join

• joyn, joyne, joyen (obsolete)

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.

• enPR: join, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

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• Hyphenation: join

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

2. (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.

3. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.

   Parallel lines never join.

   These two rivers join in about 80 miles.

4. (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
     And we will triumph ouer al the world.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2:

     […] Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.

5. (transitive) To come into the company of.

   I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     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.

6. (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.

7. (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.

8. To unite in marriage.
   • 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xiii, recto:

     Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 2:

     […] this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne
     Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 19:6, column 2:

     What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder.

9. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
   • 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio Cxj, recto:

     And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.

10. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

    to join encounter, battle, or issue

    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:

      Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
      And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]

    • 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, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.

• (to combine more than one item into one): bewed, connect, fay, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

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

• Nijo

From English join.

join (Hong Kong Cantonese)

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

Dalmatian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : join     Multiplier : simple

• yoin, ioin

From Latin ūnus.

• IPA^(key): /join/

join (plural joina)

1. one

join

1. first-person singular indicative past of juoda

join

1. instructive plural of joki

• Joni, ojin