What is the meaning of the word 'abut'

abut - border upon; adjoin


Some sentence examples which use the word 'abut'

  • Many of the employment areas in the Boro directly abut residential areas.
  • The Cheviots do not properly belong to the Uplands, from which they are separated by Liddesdale and other hollows and on which they abut abruptly.
  • Stable at a given point, conceive that point to be traversed by plane in all possible positions, and determine which position gives the greatest obliquity to the total pressure exerted between the portions of the mass which abut against each other at the plane.
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