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Junction

noun

The place where two or more things come together.

The state of being joined together. Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, conjunction.

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made. Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture.

Something that joins or connects. Synonym: conjunction.

An act of joining or adjoining things. Synonym: adjunction.

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"Junction" Quotes from Famous Books

... her first love-affair. It was with a young man who sold what he called art-goods by sample—satin banners, gilt rolling-pins, brass disks and keramics; he had permitted himself to speak to her on the train coming over from the Junction, where she took the cars for Pymantoning one afternoon after a day's shopping with her mother in Lakeland. It did not last very long, and in fact it hardly survived the brief stay which the young man made in Pymantoning, where his want of success in art-goods ...

— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells

... left, and at the same time move the thumb swiftly over the face of the coin till the top joint passes its outer edge, then bend the thumb, and the coin will be found to be securely nipped between that joint and the junction of the thumb with the hand. As in the last case, the left hand must be closed the moment the right hand touches it; and the right must thenceforth be held with the thumb bent slightly inward toward the palm, so that ...

— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort

... town of some 400 people, is situated in the northern part of the county on the Columbia river east of its junction with the Okanogan river, and is an important wheat-shipping point, having a regular steamboat service. A bank, flour mill, warehouses and general stores are serving the community, but ...

— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell

... that he has risen from the sepulcher.' After this a little dramatic action was introduced almost as a matter of course. One priest dressed in white robes sat, to represent the angel, by one of the square-built tombs near the junction of nave and transept, and three others, personating the Marys, advanced slowly toward him while they chanted their portion of the same dialog. As the last momentous words of the angel died away a jubilant 'Te Deum' burst ...

— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... the keening and wailing, say at Limerick Junction, over Paddy going over the water will forget the appealing sorrow of the scene, the sound of which rings long in one's ears after the train has ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

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