adjacent vs away

adjacent

adj
  • Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. 

  • Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. 

  • Just before, after, or facing. 

prep
  • Next to; beside. 

  • Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. 

noun
  • Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite. 

away

adj
  • At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. 

  • Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target). 

  • Not on one's home territory. 

  • Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. 

  • Out. 

adv
  • From a state or condition of being; out of existence. 

  • From a place, hence. 

  • On; in continuance; without intermission or delay. 

  • Without restraint. 

  • In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place. 

  • Aside, so as to discard something. 

  • Aside; off; in another direction. 

  • In or to something's usual or proper storage place. 

  • So as to remove or use up something. 

  • Come away; go away; take away. 

  • At a stated distance in time or space. 

verb
  • To depart; to go to another place. 

intj
  • come on!; go on! 

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