to butt
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7.3
- verb
- /bʌt/
- It butts up against Quetico Provincial Park, separated by as little as a few hundred feet of water.
- butt against the wall
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Watch on YouTubeThe will of the people butting up against the police's desire to destroy, to crush all public expressions of grief.
- The will of the people butting up against the police's desire to destroy, to crush all public expressions of grief.
- Eventually we're going to go to the point where they're we're butting up against the tipping point now.
Examples
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All right, GPU time, and then this goes in, but they butt right up against each other.
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You can go like this and you can actually butt up right against that that line if you want.
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I'm not, I, I, I struggle with this because I want to think that way, but I butt up against science as well.
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Our chosen land this time was that eye-catching rough horizon where the Big Belt Mountains and the Bridger Mountains butt up against each other.
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The property we bought butts up against a protected nature reserve.
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Their garden butts up against the neighbor's fence, creating a shared boundary.
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The two fields butt against each other at the roadside, separated only by a small ditch.
Synonyms
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2.3
To be next to a country or area along a boundary
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5.2
Next to and touching another place, like a house next to a park
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6.9
To be next to another building or piece of land, sharing a border
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3.2
To be next to another place, sharing a border
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9.1
To touch the edge of another piece of land or a building
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8.6
To be next to another area or country
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5.6
To be next to something and touch its edge
Idioms
- Informal
A funny phrase people say when they cannot believe something
- Informal
To embarrass yourself by doing something awkward in front of other people
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.9
The lower front of the body above the private area that looks rounded like a small hill
- Specialized
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6.7
A connection of two pieces of wood or metal placed end to end without overlapping
- Offensive
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9.9
A very small swimsuit or underwear with a thin strip of cloth between the buttocks
- Specialized
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5.6
A metal joint set into the edge of a door and its frame to let the door open
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6.5
A place where two pieces of metal are joined end to end along their edges
- Specialized
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5.6
A way to join two metal pieces end to end by melting their ends into one flat joint
- Specialized
A way of joining two metal parts end to end by melting their ends together
- Specialized
A process that joins two metal pieces by melting their ends with electricity, often used for rails or pipes
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Etymology
Butt meaning to be next to or share a boundary comes from the same idea of ends touching, where the word meant 'end' or 'goal'. So if a garden butts up against a wall, their ends touch and they are right next to each other.