join
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: join
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: joins
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form: joined
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form: joyn
form: joyne
form: joyen
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
text: We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
glosses: To connect or combine into one; to put together.
examples: text: Parallel lines never join.
text: These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
glosses: To come together; to meet.
examples: text: Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
And we will triumph ouer al the world.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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 I, scene ii:
text: […]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2:
glosses: To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
examples: text: I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
text: 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.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: To come into the company of.
examples: text: Many children join a sports club.
text: Most politicians have joined a party.
text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To become a member of.
examples: text: By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
topics: computing
databases
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glosses: To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
examples: text: Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xiii, recto:
text: […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne
 Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 2:
text: What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 19:6, column 2:
glosses: To unite in marriage.
examples: text: And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio Cxj, recto:
glosses: To enjoin upon; to command.
examples: text: to join encounter, battle, or issue
text: Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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:
text: On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 b.c.
ref: 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
Synonyms: sense: to combine more than one item into one
word: bewed
word: connect
word: fay
word: unite
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: wed
word: yoke
Hyponyms: word: belay
word: coalesce
word: mull
word: picket
word: tether
word: brace
word: engraft
word: fasten
word: grapple
word: make fast
word: braze
word: button
word: buckle
word: chain
word: clamp
word: crimp
word: dovetail
word: gird
word: lace
word: lash
word: leash
word: lock
word: mortise
word: nail
word: pin
word: rivet
word: screw
word: screw up
word: sew
word: solder
word: stitch
word: strap
word: swathe
word: tack
word: tie
word: truss
word: weld
word: braid
word: entangle
word: interlace
word: intertwine
word: intertwist
word: interweave
word: twist
Derived terms: cojoin
conjoin
interjoin
joinability
joinable
joiner
join forces
join-hand
join hands
join in
joining fee
join issue
join out
join the choir invisible
join the club
join the dots
join the majority
join up
multijoin
rejoin
subjoin
underjoin
unjoin
why buy a book when you can join a library
why buy a book when you can join the library