join

UK /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/ US /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
verb 5noun 5

Definitions

verb

1

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.

2

To come together; to meet.

Parallel lines never join.

These two rivers join in about 80 miles.

3

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

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

To come into the company of.

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

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.

5

To become a member of.

Many children join a sports club.

Most politicians have joined a party.

noun

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

An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

3

An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

4

The act of joining something, such as a network.

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

5

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

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