Difference between Connected and Abutting

What is the difference between Connected and Abutting?

Connected as a verb is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. while Abutting as a verb is to touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)

Connected

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity. A metric space is connected if it cannot be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed. A directed graph is connected if for every pair of vertices, there is a path, either directed or undirected, connecting those vertices.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

Example sentence: Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.

Abutting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)

We hope you now know whether to use Connected or Abutting in your sentence.

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