join

/dʒɔɪn/

/dʒɔɪn/

Other forms: joined; joining; joins

To join is to connect, attach, or become a member of. You could join two puzzle pieces together or join the Girl Scouts; it's your choice.

You can join two plastic tubes to make a long tunnel for your pet hamster, and you can also join a club — in other words, become a member or a part of the group. You can also join in with a song or join the staff of a swimming pool as a lifeguard. Join comes from the Old French word joindre, "connect or unite," from the Latin root iungere, "to join together, unite, or yoke."

Definitions of join

1. verb

   cause to become joined or linked
   “join these two parts so that they fit together”

   synonyms: bring together

   antonyms:

   disjoin

   make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

   types:

   ancylose, ankylose

   produce ankylosis by surgery

   connect

   join for the purpose of communication

   connect

   join by means of communication equipment

   miter

   fit together in a miter joint

   ply

   join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding

   close, close up

   unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of

   anastomose, inosculate

   cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis

   couple, match, mate, pair, twin

   bring two objects, ideas, or people together

   match

   give or join in marriage

   mortice, mortise

   join by a tenon and mortise

   cog

   join pieces of wood with cogs

   fair

   join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly

   scarf

   unite by a scarf joint

   rebate

   join with a rebate

   rabbet

   join with a rabbet joint

   seam

   put together with a seam

   bridge

   make a bridge across

   close

   bring together all the elements or parts of

   ligate

   join letters in a ligature when writing

   assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together

   create by putting components or members together

   sovietise, sovietize

   bring under Soviet control, of a country

   mismate

   provide with an unsuitable mate

   mismatch

   match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together

   stitch, suture

   join with a suture

   comfit, confect, confection

   make into a confection

   confuse, jumble, mix up

   assemble without order or sense

   reassemble

   assemble once again, after taking something apart

   configure

   set up for a particular purpose

   compound

   create by mixing or combining

   rig up

   erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure

   type of:

   connect, link, link up, tie

   connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
2. verb

   make contact or come together
   “The two roads join here”

   synonyms: conjoin

   antonyms:

   disjoin

   become separated, disconnected or disjoint

   types:

   feather

   join tongue and groove, in carpentry

   attach

   become attached

   cross-link

   join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein)

   anastomose, inosculate

   come together or open into each other

   yoke

   become joined or linked together

   engraft, graft, ingraft

   cause to grow together parts from different plants

   splice

   join together so as to form new genetic combinations

   splice

   join the ends of

   patch, piece

   to join or unite the pieces of

   solder

   join or fuse with solder

   weld

   join together by heating

   quilt

   stitch or sew together

   entwine, knit

   tie or link together

   nick

   mate successfully; of livestock

   agglutinate

   string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

   implant

   become attached to and embedded in the uterus

   fasten

   become fixed or fastened

   adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to

   stick to firmly

   have intercourse, have sex, love, roll in the hay

   have sexual intercourse with

   tread

   mate with

   serve, service

   mate with

   spat

   become permanently attached

   vamp, vamp up

   piece (something old) with a new part

   dip solder

   solder by immersion in a bath of molten solder

   soft-solder

   repair with soft-solder

   braze

   solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point

   spot-weld, spotweld

   make circular welds

   butt-weld, buttweld

   join by a butt weld

   purl stitch

   make with purl stitches

   intertwine, loop

   make a loop in

   type of:

   connect, link, link up, tie

   connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
3. verb

   be or become joined or united or linked
   “Our paths joined”

   synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite

   types:

   syndicate

   join together into a syndicate

   articulate

   unite by forming a joint or joints

   complect, interconnect, interlink

   be interwoven or interconnected

   intercommunicate

   be interconnected, afford passage
4. noun

   the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
   synonyms: articulation, joint, junction, juncture

   types:

   esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction

   the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium

   type of:

   connection, connexion, link

   a connecting shape
5. noun

   a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
   synonyms: sum, union

   types:

   direct sum

   a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets

   type of:

   set

   a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
6. verb

   come into the company of
7. verb

   become part of; become a member of a group or organization
   synonyms: fall in, get together

   types:

   sign up

   join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate, "Sign up for yoga classes"

   band oneself, league together

   attach oneself to a group

   organise, organize, unionise, unionize

   form or join a union

   affiliate

   join in an affiliation

   rejoin

   connect or put together again

   infiltrate, penetrate

   enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members

   unify, unite

   act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

   league

   unite to form a league

   federalise, federalize, federate

   unite on a federal basis or band together as a league

   enlist

   join the military

   confederate

   form a confederation with; of nations

   ally with

   unite formally; of interest groups or countries

   associate, consociate

   bring or come into association or action

   band together, confederate

   form a group or unite

   reunify, reunite

   unify again, as of a country

   conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed

   take in marriage

   couple, pair, pair off, partner off

   form a pair or pairs

   club

   unite with a common purpose