join

The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.

We joined our efforts to get an even better result.

(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.

Parallel lines never join.

These two rivers join in about 80 miles.

(intransitive) To come together; to meet.

Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
And 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, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

[…]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, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2:

(intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.

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

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., →OCLC, page 46:

(transitive) To come into the company of.

Many children join a sports club.

Most politicians have joined a party.

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, →OCLC:

By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.

(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.

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 […], →OCLC, 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, →OCLC, [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, […], →OCLC, Matthew 19:6, column 2:

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

1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio Cxj, recto:

(obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.

to join encounter, battle, or issue

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
And 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, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:

On the rough edge of battel ere it joyn'd.

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:

en-verb

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past and past participle joined)

joins (present singular third-person)
joining (participle present)
joined (participle past)
joined (past)
join (infinitive)

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

وَصَلَ

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

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

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, →DOI, page 313:

An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.

An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

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

2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference:

(computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.

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

съедине́ние

an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect