Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A carpenter, especially a cabinetmaker.
- noun Informal A person given to joining groups, organizations, or causes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who joins. Specifically
- noun One whose occupation is to construct things by joining pieces of wood by means of glue, framing, or nails; appropriately and usually, a mechanic who does the wood-work for the internal and external finishings of houses, ships, etc.
- noun In wood-working, a power-tool for sawing, planing, cross-cutting, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, joins.
- noun One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.
- noun A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing that
joins two separate items, e.g.software to connectvideo ormusic clips. - noun A maker of
wooden furniture orfittings .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who likes to join groups
- noun a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
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Examples
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However I have never been much of a 'joiner' - I'm not the follower kinda gal and have never embraced socialism or facism or even religion without some kind of balance.
The Nazi In Me Newmania 2007
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He was not a joiner, which is one of the reasons he was more revered than the existentialist and communist Jean-Paul Sartre, even though Sartre lived through and even participated in the sixties student movements.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004
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In the northern masters there is no appearance of what M. Ernest Dupuy calls the joiner-work of the French fictionalists; and there is, in the process, no joiner-work in Zola, but the final effect is joiner-work.
Emile Zola William Dean Howells 1878
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"I want to hear what Mr. Jarvis has to say to it: he's a carpenter himself, you see, -- a joiner, that is, you know."
The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864
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doggdot.us 2008
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Around 1910 during the silent film era, one of the only creative opportunities available to women was working as a "joiner," patiently organizing and splicing together strips of silent film in one of the studio's editorial rooms.
Candy Spelling: Chipping Away at the Celluloid Ceiling Candy Spelling 2011
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"I'm not much of a" joiner "but I read about 30 plus publications, blogs and magazines a day," offers Ms. Merchant.
Nilofer Merchant 2008
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However, the "joiner" application was filed late on Wednesday for the court to consider.
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Call that outcome anything that a professional "joiner" could claim?
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"And then this creature, after a billion years of total intellectual solitude, becomes a 'joiner' as soon as he encounters humanity!"
Misinformation Myers, Howard L 2003
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