different between adjacent vs dear

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceo (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceo (“I lie down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??d?e?.s?nt/

Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

   Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

2. Just before, after, or facing.

3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Derived terms

• adjacency
• adjacently
• nonadjacent

Translations

Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)

1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
   • 2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)

     Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse […]

Preposition

adjacent

1. Next to; beside.

2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

References

• Bromwich, Jonah Engel (July 16, 2019) , “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times?^[3], retrieved July 26, 2019

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of eina.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.d????sent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.d????sen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.d??a?sent/

Adjective

adjacent (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adjacent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of aise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?a.s??/

Adjective

adjacent (feminine singular adjacente, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentes)

1. adjacent

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjace?

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”),

Adjective

adjacent m (feminine singular adjacenta, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentas)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /di??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: deer, Deere

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English d?ere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”).

Adjective

dear (comparative dearer, superlative dearest)

1. (generally dated) High in price; expensive.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice, Act IV Scene 1

     There's more depends on this than on the value.

     The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,

     And find it out by proclamation:

     Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.

   • 1902, Briquettes as Fuel in Foreign Countries (report of the United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce):

     This water is sold for 50 cents per ton, which is not dear under the circumstances.

   • 1966, The Beatles, When I'm Sixty-Four

     Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear.

2. Loved; lovable.
   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

3. Lovely; kind.
4. Loving, affectionate, heartfelt

5. Precious to or greatly valued by someone.

6. A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.

7. A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
8. An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.

9. (obsolete) Noble.

Derived terms

Related terms

• darling

Translations

Noun

dear (plural dears)

1. A very kind, loving person.

   My cousin is such a dear, always drawing me pictures.

2. A beloved person.
3. An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.

   Pass me the salt, would you dear?

Synonyms

• (kind loving person): darling

Derived terms

• oh dear
• the dear knows

Translations

Verb

dear (third-person singular simple present dears, present participle dearing, simple past and past participle deared)

1. (obsolete) To endear.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shelton to this entry?)

Derived terms

• bedear

Adverb

dear (comparative more dear, superlative most dear)

1. dearly; at a high price

Interjection

dear

1. Indicating surprise, pity, or disapproval.

   Dear, dear! Whatever were they thinking?

See also

• oh dear
• dear me

Etymology 2

From Middle English dere (“fierce, severe, hard, deadly”), from Old English d?or, d?r (“brave, bold; severe, dire, vehement”), from Proto-Germanic *deuzaz. Cognate with the above

Adjective

dear (comparative more dear, superlative most dear)

1. Severe, or severely affected; sore.
2. (obsolete) Fierce.

Translations

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• 'eard, DARE, Dare, Rade, Read, Reda, ared, dare, rade, read

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?a??]

Verb

dear (present analytic dearann, future analytic dearfaidh, verbal noun dearadh, past participle deartha)

1. To draw (design).

Conjugation

Mutation