join
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
algebraic-geometry
computing
databases
engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: joins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: joining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: joint
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: join
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: join
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: join
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: joinest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: joinedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: joins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: joineth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: join
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: join
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: join
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: joining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: joined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: joyn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joyne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joyen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: joyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joyne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: joyen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To connect or combine into one; to put together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
gloss: To come together; to meet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Parallel lines never join.
These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
gloss: To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
And we will triumph ouer al the world.
[…]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
gloss: To come into the company of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To become a member of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
gloss: To unite in marriage.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To enjoin upon; to command.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.
gloss: To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
pos: verb
examples: to join encounter, battle, or issue
Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]
On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.
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.
gloss: An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
pos: noun
examples: We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.
gloss: An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
pos: noun
gloss: An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of joining something, such as a network.
pos: noun
examples: The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
gloss: The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
pos: noun
gloss: The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.
pos: noun
Synonyms: connect
fay
unite
accouple
affix
assemble
associate
attach
bind
clasp
clinch
combine
conglomerate
conglutinate
conjoin
construct
couple
entwine
fix
graft
hitch
hook
inosculate
interlink
join
joint
knit
knot
link
marry
piece together
piecen
pinion
put together
splice
wed
yoke
Antonyms: detach
disconnect
disjoin
divide
unfasten
Derived words: 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
disjoin
full outer join
Jacob's join
join point
join tree
left outer join
misjoin
right outer join
self-join
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