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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.

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past joined, past participle joined or (archaic) joint)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
    Parallel lines never join.
    These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
  3. (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
  4. (transitive) To come into the company of.
    I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
  5. (transitive) To become a member of.
    Many children join a sports club.
    Most politicians have joined a party.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  6. (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.
  7. To unite in marriage.
  8. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
  9. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
    to join encounter, battle, or issue
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
      Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
      And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.
    • 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c.‎[1], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
      Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 b.c.

to combine more than one item into one; to put together

to come together; to meet

to come into the company of

to become a member of

to engage or join in battle

join (plural joins)

  1. An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
    • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
      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. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  4. (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: […]
  5. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
    Antonym: meet
  6. (algebraic geometry) The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.

an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect

From English join.

join (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to join; to become member of
  2. to join; to meet up

join

  1. alternative spelling of ioin

join

  1. first-person singular indicative past of juoda

join

  1. instructive plural of joki

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kron. Cognates include Burmese ကျွန် (kywan).

join (classifier yug)

  1. slave, servant
    • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 12:16 [Genesis 12:16]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎[2]:
      yang kyung- coid kyung- nu꞉ kyungˮ- myang꞉ kyung joem- join joem yoʼ gola-ug joem ri byid꞉ da꞉.
      he gave sheep, goats, cattle, horses, slaves and camels.