join

See also: jõin

English

Alternative forms

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.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: join, IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪn
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: join

Verb

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)

  1. (transitive) 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. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
    Parallel lines never join.
    These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
  3. (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
  4. (transitive) To come into the company of.
    I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
  5. (transitive) To become a member of.
    Many children join a sports club.
    Most politicians have joined a party.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  6. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
    By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
  7. To unite in marriage.
  8. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
  9. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
    to join encounter, battle, or issue

Conjugation
Conjugation of join
infinitive (to) join
present tense past tense
1st-person singular join joined
2nd-person singular join, joinest† joined, joinedst†
3rd-person singular joins, joineth† joined
plural join
subjunctive join joined
imperative join —
participles joining joined

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Noun

join (plural joins)

  1. An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
    • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
      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.
  2. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  3. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  4. (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
    • 2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference:
      The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
  5. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
    Antonym: meet

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Anagrams
  • Nijo

Chinese

Etymology

From English join.

Pronunciation

Verb

join (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to join; to become member of
  2. to join; to meet up

Dalmatian
Dalmatian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : join
    Multiplier : simple

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ūnus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /join/

Numeral

join (plural joina)

  1. one

Finnish

Verb

join

  1. first-person singular indicative past of juoda

Noun

join

  1. instructive plural of joki

Anagrams
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