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join
- /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
Rhymes with -ɔɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
verb joins · joining · joined · joint · join
- To connect or combine into one; to put together. The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
- To come together; to meet. Parallel lines never join.
- To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose. Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me And we will triumph ouer al the world.
- To start working on or participating in a project. He joined season 2 of the television show.
- To come into the company of. I will join you in watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
- To become a member of. Many children join a sports club.
- To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables. By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
- To unite in marriage. Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
- To enjoin upon; to command. And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest. to join encounter, battle, or issue
Similar: connect, fay, unite, accouple, affix, assemble, associate, attach, bind, clasp, clinch, combine
noun joins · joyn · joyne · joyen
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining. We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- The act of joining something, such as a network. The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
- The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.
