join
Plural: joins
Noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- The act of joining something, such as a network.
- The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
Verb
Verb Forms: joined, joining, joins
- To unite or come together with something else.
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"
- cause to become joined or linked
- "join these two parts so that they fit together"
- come into the company of
- "She joined him for a drink"
- make contact or come together
- "The two roads join here"
- be or become joined or united or linked
- "Our paths joined"
- To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- To come together; to meet.
- To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- To come into the company of.
- To become a member of.
- To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- To unite in marriage.
- To enjoin upon; to command.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
Examples
- By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
- I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
- Many children join a sports club.
- Most politicians have joined a party.
- Parallel lines never join.
- The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
- These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
- to join encounter, battle, or issue
- We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
- You can JOIN multiple tiles to form longer, higher-scoring words in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
articulation, bring together, conjoin, connect, fall in, get together, joint, junction, juncture, link, link up, sum, union, unite, accouple, affix, assemble, associate, attach, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch, combine, conglomerate, conglutinate, construct, couple, entwine, fay, fix, graft, hitch, hook, inosculate, interlink, join, knit, knot, marry, piece together, piecen, pinion, put together, splice, wed, yoke
Scrabble Score: 11
join: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordjoin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
join: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary