# rejoin
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪn/, /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
* Hyphenation: re‧join
* Rhymes: -ɔɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rejoynen, partly from Middle French rejoin- (stem of rejoindre, from re- (“again”) + joindre (“to join”)) and partly from re- + joynen. By surface analysis, re- +‎ join. Doublet of rejoinder.

#### Verb

rejoin (third-person singular simple present rejoins, present participle rejoining, simple past and past participle rejoined)
* To join again; to unite after separation.
    Antonyms: disjoin, unjoin
** 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
* To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
** 1737, [Alexander] Pope, The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 18:Meet and rejoin me, in my penſive Grott.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575:The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom, who with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is: […]
** 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎:Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.

##### Related terms

* conjoin
* rejoint

### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English rejoynen, from Middle French rejoin- (stem of rejoindre, from re- (“again”) + joindre (“to join”)). By surface analysis, re- +‎ join. Doublet of rejoinder.

#### Verb

rejoin (third-person singular simple present rejoins, present participle rejoining, simple past and past participle rejoined)
* (archaic) To state in reply.
** [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet (Arnold’s English Literature Series), London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, page 44:"Be careful what you do," rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, "lest someone see you digging, and scent us out."
* (archaic, intransitive) To answer to a reply.
* (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
* (US patent law, nonstandard) To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder.

### References

* ↑ “rejoin, v.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “rejoinen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “rejoin, v.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “rejoin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* Joiner, joiner