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abut (verb)

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  • abut — ► VERB (abutted, abutting) 1) be next to or share a boundary with. 2) touch or lean on. ORIGIN Old French abouter, from bouter strike, butt …   English terms dictionary

  • abut — /ə bət/ vb abut·ted, abut·ting vi: to touch along a border or with a projecting part used with on, upon, or against the land abut s on the road vt: to border on: reach or touch with an end two lots that abut each other …   Law dictionary

  • abut — verb (abutted; abutting) Etymology: Middle English abutten, from Anglo French aboter, abuter, partly from Old French aboter to border on, from a (from Latin ad ) + bout blow, end, from boter to strike; partly from Old French abuter to come to an… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • abut — verb /əˈbʌt/ a) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project; to terminate; to be contiguous; to meet. In a …   Wiktionary

  • abut on — verb To border on. The fronts of the houses abut on the pathway, which is about four feet wide, and are unequally places, following the contour of the ground …   Wiktionary

  • abut — verb two rows of forsythia abut one another where the driveway meets the sidewalk Syn: adjoin, be adjacent to, butt against, border, neighbor, join, touch, meet, reach, be contiguous with …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • abut — UK [əˈbʌt] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms abut : present tense I/you/we/they abut he/she/it abuts present participle abutting past tense abutted past participle abutted formal to be next to or touching an area or building …   English dictionary

  • abut — a|but [ ə bʌt ] verb intransitive or transitive FORMAL to be next to or touching an area or building: abut on/onto something: houses abutting onto the park …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • abut — also abut on verb (T) technical if one piece of land or a building abuts another it is next to it or touches one side of it …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • abut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. touch, border (on). See contact. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. border on, adjoin, be adjacent to; see join 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. border on, lean on, adjoin, end on, conjoin, juxtapose. IV… …   English dictionary for students

  • abut — [[t]əbʌ̱t[/t]] abuts, abutting, abutted VERB When land or a building abuts something or abuts on something, it is next to it. [FORMAL] [V on n] One edge of the garden abutted on an old entrance to the mine... [V n] He was born in 1768 in the… …   English dictionary

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