Synonyms of the word abut


ABUTADJOIN - BORDER - BUTT - CONTACT - EDGE - MARCH - MEET - TOUCH

abut

  • v. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project;…
  • v. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to; to support by an abutment.
  • v. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

adjoin

  • v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…

border

  • n. The outer edge of something.
  • n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
  • n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
  • n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
  • n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
  • v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
  • v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
  • v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

butt

  • n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
  • n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
  • n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
  • n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  • v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
  • v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
  • n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
  • n. A thrust in fencing.
  • n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
  • n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
  • n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
  • n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
  • n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

contact

  • n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • n. The establishment of communication (with).
  • n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • n. (informal) A contact lens.
  • n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
  • n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
  • v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
  • v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

edge

  • n. The boundary line of a surface.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
  • n. An advantage.
  • n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
  • n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  • n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
  • n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  • n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
  • v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  • v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  • v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

march

  • n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  • n. A political rally or parade.
  • n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
  • n. Steady forward movement or progression.
  • n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  • v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
  • v. To go to war; to make military advances.
  • n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
  • n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  • n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
  • v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
  • n. (obsolete) Smallage.

meet

  • v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
  • v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
  • v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
  • v. To satisfy; to comply with.
  • v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  • n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
  • n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
  • n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. A meeting.
  • n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
  • n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
  • adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

touch

  • v. Primarily physical senses.
  • v. Primarily non-physical senses.
  • v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  • v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  • n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  • n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  • n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  • n. A little bit; a small amount.
  • n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  • n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  • n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  • n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  • n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  • n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  • n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
  • n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
  • n. The children's game of tag.
  • n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  • n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  • n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

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