"abut on" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abuts on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutting on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutted on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutted on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His land abuts on the road.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island, Cosimo, Inc. (2007), →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, →ISBN, page 97:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To border on."
      ],
      "id": "en-abut_on-en-verb-wzOOCUTP",
      "links": [
        [
          "border on",
          "border on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To border on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to border on",
          "word": "s’avoisiner"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to border on",
          "word": "être adossé"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to border on",
          "word": "être contigu"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "abut on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abuts on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutting on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutted on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abutted on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His land abuts on the road.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island, Cosimo, Inc. (2007), →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants, →ISBN, page 97:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To border on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "border on",
          "border on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To border on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to border on",
      "word": "s’avoisiner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to border on",
      "word": "être adossé"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to border on",
      "word": "être contigu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "abut on"
}