join

An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.

Noun

  1. 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. - 2023 May...
  2. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  3. An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  4. The act of joining something, such as a network.
    • The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […] - 2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference:
  5. The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.

    Antonyms: meet

  6. The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.

Origin

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.

Forms

joins joyn joyne joyen

Hyponyms

ANSI join antijoin autojoin cross join equijoin explicit join full join hash join implicit join inner join left join natural join outer join right join self join semijoin straight join theta join

Derived

disjoin full outer join Jacob's join join point join tree left outer join misjoin right outer join self-join

Verb

  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.
    • Parallel lines never join.
    • These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
  3. To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
    • Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me And we will triumph ouer al the world. - c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R....
    • […]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great. - c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
  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. - 1897...
  5. To become a member of.
    • 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...
  6. 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.
    • Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned. - 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the...
    • […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…] - c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
    • What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 19:6, column 2:
  8. To enjoin upon; to command.
    • And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all. - 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a...
  9. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
    • 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, […] - c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition,...
    • On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd. - 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,...

Forms

joins joining joined joint no-table-tags glossary join joinest joinedst joineth - joyn joyne joyen

Synonyms

bewed connect fay unite accouple affix assemble associate attach bind clasp clinch combine conglomerate conglutinate conjoin construct couple entwine fix graft hitch hook inosculate

Antonyms

detach disconnect disjoin divide unfasten

Hyponyms

belay coalesce mull picket tether brace engraft fasten grapple make fast braze button buckle chain clamp crimp dovetail gird lace lash leash lock mortise nail

Derived

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