(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.
Hoist
Definition:
(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
(p. p.) Hoisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(2) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(3) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(4) A large toilet with a changing table and ceiling hoists are the answer to many disabled people’s prayers, however they are a rare sight.
(5) Finally, perhaps with a bit of hindsight, we can see this as JP Morgan being hoisted by its own petard; the complexity of the derivatives it was inventing and selling made them hard to value and rate for risk.
(6) Drogba, his game hoisted for the big occasion, is untouchable.
(7) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(8) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(9) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(10) A few cells are adapted to accommodate hoists, hospital beds, and specialist mattresses.
(11) Down by a goal with less than 15 minutes to play, and struggling just to keep their footing on a frozen field, they might easily have hoisted the white flag.
(12) A mobile calf enclosure was developed which incorporated a hydraulic hoist and sling for the care of calves.
(13) • Pro-Russia demonstrators surrounded government buildings in at least three Ukrainian cities, hoisting Russian flags and chanting against the government in Kiev.
(14) These patient handling tasks were studied using five manual techniques and three hoist-assisted techniques.
(15) At night, if you are quiet, you can hear them whirring from the Hills Hoist.
(16) Eddie Howe Bournemouth manager Considered one of the brightest managerial prospects in English football on the back of his success with Bournemouth, whom he has helped hoist from bottom tier to Premier League over two spells, enduring a trickier period at Burnley in between, and ensuring the Cherries’ top-flight status last term was a fine achievement.
(17) It says something about the difficulties of the old library that a special hoist had to be built to help get nearly a million books out and into the new building "There is one creaky old books lift, but we really feared it wasn't up to the job," Gambles said.
(18) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(19) She boldly says she is not in school because the teachers gave them a day off to do marking and hoists 10 litres of water onto her head, holding a second 5-litre jerry can in her hand, before setting off on the 3km walk home.
(20) A Russian flag was hoisted at the site, where previously there had been clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters, as well as a sign saying “Crimea is Russia”.