Adjacent

(adj.) near or close to but not necessarily touching; 'lands adjacent to the mountains'; 'New York and adjacent cities' .

(adj.) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; 'had adjacent rooms'; 'in the next room'; 'the person sitting next to me'; 'our rooms were side by side' .

(adj.) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; 'Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut'; 'the side of Germany conterminous with France'; 'Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho'; 'neighboring cities' .

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• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The forms of furnaces and means for lining and cooling the hearth and adjacent parts have received great attention. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The mole should be surrounded by a little cell or ring of wax, so that the acid can be applied direct without fear of disorganizing the adjacent skin. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The women and non-combatants were carried to Salamis and various adjacent islands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He secured possession of a port, Amphipolis, and certain gold mines adjacent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When the wireless operator wishes to send a message to another station he listens in, as it is called, by connecting his receiving apparatus with the adjacent antenna and the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He takes Mrs. Snagsby by the hand and leads her aside to an adjacent cask. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The service for which this car is intended is primarily to guard railroads and depots adjacent to railroads. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• On an adjacent island lived a kind of semi-pirate called Alcibiades, who was, and is, a thorough blackguard. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Marlborough Mills and the adjacent dwelling were held under a long lease; they must, if possible, be relet. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The air pressure served to overcome the momentum and to close the chamber and at the same time forced the water received into the air chamber up an adjacent pipe. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them simmering all night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Monsieur Isidor disappeared into his master's adjacent bedroom, bearing off the flowered dressing-gown. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Watson, who was at the receiver in an adjacent room. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In this practice one or more artificial teeth are firmly held in the place of missing teeth by a strong bridge-piece of metal, which at its ends is anchored to the adjacent natural teeth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is thus attracted toward an adjacent electromagnet when cold and is uninfluenced when hot, and as the result motion is produced. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The driving engine and shafting are compactly placed at one end or side of the room, with boilers and kettles conveniently adjacent. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Menai tubular railway bridge, adjacent to the suspension bridge of Telford across the same strait, and already described, was the first example of this type of bridge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Preceptor Albert waited impatiently in an adjacent chamber the return of Bois-Guilbert. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Two fine examples of this type are found, one in a bridge across the Niagara adjacent to the suspension bridge above described and one across the river Forth at Queens Ferry in Scotland. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was the custom of Adrian and myself to go out each day in our skiff to forage in the adjacent country. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Finding ourselves now posted securely, and having a place to retreat to on occasion, we ventured out in parties to scour the adjacent country. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• When the waters of rivers adjacent to towns and cities thus began to be pumped for drinking purposes, _strainers_ and _filters_ of various kinds were invented of necessity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But this was found to be attended with great inconvenience, for the pitch cracked, and electric communication was established between the adjacent wires. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Adjacent to these rooms are several others devoted to physical and mechanical experiments, together with a draughting-room. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The next man adjacent was John Kruesi, afterward engineer of the great General Electric Works at Schenectady. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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