» join

Words people most associate with “join”:

  1. together,
  2. club,
  3. group,
  4. us,
  5. connect

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Noun (2 meanings)

1. the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.

articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction

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2. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.

union, sum, join

Example:
  • “let C be the union of the sets A and B”
join is a type of:
  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
types of join:
  • direct sum (noun) - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets

Verb (5 meanings)

1. become part of; become a member of a group or organization.

to join, fall in, get together

Example:
  • “He joined the Communist Party as a young man”
ways to join:
  • to affiliate (verb) - join in an affiliation
  • to band oneself, league together (verb) - attach oneself to a group
  • to infiltrate, penetrate (verb) - enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
  • to rejoin (verb) - join again
  • to sign up (verb) - join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate, "Sign up for yoga classes"
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  • joiner (noun) - a person who likes to join groups

2. cause to become joined or linked.

to join, bring together

Example:
  • “join these two parts so that they fit together”
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ways to join:
  • to close up, close (verb) - unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
  • to cog (verb) - join pieces of wood with cogs
  • to connect (verb) - join for the purpose of communication
  • to connect (verb) - join by means of communication equipment
  • to fair (verb) - join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
  • to ligate (verb) - join letters in a ligature when writing
  • to match, mate, couple, pair, twin (verb) - bring two objects, ideas, or people together
  • to match (verb) - give or join in marriage
  • to miter (verb) - fit together in a miter joint
  • to mortice, mortise (verb) - join by a tenon and mortise
  • to ply (verb) - join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding
  • to rabbet (verb) - join with a rabbet joint
  • to rebate (verb) - join with a rebate
  • to scarf (verb) - unite by a scarf joint
  • to seam (verb) - put together with a seam
  • to sovietize, sovietise (verb) - bring under Soviet control, of a country
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Cause:
  • to join, conjoin (verb) - make contact or come together

3. come into the company of.

to join

Example:
  • “She joined him for a drink”

4. make contact or come together.

to join, conjoin

Example:
  • “The two roads join here”
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ways to join:
  • to anastomose, inosculate (verb) - come together or open into each other
  • to attach (verb) - become attached
  • to copulate, mate, pair, couple (verb) - engage in sexual intercourse
  • to cross-link (verb) - join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein)
  • to feather (verb) - join tongue and groove, in carpentry
  • to graft, engraft, ingraft (verb) - cause to grow together parts from different plants
  • to knit, entwine (verb) - tie or link together
  • to patch, piece (verb) - to join or unite the pieces of
  • to quilt (verb) - stitch or sew together
  • to solder (verb) - join or fuse with solder
  • to splice (verb) - join together so as to form new genetic combinations
  • to splice (verb) - join the ends of
  • to weld (verb) - join together by heating
  • to yoke (verb) - become joined or linked together
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5. be or become joined or united or linked.

to connect, link, link up, join, unite

Examples:
  • “The two streets connect to become a highway”,
  • “Our paths joined”,
  • “The travelers linked up again at the airport”
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