Abutting

Word ABUTTING
Character 8
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Pronunciations /əˈbʌt.ɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Abutting"

What do we mean by abutting?

To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)

To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

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The word "abutting" in example sentences

On either side of the hall, and on either side of the portico, were apartments like those already described as abutting on the same portions of the older palace, differing from them chiefly in being larger and more numerous. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Alexandria requires business owners and residents to clear sidewalks "abutting" their property within 24 hours after a storm has ended or face a $50 fine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"abutting" residential property and specifies that "no collective shall be located on a lot … across the street or alley from … a residentially zoned lot or a lot improved with residential use." ❋ Reason Magazine (2010)

But the owners of properties abutting public alleys claim a right to six feet of land measured out from their buildings, and they will typically seek payment in exchange for keeping parking spaces clear during filming. ❋ Nick Carr (2011)

In 2008, a photographic assignment covering the country's rubber plantations took Vandy to an eastern province, abutting the border of Vietnam. ❋ Lauren Quinn (2011)

In the 1880s the brothers set up the Cosgriff Sheep Company, buying vast acreage in Wyoming, especially land abutting the open range Red Desert, regarded as superior sheep grazing ground. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Frey noted that whites are dwindling not only in the inner suburbs abutting the District but also in neighboring counties such as Anne Arundel and Howard. ❋ Carol Morello (2011)

I gaze out through the sliding glass doors overlooking the yard—three acres of sprawling meadow abutting wooded conservation land. ❋ Lisa Genova (2011)

Lodging on this trip can be found at Ocosingo, Palenque (with some very nice hotels), near Bonampak (in modest but fun lodges run by the Lacandones), at ecolodges abutting the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, at the Hacienda Santa Maria (fabulous hacienda/hotel/museum with a fine outdoor restaurant and bar) near the Montebello Lakes, El Chiflon and Comitan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only part of the country that experienced an uptick in insurgent activity over the past year, he said, is eastern Afghanistan, particularly the provinces of Wardak and Logar abutting Kabul and the Pakistani frontier belt south of Khost. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2011)

I admired a property to the southeast abutting another part of the forest until I learned it was a major revving-up zone for snowmobiles in winter, and I saw overpriced sage-land steppe, then some sloping land so high an oxygen mask would have been useful. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

From her top-floor studio in a warehouse abutting the Brooklyn Bridge, Ms. Mensch has, since the late '70s, snapped the waterfront in all its grit and glory. ❋ Lana Bortolot (2012)

When Wyoming was still a territory a titled Scotsman who had everything owned the Sand Creek Cattle and Land Company ranch abutting what is now Bird Cloud. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

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