conjoin

To join together; to unite; to combine.

Noun

  1. One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
    • Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins. - 2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax,...

    Synonyms: conjunct

  2. A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
    • Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins. - 1984, Ellen M. Kroll, Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”,...

Origin

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.

Forms

conjoins

Verb

  1. To join together; to unite; to combine.
    • They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
    • During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize...
  2. To marry.
    • I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
  3. To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
  4. To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
  5. To unite, to join, to league.
    • Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong, When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas Haue met vs by the riuer Araris: And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King, That now is marching neere to Parthia. - c. 1587–1588 (date...
    • And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether...

Forms

conjoins conjoining conjoined

Synonyms

affix attach join put together bewed wed

Related

conjunction conjunctiva conjunctive

Derived

conjoined twin conjoiner conjoint conjointly reconjoin