adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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immediately
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An immediately adjacent specimen was snap frozen in the endoscopy suite.
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It had been specially constructed within the ancient structure of the Vatican, and stood immediately adjacent to the Audience Hall itself.
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Up to sixty people can be seated and full catering facilities are available in the bar and cafeteria which are immediately adjacent .
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The Secret Service will provide protection immediately adjacent to the chief executive, Meyer said.
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The white lines depict the outlines of the Cairngorm and immediately adjacent granites.
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Large numbers of important military installations are located in or immediately adjacent to urban areas.
■ NOUN
area
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However, because there is still some inhibition the neural activity stabilises as adjacent areas of excited and inhibited cells.
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Decline and decay in one location will soon impact adjacent areas .
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Even then, adjacent areas often merge into each other so that the boundaries are blurred.
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Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors' safety is imperilled.
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An adjacent area , Lagalochan, has more recently been investigated as a gold prospect.
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The overwhelming impression in the survey of newly-established firms was also that they had originated in adjacent areas of London.
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Repeat the process on an adjacent area , drawing the full brush towards the previously coated area.
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Many of the concepts of systems analysis, useful in management theory as well as in computer technology, spilled over into adjacent areas .
building
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Where adjacent building works affect an occupation, appeal.
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Several dealers sold drugs in the hallways of adjacent buildings .
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It is, for example, a public space and yet a private one too, as an extension of the adjacent buildings .
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There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire.
cell
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These in turn inhibit some adjacent cells but excite others further away, and so on.
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Not infrequently two or more adjacent cells may become confluent owing to the atrophy of the vein or veins separating them.
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At the eight-celled stage the yellow cytoplasm is confined to a pair of adjacent cells .
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As the tube folds, the CAMs of the future nervous system change and become different from those of adjacent cells .
field
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Although general separation of points by environment was achieved there was always some overlap between adjacent fields .
needle
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Following her instructions to the letter, I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle .
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For example, the rule of not having two adjacent needles tucking.
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Move stitch from needle 3 to adjacent needle.
room
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He could not remember that, although he could remember Britt-Marie's soft moans coming from the adjacent room .
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Military aides bustled back and forth in the doorway of an adjacent room .
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This could easily occur if the spur was taken through a wall to feed a socket in an adjacent room .
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Parents have the option of staying in the kids' rooms or booking an adjacent room.
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Families may require adjoining or adjacent rooms . 6.
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The study was empty; the light came from the adjacent room .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fields adjacent to the nuclear facility were found to have high levels of radioactivity.
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The blaze spread to two adjacent buildings before firefighters were able to contain it.
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the sale of adjacent land
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A naive operation consists of pushing one crate into an adjacent free area.
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Deep-sea sediments may be scraped off the descending slab and incorporated into the adjacent mountains.
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He would oppose any multi-deck parking structure adjacent to his project.
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John Lewis, who represents a district adjacent to Gingrich.
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Pseudocysts may be complicated by infection, haemorrhage, rupture, and by compression of adjacent organs.
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They carry within their range of possibilities, which includes their genetic coding, information about adjacent and surrounding systems.
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When the crowds later began thinning and the adjacent table cleared, Roquelaure leaned forward over his port glass.