join

1. 1

   To connect or combine into one; to put together.transitive

   • The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
   • We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
2. 2

   To come together; to meet.intransitive

   • Parallel lines never join.
   • These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
3. 3

   To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.intransitive

   • Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me And we will triumph ouer al the world.
   • […]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
4. 4

   To start working on or participating in a project.transitive

   • He joined season 2 of the television show.
5. 5

   To come into the company of.transitive

   • I will join you in watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
6. 6

   To become a member of.transitive

   • Many children join a sports club.
   • Most politicians have joined a party.
7. 7

   To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.transitive

   • By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
8. 8

   To unite in marriage.

   • Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
   • […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]
9. 9

   To enjoin upon; to command.obsoleterare

   • And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.
10. 10

    To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

    • to join encounter, battle, or issue

syn. connect · fay · unite · accouple · affix · assemble · associate · attach · bind · clasp · clinch · combine

ant. detach · disconnect · disjoin · divide · unfasten

1. 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.
2. 2

   An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

3. 3

   An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

4. 4

   The act of joining something, such as a network.

   • The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
5. 5

   The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.

6. 6

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