词汇 | contiguous |
释义 | contiguous adjective formaluk /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/ us /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/ next to or touching another, usually similar, thing: 相近的,相邻的;毗邻的;互相连接的 contiguous with/toThe two states are contiguous with/to each other, but the laws are quite different.这两个州相毗邻,但其法律却大不相同。 Synonym neighbouringUK at the side of besideCome sit beside me. next toYour glasses are on the table next to my tea. alongCars were parked along the road. alongsideBikes shared the road alongside cars and mopeds. againstWe pushed the bed against the wall. Next to and beside abreast adjacency adjacent adjacently adjoining against at someone's elbowidiom beside bordering contiguity contiguously neighbour next door next door but oneidiom next door to someone/something non-contiguous on shoulder shoulder to shoulderidiom side Related wordcontiguity Examples of contiguouscontiguous In this framework, conceptual representations are contiguous with the representational forms of perception and action. The tract was coded as contiguous if any of the surrounding tracts exceeded a threshold of 40% poverty. All the defects were either contiguous to the tricuspid annulus (perimembranous) or close to it (separated by the posterior limb of the septomarginal trabeculation). The path from the street to the front door does not cross the exterior space contiguous with the main living space. A large exterior living space is contiguous with the main living space: it is at least 0.40 the size of the main living space. In reality, no party consolidated its hold on a contiguous area, and the frontline was very blurred. For species with a compact vining habit, each contiguous patch of leaves was counted as an individual plant. We divided each grid into contiguous 100-m2 areas circumscribed by the four trap stations at the corners. For example, the hand configuration of the sign me typically assimilates to that of a contiguous predicate in the same clause. While the railroad car mediates between distant locales, the railroad track mediates between contiguous neighbourhoods and divergent social classes. While biseriate, the pits either build two longitudinal chains which are not contiguous, or a more classical row of alternating compressed pits. He took the spaces of agriculture to be contiguous with those of nature, and farming's subjects to be natural history's subjects. Such shocks can be contiguous with rarefaction waves of the same family. The were also slight overlaps on maps of contiguous areas. Chi-square analysis revealed significant associations between contiguous consonants and vowels for eight of the nine possible co-occurrences. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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