join
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EtymologyEdit
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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NounEdit
join (plural joins)
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
- 2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference:
- The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
- (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
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- (lowest upper bound): meet
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TranslationsEdit
an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect
an intersection of data
VerbEdit
join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
- Parallel lines never join.
- These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2:
- […] Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
- (transitive) To come into the company of.
- I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:
- 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.
- (transitive) To become a member of.
- Many children join a sports club.
- Most politicians have joined a party.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
- To unite in marriage.
- 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], OCLC 56485293, folio xiii, recto:
- Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 2:
- […] this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne / Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 19:6, column 2:
- What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder.
- (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
- 1527 (originally published, quote is from a later edition), William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man
- They join them penance, as they call it.
- 1527 (originally published, quote is from a later edition), William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- to join encounter, battle, or issue
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
SynonymsEdit
- (to combine more than one item into one): bewed, connect, fay, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
TranslationsEdit
to combine more than one item into one; to put together
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to come together; to meet
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to come into the company of
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to become a member of
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to engage or join in battle
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join (plural joina)
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