What's the difference between adjoin and affix?

Adjoin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
  • (v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
  • (v. i.) To join one's self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (2) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (3) The mutant set constructed has either AAU or AAC as codon three in the gene with each possible adjoining 3' base.
  • (4) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
  • (5) In order to study the interactions between serotonergic mechanism and electrical stimulation of the mesencephalic central gray substance, rats were trained to lever-press for terminating aversive electric stimuli applied at the Periaqueductal gray and adjoining tectum of the mesencephalon.
  • (6) This well differentiated mass within the medulla adjoined a dedifferentiated endophytic extension of the tumor into the fourth ventricle which had seeded into the cerebellar cortex and the cauda equina.
  • (7) Pro-IL-1 beta is found dispersed in the cytoplasm, and there are no basic amino acid residues or other commonly recognized processing sites adjoining the mature N-terminus.
  • (8) That is, the primary auditory area receives projections not only from adjacent lateral and medial cortical regions but also from adjoining rostral and caudal cortical regions.
  • (9) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (10) A sharply circumscribed, vascular, connective tissue mass which replaced the cortex of several adjoining cerebral gyri is described.
  • (11) In order to investigate the neural encoding of glutamate in the primate, recordings were made from 190 taste responsive neurons in the primary taste cortex and adjoining orbitofrontal cortex taste area in macaques.
  • (12) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
  • (13) The owner of a DIY shop adjoining the former Maoist centre‚ now an Algerian restaurant‚ said his father used to own the building in question, but sold it shortly before Balakrishnan's commune opened in 1976.
  • (14) The nonexposed population was divided into two control groups the first group (N1) includes 37,990 people living in the mass treatment villages and the other group (N2) consists of 43,445 people living in the adjoining villages without mass treatment.
  • (15) In two cases we also observed criteria which could indicate that these tumors were malignant: the tumors had infiltrated the adjacent spleen and adjoining lymphnode or displayed a destroyed capsula.
  • (16) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
  • (17) Electron microscopy discloses the presence of sensory nerve endings within the parts of the tunica adventitia adjoining the preponderantly elastic zone of the internal carotid artery.
  • (18) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
  • (19) The intrinsic connections are disposed predominantly in a horizontal or oblique direction and within the laminae of origin, but there are fibres passing between adjoining laminae and between layers III and V and VI.
  • (20) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.

Affix


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.
  • (v. t.) To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.
  • (v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.
  • (v. t.) To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground.
  • (n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
  • (2) A device for computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous punctures that is not affixed to the patient and can be used even when the gantry is tilted was developed and tested.
  • (3) We propose a linguistic analysis of the correlation in terms of Kiparsky's (1982, 1985) level-ordering model plus an additional ordering condition on affixes: default (regular) affixes cannot serve as input to compounding processes.
  • (4) The correlation was similar if the meter was affixed instead directly to the scalp with collodion gel, and the clinical reliability improved.
  • (5) A locking mechanism with a suture affixed to the distal portion of the mushroom tip is described.
  • (6) The group antigen did not affix to mouse erythrocytes in vivo.
  • (7) By contrast, monolayer-coated dimyristoyl-PC magnetic structures are inferior with respect to both their reactivation potency and their ability to strongly affix cytochrome-c oxidase and to improve the thermal stability of the enzyme.
  • (8) The Antelope on Mitcham Road has a choice of three open fires where you can affix your undergarments.
  • (9) Photos of the first president hang from branches, have been affixed to tea stalls, and even encircle a giant banner showing Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dressed as Hitler.
  • (10) Radiopaque markers of 4 mm diameter were affixed to the pharyngeal wall by suction.
  • (11) Based on longitudinal data from impaired and unimpaired monolingual German-speaking children, we find a striking, statistically significant correlation: plural affixes that are used in overregularizations, namely -n or -s, are left out within compounds.
  • (12) An external localizing device, consisting of a series of tubes visible on MR, is affixed to an individually fitted thermoplastic mask.
  • (13) In this study the transverse flexural stiffnesses of five preformed arch wires were quantified in each of three activation directions at five separate sites on simulated dental arches to which appliances were affixed.
  • (14) In previous studies it was shown that fixed platelets bearing covalently-bound fibrinogen participate passively in release-related aggregation, and that thrombospondin is the released compound which specifically and selectively recognizes the affixed fibrinogen.
  • (15) The revisions were performed not for aseptic loosening but for causes in which all the implants were securely affixed to bone.
  • (16) The in vitro experiment involved palladium 103 seeds placed into a Silastic seed holder, which was affixed into standard 14-mm gold eye plaques.
  • (17) Availability of distinctive cues affixed on the objects' sides facilitated solution of the symmetrical orientations.
  • (18) RNA polymerase bound last to form a preinitiation complex, but it was less stably affixed than any of the factors.
  • (19) While affixing your e-signature to an online petition is a new and somewhat direct way to "petition your government for a redress of grievances", I am most concerned with advocating for more immediate and effective manners of protest.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The end of the paper tax disc Facebook Twitter Pinterest After more than 90 years affixed to British motorists’ cars, the tax disc is no longer needed from today.