Etimology
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
join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)
(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
(intransitive) To come together; to meet.
(intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
(transitive) To come into the company of.
(transitive) To become a member of.
(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
To unite in marriage.
(obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
Examples
The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
Parallel lines never join.
These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with meAnd we will triumph ouer al the world.
[…] Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
Many children join a sports club.
Most politicians have joined a party.
In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
[…] this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell […]
What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder.
They join them penance, as they call it.
to join encounter, battle, or issue
Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’dAnd cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]
On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.
Related words
synonyms
(to combine more than one item into one): bewed, connect, fay, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
noun
join (plural joins)
An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
(computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
(algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
Examples
We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.
The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
Antonym: meet
Related words
hyponyms
ANSI join
antijoin
autojoin
cross join
equijoin
explicit join
full join
hash join
implicit join
inner join
left join
natural join
outer join
right join
self join
semijoin
straight join
theta join