So "adjacent houses" actually means "properties that touch each other": the two properties share a side, not just a corner (vertex). The opposite: between the two houses there is an area of land (a garden?) owned by someone else.
I know the word "adjacent" means "next to", "adjoining" in terms of the space. Then, is there any adjective that means "adjacent" in terms of time? (Say we have A, B ...
The text is from an archaeology paper: Adjacent the site and to the east is a historical farmhouse. I was wondering whether this is a normal collocation or whether 'to' is missing after 'adjacent'. What do you think?
"Beside" and "next to" indicate that the object is directly adjacent to the subject, eg 'my phone is beside me', 'he lives next to me'. However, "near" and "close to" does not indicate this, and merely shows that it is not far away. I might say that I leave "near" or "close to" my friend who lives at the other end of the street, but I wouldn't say I lived "next to" him.
Suppose that the atoms in this question have the same radius and the distance between adjacent atoms. If you would have a time, list the words meaning "nearby" in the order from the closest to the farthest.
If A is beside B, we can also say 'A and B are side by side', because the side of A is next to the side of B. In the case of a street, if they are side by side, they must be on the same side of the street, and there must be nothing, except perhaps a small gap, between them. In other words, the buildings are adjacent. On the other hand, if they are across the street from each other, then their ...