용사

1. Connected; touching; abutting.

   용법

   • 비유적 표현
   • not-comparable
   • sometimes

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance that his secretary's sister happened to be in the council of the 'militants'.

2. Adjacent; neighboring.

   용법

   • not-comparable

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (2)

   1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland 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.

3. Connecting without a break.

   용법

   • not-comparable

   예문

   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.

형용사

1. very close or connected in space or time

   동의어

   immediate

   예문

   contiguous events

   immediate contact

   더 많은 예문 (2)

   the immediate vicinity

   the immediate past

2. connecting without a break; within a common boundary

   동의어

   conterminous

   예문

   the 48 conterminous states

   the contiguous 48 states

3. having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

   동의어

   adjacentconterminousneighboringneighbouring

   예문

   Rhode Island has two bordering states: Massachusetts and Connecticut

   the side of Germany conterminous with France

   더 많은 예문 (2)

   Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho

   neighboring cities