different between catlap vs adjoin

English

Etymology

cat +? lap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæt.læp/

Noun

catlap (uncountable)

1. (slang, derogatory) A watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.
   • 1864, Charles Reade, Very Hard Cash, Chapter XIV, p. 75,^[2]

     " […] You mustn't gobble, nor drink your beer too fast." ¶ "You are wrong, doctor; I never drink no beer: it costs." ¶ "Your catlap, then. […] "

   • 1907, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, Act II,^[3]

     I suppose you think I come here to beg from you, like this damaged lot here. Not me. I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.

   • 2015, Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World, London: Reaktion Books,^[5]

     Identifying tea as 'catlap' had a prevailing satirical currency in the mid-1780s.

Anagrams

• lap cat, lapcat

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman adjoindre, from Latin adiung?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-join'
• IPA^(key): /??d???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

adjoin (third-person singular simple present adjoins, present participle adjoining, simple past and past participle adjoined)

1. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.

   The living room and dining room adjoin each other.

   • We were in the living area, which adjoins the kitchen.

2. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).

   ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}\left({\sqrt {2}}\right)}$ can be obtained from ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}}$ by adjoining ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$ to ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}}$.

Derived terms

• adjoining

Related terms

• adjunction

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