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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



... it took a lot To weigh him from his birth, But nature thought she'd send him back To join his Mother Earth ...
— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End
... deserter, and condemned to twenty years' imprisonment. Among the prisoners was the young wife of Captain Silvestro Castiglioni of Modena. 'Go, do your duty as a citizen,' she had said, when her husband left her to join the insurrection. 'Do not betray it for me, as perhaps it would make me love you less.' She shared his imprisonment, but just at the moment of the release, she ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... Nora declined to join the buckboard party and strolled off by herself. She looked almost pretty in her clean, white linen suit and her hair tightly bound by a broad black ribbon. The goldenrod and sumac were opening, but the summer flowers looked old and tired, as though they needed new gowns and freshening ...
— Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson
... Join, every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of the sky— In adoration join; and, ardent, raise One general song! To him, ye vocal gales, Breathe soft, whose spirit in your freshness breathes; Oh! talk of him in solitary ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... interrupted Quimby, forgetting the door, in his eagerness to be of service. "I—I would willingly ask him to join us, ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer


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