join
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)joins, joined, joining
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization“He joined the Communist Party as a young man”Synonyms: fall inget togetherMore general act, moveMore specific enter, unite, rejoin, mingle, infiltrate, unionize, sign up, band oneself, affiliate
- cause to become joined or linked“join these two parts so that they fit together”Opposite disjoinMore general connect, linkMore specific assemble, match, connect, bridge, fair, ligate, anastomose, close, ankylose, rebate +9 moreCauses conjoin
- come into the company of“She joined him for a drink”More general meet, get together
- make contact or come together“The two roads join here”Synonyms: conjoinMore general connect, linkMore specific copulate, solder, patch, attach, splice, knit, weld, feather, graft, anastomose +3 more
- be or become joined or united or linked“The two streets connect to become a highway”“Our paths joined”“The travelers linked up again at the airport”Synonyms: connectlinklink upuniteMore general refer, pertainMore specific complect, osculate, connect, articulate, syndicate, cohere
Noun (2)joins
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is madeSynonyms: articulationjointjuncturejunctionType of connection, connexionKinds esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets“let C be the union of the sets A and B”Synonyms: unionsumType of setKinds direct sum
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Translations
Verb to combine more than one item into one
- Spanish
- unir
- French
- joindre
- German
- verbinden
- Italian
- unire
- Portuguese
- juntar
- Russian
- соединя́ть sojedinjátʹ
- Arabic
- وَصَلَ waṣala
- Chinese
- 连接 liánjiē
- Polish
- łączyć
- Swedish
- sammanfoga
16 more languages
Verb to become a member of
Verb to come into the company of
- Italian
- aggregarsi
- Turkish
- katılmak
- Russian
- присоединя́ться prisojedinjátʹsja
- Chinese
- 加入 jiārù
- Japanese
- 加わる kuwawaru
- Dutch
- vervoegen
- Swedish
- följa med
- Greek
- προσχωρώ proschoró
- Korean
- 가입하다 gaiphada
- Hungarian
- csatlakozik
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. joinen, joignen, F. joindre, fr. L. jungere to yoke, bind together, join; akin to jugum yoke. See Yoke, and cf. Conjugal, Junction, Junta.
1. To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
Woe unto them that join house to house.— Is. v. 8.
Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined.— William Shakespeare
Thy tuneful voice with numbers join.— John Dryden
2. To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.
We jointly now to join no other head.— John Dryden
3. To unite in marriage.
He that joineth his virgin in matrimony.— John Wyclif
What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.— Matt. xix. 6.
4. To enjoin upon; to command. Obs. & R.
They join them penance, as they call it.— John Tyndale
5. To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue. John Milton
6. To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.
7. To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.
To join battle, To join issue. See under Battle, Issue.
Synonyms: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See Add.
To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join; two rivers join.
Whose house joined hard to the synagogue.— Acts xviii. 7.
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?— Ezra ix. 14.
Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.— William Shakespeare
1. Geometry The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines. Olaus Henrici
2. The place or part where objects have been joined; a joint; a seam.
3. Computers The combining of multiple tables to answer a query in a relational database system.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<database> inner join (common) or outer join (less common).
2.<theory> least upper bound.
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