Contiguous
[kən'tɪgjʊəs] or [kən'tɪɡjuəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) very close or connected in space or time; 'contiguous events'; 'immediate contact'; 'the immediate vicinity'; 'the immediate past' .
整理:谢尔登--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
布伦达編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Touching, meeting, conterminous, adjacent, adjoining, in contact.
校對:蒂米
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CONTAGIOUS]
整理:玛丽
解釋/意思:
adj. touching adjoining: near.—ns. Contigū′ity Contig′uousness.—adv. Contig′uously.
錄入:米尔顿
例句/造句/用法:
- It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A blue and a red point may surely lie contiguous without any penetration or annihilation. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- An object may be contiguous and prior to another, without being considered as its cause. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- However, there was nothing else to consider than an attempt to scale the trees contiguous to the cliff in an effort to reach the caves above. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Grapplers and boarders lined the contiguous rails of each. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You have the same propension, that I have, in favour of what is contiguous above what is remote. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The rule, by which they proceed, is to pass from one object to what is resembling, contiguous to, or produced by it. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I immediately perceive, that they are contiguous in time and place, and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Being now ready for manufacturing, but requiring more facilities, Edison increased his real-estate holdings by purchasing a large tract of land lying contiguous to what he already owned. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Contiguous objects must have an influence much superior to the distant and remote. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The next point was to secure a joint between contiguous rails such as would permit of the passage of several thousand amperes without introducing undue resistance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In short, the same facility of transition operates not in the same manner upon superior and inferior as upon contiguous and remote. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
錄入:米尔顿