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  1. transitive verb To put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit: join two boards with nails; joined hands in a circle.
  2. transitive verb To put or bring into close association or relationship: two families that were joined by marriage; join forces.
  3. transitive verb To connect (points), as with a straight line.

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  • "Mr. Stukey says that pretty soon everybody will join--all but the rich blood-suckers, and they'll be in jail. —  The House of Torchy
  • The young Frenchman and our own fellows will be sure to join, and I think that there's three or four others--maybe more--who'll be glad to get away at any risk We must run the risk, and it isn't a small one," said Croxton. —  Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy
  • I could not, however, be mistaken as to the meaning of their words It might be done; and many's the like deed has been done ere now," observed one of the speakers, whom I suspected to be a fellow of the name of Cobb, the greatest ruffian in the ship And the passengers who won't join--what's to be done with them The immediate answer I did not hear. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
  • Some allowed their servants and dependants to join, and others sent horses, although they themselves thought it prudent not to appear in arms on the Duke's side. —  Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow
  • When they join, the officers may ill-treat them, pull their hair, and strike them with impunity. —  Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English joinen, from Old French joindre, joign-, join-, from Latin iungere; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, French joindre = Pr.jonher, junher, jonjer = It.giugnere, from Latin jungere, past participle junctus (root jug, in jugum, yoke, etc.), = Greek ζευγνύναι (root ζυγ in ζυγόν) = Sanskrityuj, join, later yuga = Greek ζυγόν = Latin jugum = English yoke, q. v. Hence joint,adjoin,conjoin,disjoin, enjoin, rejoin, subjoin, etc., and (from L. directly) adjunct, conjunct, etc., junction, juncture, conjugal, conjugate, subjugate, etc.
  2. from join, v.
 

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