Join Definition
join
joined, joining, joins
verb
joined, joining, joins
To put or bring together; connect; fasten.
Webster's New World
To put or bring into close association or relationship.
Two families that were joined by marriage; join forces.
American Heritage
To make into one; unite.
Join forces, join people in marriage.
Webster's New World
To become a part or member of; enter into association with.
To join a club.
Webster's New World
To meet and merge with.
Where the creek joins the river.
American Heritage
noun
joins
A place of joining; joint.
Webster's New World
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
Wiktionary
(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
Wiktionary
(algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
Wiktionary
idiom
join battle
- to start fighting or competing
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Join
- join battle
Origin of Join
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Middle English joinen from Old French joindre joign-, join- from Latin iungere yeug- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Old French joindre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeug- “to join, unite”.
From Wiktionary
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