Definition of "join"

join

/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

noun
plural joins
1. An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
  Quotations
  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.
  2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, page 313
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.
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  The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
  2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference
5. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
verb
third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined
1. (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
2. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
3. (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
  Quotations
  Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with meAnd we will triumph ouer al the world.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
  […] Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
  c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2
4. (transitive) To come into the company of.
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  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.
  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., page 46
5. (transitive) To become a member of.
  Quotations
  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.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
6. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
7. To unite in marriage.
  Quotations
  Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
  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 […], folio xiii, recto
  […] this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell […]
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 2
  What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put aſunder.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 19:6, column 2
8. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
  Quotations
  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
9. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
  Quotations
  Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’dAnd cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
  On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

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