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abut

əˈbət
WordNet
The lump of concretion has abutted wood and therefore shows the structure of wood. Concretion.
The lump of concretion has abutted wood and therefore shows the structure of wood. Concretion.
  1. (v) abut
    lie adjacent to another or share a boundary "Canada adjoins the U.S.","England marches with Scotland"
Illustrations
The concretion has abutted rope, so that a piece of rope is clearly included in the concretion.
The concretion has abutted rope, so that a piece of rope is clearly included in the concretion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. abut
    To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate; rest: with on, upon, or against before the object: as, his land abuts upon mine; the building abuts on the highway; the bridge abuts against the solid rock.
  2. abut
    In ship-building, same as butt
  3. abut
    To cause to terminate against or in contiguity with; project, or cause to impinge upon.
  4. abut
    Sometimes shortened to but.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Abut
    a-but′ to end: to border (on)
  2. (pr.p) Abut
    abut′ting; pa.p. abut′ted
Quotations
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
Brian Tracy
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. abouter, aboter,; cf. F. aboutir, and also abuter,; a,L. ad,) + OF. boter, buter, to push: cf. F. bout, end, and but, end, purpose

Usage in the news

As a counselor at Hollywood Forever , a sixty-four-acre cemetery abutting Paramount Studios, Ilania Hofler had guided Maurice Mills's survivors through the logistical and emotional difficulties of interment. theatlantic.com

Video submitted by Veronica Hamann of a parking lot abutting. lp.com

Officials say Korhonen cut down trees on his own land then harvested timber on about 10 acres of town land that does not abut his land. therepublic.com

(AP) — Police say a sport utility vehicle hauling a trailer crashed into a bridge abutment in central Pennsylvania, killing two people. lewistownsentinel.com

As a counselor at Hollywood Forever, a sixty-four-acre cemetery abutting Paramount Studios, Ilania Hofler had guided Maurice Mills's survivors through the logistical and emotional difficulties of interment. theatlantic.com

Since 2004, residents along Winchester and Golfway roads in Lyndhurst have lived with the knowledge that a housing development could be built behind their homes, abutting Acacia Country Club. blog.cleveland.com

In the early hours before sunrise on Sunday, Joseph J Vehnick searched desperately for a telephone to alert authorities that the powerboat he'd been on had crashed against a concrete abutment and sank in the Hudson River . abclocal.go.com

After 6 months of healing, the posterior implants could receive Peek (BioHorizons) temporary abutments and 2 IMTEC (3M ESPE) mini- implants could be placed in site Nos. dentistrytoday.com

"Experimental Study of Piles in Integral Abutment Bridges," International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 1997, Vol 15, 343-355. betterroads.com

Implant abutments placed on the correct position. dentistrytoday.com

Three waterfront homes abutting White Bear Lake in Mahtomedi are damaged by fire. kstp.com

NORTH MANKATO — Opponents of a proposed six-story apartment building abutting a residential neighborhood once again beseeched the North Mankato City Council to shoot down the plan, and Monday night they had some new ammunition. mankatofreepress.com

"'Groundhog Day' is a very powerful parable abut how we're stuck in loops," Hannam said. delmartimes.net

EverFlex Partials exert much less torque and damaging extractive force on abutment teeth when compared to improperly designed cast partials. ada.org

A pedestrian and bicycle pathway may be established within the right-of-way of a county road built on an easement granted for highway purposes, without first obtaining the consent of each owner of property abutting the highway. milawyersweekly.com

Usage in scientific papers

Let e0 be the side of P abutting V which is not shared by Q2 .
About a new splitting for the algorithmic study of the tilings $\{p,q\}$ of the hyperbolic plane when $q$ is odd

Definition 2.7. A knot diagram is reduced if there does not exist a region in the associated graph which abuts itself at a vertex.
A Second Order Algebraic Knot Concordance Group

Take a closed curve inside the region which abuts itself, which starts and ends at the crossing.
A Second Order Algebraic Knot Concordance Group

Note that the region which abuts itself can be an inside region, or it can be the region “outside” the knot diagram.
A Second Order Algebraic Knot Concordance Group

We say that a square of ∆s abuts Σs if T ∩ Σs is nonempty.
The Octagonal PET II: The Topology of the Limit Sets

Usage in literature

He walked down the avenue to its rear wall, only to find that it abutted against the wall of the next building. "The Film of Fear" by Arnold Fredericks

On the quarry track stood three flat cars loaded with granite blocks for the abutment of the new Smoky Creek Bridge. "Whispering Smith" by Frank H. Spearman

On the west side of Park Road are the terraces abutting on Regent's Park. "Hampstead and Marylebone" by Geraldine Edith Mitton

Here and there there are seen horseshoe arches supported at the abutments by light and graceful columns, inclosing marble-paved courts. "Aztec Land" by Maturin M. Ballou

Down by the waterfront a thick, curling mass of smoke was rising from one spot abutting on the water. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930" by Various

On the lips of the abutment, the builders set two stone blocks, smooth and wide, and cut places in them for the bridge timbers. "Dwellers in the Hills" by Melville Davisson Post

In each of them I saw one abutment of a tiny rainbow. "Under the Maples" by John Burroughs

Not a single house abutted against another. "The Peace of Roaring River" by George van Schaick

To the south they abut upon Siam. "The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies" by Robert Gordon Latham

Still clutching the thorn-weapon, he followed a little ravine up to a rocky abutment. "One Purple Hope!" by Henry Hasse

Usage in poetry
Along the gray abutment's wall
The idle shad-net dries;
The toll-man in his cobbler's stall
Sits smoking with closed eyes.