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Join

//ˈd͡ʒɔɪn// noun, verb

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Noun
  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
    a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets wordnet
  3. 3
    An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  4. 4
    the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made wordnet
  5. 5
    An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
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  1. 6
    The act of joining something, such as a network.

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

  2. 7
    The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
Verb
  1. 1
    To connect or combine into one; to put together. transitive

    "The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe."

  2. 2
    make contact or come together wordnet
  3. 3
    To come together; to meet. intransitive

    "Parallel lines never join."

  4. 4
    cause to become joined or linked wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    become part of; become a member of a group or organization wordnet
  2. 7
    To come into the company of. transitive

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

  3. 8
    come into the company of wordnet
  4. 9
    To become a member of. transitive

    "Many children join a sports club."

  5. 10
    be or become joined or united or linked wordnet
  6. 11
    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."

  7. 12
    To unite in marriage.

    "Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned."

  8. 13
    To enjoin upon; to command. obsolete, rare

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

  9. 14
    To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

    "to join encounter, battle, or issue"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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