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Join   /dʒɔɪn/   Listen
verb
Join  v. t.  (past & past part. joined; pres. part. joining)  
1.
To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. "Woe unto them that join house to house." "Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined." "Thy tuneful voice with numbers join."
2.
To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church. "We jointly now to join no other head."
3.
To unite in marriage. "He that joineth his virgin in matrimony." "What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
4.
To enjoin upon; to command. (Obs. & R.) "They join them penance, as they call it."
5.
To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
6.
To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.
7.
To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.
To join battle, To join issue. See under Battle, Issue.
Synonyms: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See Add.


Join  v. i.  To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join; two rivers join. "Whose house joined hard to the synagogue." "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?" "Nature and fortune joined to make thee great."


noun
Join  n.  
1.
(Geom.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.
2.
The place or part where objects have been joined; a joint; a seam.
3.
(Computers) The combining of multiple tables to answer a query in a relational database system.





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"Join" Quotes from Famous Books



... subject of the conjectural vb. wundrað: "the valiant earl wondereth then through what he shall attain his life's end, when he no longer may live. ... So Bēowulf knew not (wondered how) through what his end should come," etc. W. and Ho. join þonne to the next line. Or, for hwār read wǣre: Wundur wǣre þonne ( gif), etc., "would it be any wonder if a brave man," ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... Wharncliffe. My father was a major in the army. He died when I was young, and my mother is still alive, and is sister to Lady Auburn. The father and mother of Cecilia are both dead. He went out to India to join his brother, another uncle, of whom I shall speak directly. He has now been dead three years, and out of the four brothers there is only one left, my uncle; with whom Cecilia is living, and whose Christian name is Henry. He was a lawyer by profession, but he purchased a ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... however, Annie did not join her companions in the grounds, but went up to her bedroom, where, by Mrs. Willis' orders, she was to remain until the girls went in. She was to take her own exercise later ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade
... grow at all because he had so little food. He remained poor little Quadjaq, and led a miserable life. He did not dare even to join in the play of the boys, for they called him a "poor little shriveled bag of bones," and were always imposing upon him on ...
— A Treasury of Eskimo Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss
... and ran back to join her school friends. Ann had gone about putting up the children's swing and at first had paid little attention to the enthusiasm of the girls who had been saved from going over the dam. But she ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson


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