# conjoin
## English
### Etymology

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- +‎ join.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɪn

### Verb

conjoin (third-person singular simple present conjoins, present participle conjoining, simple past and past participle conjoined)
* (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
    They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
** 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate‎:During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency.
* (transitive) To marry.
    I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
* (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
* (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
* (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong, When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas Haue met vs by the riuer Araris: And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King, That now is marching neere to Parthia.
** 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVI, St. Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!

#### Synonyms

* (to come together): affix, attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
* (to marry): bewed, wed; see also Thesaurus:marry

#### Derived terms

* conjoined twin
* conjoiner
* conjoint
* conjointly
* reconjoin

#### Related terms

* conjunction
* conjunctiva
* conjunctive

#### Translations

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### Noun

conjoin (plural conjoins)
* (grammar) One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
    Synonym: conjunct
** 2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volumes 2, The Complex Sentence and Discourse, →ISBN, page 621:Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins.
* (archaeology) A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
** 1984, Ellen M. Kroll, Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”, in Harold Hietala, editor, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, →ISBN, page 23:Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.

### Further reading

* Conjoin @ The Internet Grammar of English