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What does JOIN mean?

Definitions for JOIN
dʒɔɪnjoin

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. articulation, join, joint, juncture, junctionnoun

    the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

  2. union, sum, joinverb

    a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

    "let C be the union of the sets A and B"

  3. join, fall in, get togetherverb

    become part of; become a member of a group or organization

    "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"

  4. join, bring togetherverb

    cause to become joined or linked

    "join these two parts so that they fit together"

  5. joinverb

    come into the company of

    "She joined him for a drink"

  6. join, conjoinverb

    make contact or come together

    "The two roads join here"

  7. connect, link, link up, join, uniteverb

    be or become joined or united or linked

    "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport"

GCIDE

  1. Joinverb

    To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.

  2. Joinverb

    To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.

  3. Joinnoun

    The place or part where objects have been joined; a joint; a seam.

  4. Joinnoun

    (Computers) The combining of multiple tables to answer a query in a relational database system.

Wiktionary

  1. joinnoun

    An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

  2. joinnoun

    An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

  3. joinnoun

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

  4. joinverb

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

  5. joinverb

    To come together; to meet.

  6. joinverb

    To come into the company of.

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

  7. joinverb

    To become a member of.

  8. Etymology: From joindre, from iungo, from Proto-Indo-European *yeug- “to join, unite”.

ChatGPT

  1. join

    Join typically refers to the action of combining, connecting or uniting two or more entities, be it physical objects, abstract concepts, pieces of information, or groups of individuals. Depending on the context, it can imply becoming a member of a group or institution, or the operation of merging datasets in database management.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Joinverb

    to bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append

  2. Joinverb

    to associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church

  3. Joinverb

    to unite in marriage

  4. Joinverb

    to enjoin upon; to command

  5. Joinverb

    to accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue

  6. Joinverb

    to be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join

  7. Joinnoun

    the line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines

  8. Etymology: [OE. joinen, joignen, F. joindre, fr. L. jungere to yoke, bind together, join; akin to jugum yoke. See Yoke, and cf. Conjugal, Junction, Junta.]

Wikidata

  1. Join

    A SQL join clause combines records from two or more tables in a database. It creates a set that can be saved as a table or used as it is. A JOIN is a means for combining fields from two tables by using values common to each. ANSI standard SQL specifies four types of JOIN: INNER, OUTER, LEFT, and RIGHT. As a special case, a table can JOIN to itself in a self-join. A programmer writes a JOIN statement to identify the records for joining. If the evaluated predicate is true, the combined record is then produced in the expected format, a record set or a temporary table.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Join

    join, v.t. to connect: to unite: to associate: to add or annex.—v.i. to be connected with: to grow together: to be in close contact: to unite (with).—ns. Joind′er, joining; Join′er, one who joins or unites: a carpenter; Join′ery, the art of the joiner; Join′-hand, running hand; Join′ing, the act of joining: a seam: a joint; Joint, a joining: the place where, or mode in which, two or more things join, as two rails, two pieces of timber connected by mortises and tenons, &c.: the flexible hinge of cloth or leather connecting the back of a book with its sides: (geol.) a crack intersecting a mass of rock: a knot: a hinge: a seam: a place of resort for tramps: (U.S.) an opium-den: the place where two bones are joined: (cook.) the part of the limb of an animal cut off at the joint.—adj. joined, united, or combined: shared among more than one.—v.t. to unite by joints: to fit closely: to provide with joints: to cut into joints, as an animal.—v.i. to fit like joints.—adj. Joint′ed, having joints.—ns. Joint′er, the largest kind of plane used by a joiner: a bent piece of iron for riveting two stones together; Joint′ing-rule, a long, straight-edged rule used by bricklayers for keeping their work even.—adv. Joint′ly, in a joint manner: unitedly or in combination: together.—ns. Joint′-oil, the synovia, a viscid secretion for lubricating the articular surfaces; Joint′-stock, stock held jointly or in company; Joint′-stool (Shak.), a stool made of parts inserted in each other; Joint′-ten′ancy, the ownership of land or goods along with one or more persons; Joint′-ten′ant, one who is owner of land or goods along with others; Joint′ure, property joined to or settled on a woman at marriage to be enjoyed after her husband's death.—v.t. to settle a jointure upon.—ns. Joint′ūress, Join′tress, a woman on whom a jointure is settled.—Join battle, to engage in battle.—Out of joint, dislocated, (fig.) disordered; Put one's nose out of joint, to supplant in another's love or confidence; Second joint, the middle piece of a fly fishing-rod: the thigh of a fowl—opp. to the leg or drumstick, the first joint; Universal joint, a contrivance by which one part of a machine is able to move freely in all directions, as in the ball-and-socket joint. [O. Fr. joindre—L. jungĕre, junctum.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. join

    A technical word used in the British service, signifying to effect the junction of one military body with another. In a more limited sense, it means the accession of an individual, voluntary or otherwise, to a corps or army. If an officer, on being ordered to join, omits to do so willfully, he is liable to be tried by a general court-martial, or to be peremptorily suspended for being absent without leave.

Editors Contribution

  1. joinverb

    Become linked or connected to. Connect points with a line. Unite to form one entity or group. Become a member or employee of something or someone to take part in.

    The tap was joined to a pipe. Join the paragraphs together.

    Etymology: Joint


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 29, 2024  

  2. join

    To cause to unite.

    They did join the two cables together with a connector.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 11, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'JOIN' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1454

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'JOIN' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1229

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'JOIN' in Verbs Frequency: #132

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  1. joni

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of JOIN in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of JOIN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of JOIN in a Sentence

  1. Dan May:

    It was a sweet day in the sense that justice was brought to Patrick Frazee for this brutal, gruesome, senseless murder, it's a sad day that all justice can do is hold Patrick Frazee accountable. We wish Kelsey Berreth were here today. That would be true justice if she could join us today.

  2. Amandeep Sidhu:

    These are guys who just graduated from high school a few years ago, who very specifically want to join the Marines, they could have taken the comparatively easy route and decided to join Sikh Army where dozens and dozens of Sikhs are serving and there's a track record, but they they wanted to be Marines.

  3. Alan Romero:

    The gang controlled the scheduling, and therefore even having a sick child that needed nonstop medical care was secondary to making sure the gang members got their preferred shifts, this was a practice that punished all patrol Deputies that either refused to join the gang or otherwise resisted the gangs far-reaching influence at the Station.

  4. President Barack Obama:

    Communities can start planning for prevention and mitigation efforts more effectively, and hopefully the other thing that happens is that families and parents join with these doctors and nurses to start putting some pressure on elected officials to try to make something happen to reduce the impacts of climate change.

  5. Mike Duncan:

    There must be dramatic changes if Postal Service is to succeed. Mr. DeJoy was selected to be that transformational leader, who can help strengthen the Postal Service for the long term, he is the fifth Postmaster General since 1971 to join the institution from the private sector, and we believe that private sector experience is an asset in identifying ways to improve Postal Service.

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  • انArabic
  • unir-se, afegir-se, unióCatalan, Valencian
  • vstoupit, spojit, stát se členem, připojit seCzech
  • Verbindung, verknüpfen, anschließen, beitreten, zusammenkommen, vereinigenGerman
  • acompañar, juntar, unirseSpanish
  • پیوستنPersian
  • joindre, jointureFrench
  • xuntarGalician
  • csatlakozik, beletorkollik, kötés, összekapcsol, toldás, belép, csatlakozás, találkozik, összekötHungarian
  • միացնել, միանալArmenian
  • sameinaIcelandic
  • unire, aderire, incontrare, aggregarsi, giuntareItalian
  • 接続, 結合, 合流, つなげる, 参加, 加わる, 同伴, つながるJapanese
  • 가입하다Korean
  • cōnectō, iungō, coniungōLatin
  • jungti, įstoti, prisijungti, prisidėti, sujungtiLithuanian
  • iestāties, savienoties, saistīt, apvienot, savienot, apvienoties, pievienoties, vienotiesLatvian
  • kuhuMāori
  • спојка, се приклучува, се здружува, здружува, спој, се зачленува, спојува, спојница, стапува, се придружува, се спојуваMacedonian
  • samenvoegen, lid worden van, samenkomen, toetreden, vervoegen, verenigen, verbindingDutch
  • sammenstilleNorwegian
  • dołączyć się, połączyć się, przystąpić, połączyć, wstępować, wstąpić, łączyć, przyłączyć się, dołączyć, łączyć się, przystępowaćPolish
  • [[juntar]]-[[se]], conexão, juntar, [[juntar]]-[[se]] [[a]], [[entrar]] [[em]], unirPortuguese
  • huñuyQuechua
  • alăturaRomanian
  • соединение, присоединяться, объединяться, соединять, соединяться, объединять, вступать, скреплять, вступить, объединить, скрепить, стык, присоединиться, объединиться, соединить, соединитьсяRussian
  • möta, slå samman, sammanfoga, gå med, komma med, hänga med, följa med, föra samman, foga sammanSwedish
  • kesişmek, birleşmek, katılmak, birleştirmek, bir araya gelmek, çakışmakTurkish
  • 加入Chinese

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