join
//ˈd͡ʒɔɪn//
Forms
- present (v1)
- join
- past (v2)
- joined
- past participle (v3)
- joined
- present participle
- joining
- 3rd person singular
- joins
- Plural
- joins
Definitions
1.To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
- We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
2.To come together; to meet.
- These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
3.To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
4.To come into the company of.
- 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.
1.An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
2.An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
3.An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- 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.
4.The act of joining something, such as a network.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #566
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.