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Join   /dʒɔɪn/   Listen
Join

verb
(past & past part. joined; pres. part. joining)
1.
Become part of; become a member of a group or organization.  Synonyms: fall in, get together.
2.
Cause to become joined or linked.  Synonym: bring together.
3.
Come into the company of.
4.
Make contact or come together.  Synonym: conjoin.
5.
Be or become joined or united or linked.  Synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite.  "Our paths joined" , "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
noun
1.
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.  Synonyms: articulation, joint, junction, juncture.
2.
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.  Synonyms: sum, union.



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"Join" Quotes from Famous Books



... contagious; the lad's spirit was roused, and he exclaimed warmly: "What do you say? that I am afraid of struggles and trouble? I am ready to stake everything, even my life, only to win fame. But to measure stone, to batter defenceless blocks with a mallet and chisel, or to join the squares with accurate pains—that does not tempt me. I should like to win the wreath in the Palaestra by flinging the strongest to the ground, or surpass all others as a warrior in battle; my father was a soldier too, and he may talk as ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... secret to her than I had meant. The tattered remnant of a single bunch was all my harvest-home. How paltry it looked at the bottom of my basket,—as if a humming-bird had laid her egg in an eagle's nest! I could not help laughing; and the robins seemed to join heartily in the merriment. There was a native grape-vine close by, blue with its less refined abundance, but my cunning thieves preferred the foreign flavor. Could I tax ...
— My Garden Acquaintance • James Russell Lowell
... call of the Emperor Barbarossa, now an old man, sounded throughout the land, and the Knight of Ravensberg did not neglect the opportunity, but hastened forth to join the imperial army. ...
— Legends of the Rhine • Wilhelm Ruland
... away! Send round the Fire of Hes to every chief. Three nights hence at the moonrise bid the Tribes gather—nay, not all, twenty thousand of their best will be enough, the rest shall stay to guard the Mountain and this Sanctuary. Let them bring food with them for fifteen days. I join them at the ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
... ought to serve? It ought not to seem a great thing to me to serve Thee; but rather this appeareth to me a great and wonderful thing, that Thou vouchsafest to receive as Thy servant one so poor and unworthy, and to join him ...
— The Imitation of Christ • Thomas a Kempis


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