abut on
English
Verb
abut on (third-person singular simple present abuts on, present participle abutting on, simple past and past participle abutted on)
- (transitive) To border on.
- His land abuts on the road.
- 1919, Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island, Cosimo, Inc. (2007), →ISBN, page 24:
- 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.
- 1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, →ISBN, page 97:
- The stalked gland (14 — 12-15) has a capital of usually 32 cells radiating from the centre and standing out like an umbrella top. These cells all abut on a central short cell resting on the top of the long stalk cell.
- 2007, Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209:
- Now the two bounding notes of an enharmonic tetrachord of the relevant sort will indeed both be the lowest notes of pykna when the tetrachords are put together in conjunction; but the higher of them can never abut on a pyknon in the case envisaged here, where the tone is introduced to disjoin the tetrachords.
Translations
to border on
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