abut
Share a boundary
To abut is to border on or touch along an edge.
Properties abut when they share a boundary: Their land abuts the national forest.
Buildings abut when they stand side by side with no gap between.
The word appears most often in legal and real estate contexts describing how parcels of land relate to each other.
Perceiving through physical contact
adjoin · graze · brush · nudge · interface · converge · intersect
Sharing a border
- contiguousSharing a common boundary
- neighboringSituated beside another
- borderingSharing an edge with
- adjacentDirectly next to
proximate · flanking · juxtaposed · coterminous · conterminous · tangential · alongside · beside
Outer edge or limit
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- frontierEdge of settlement
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
margin · verge · brink · limit · threshold · property line · lot line · parcel
Vertical enclosing structure
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- masonryBuilding with mortared blocks
footprint · setback · property boundary · load-bearing · structural · pier · column
touch
Perceiving through physical contact
impinge · adjoin · graze · brush · nudge · interface · converge · intersect
adjoining
Sharing a border
- contiguousSharing a common boundary
- neighboringSituated beside another
- borderingSharing an edge with
adjacent · proximate · flanking · juxtaposed · coterminous · conterminous · tangential · alongside · beside · next
border
Outer edge or limit
demarcation · margin · verge · brink · limit · threshold · property line · lot line · parcel · easement
wall
Vertical enclosing structure
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
masonry · footprint · setback · property boundary · load-bearing · structural · pier · column
- intrusionsintrusion, intrude, intruder, intruding, barging in