# join

Pronunciation: say "JOYN" /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

## Verb

1. To become a member of a group, organization, or body.
   - Simple: To become a member of a group, club, or team.
   - _Hundreds of volunteers join the charity every spring._
   - _He joined the local orchestra as a second violinist._
2. To come into the company of someone, accompanying them where they are.
   - Simple: To go and be with someone where they already are.
   - _Feel free to join me on the balcony for some fresh air._
   - _The ambassador joined the other guests in the reception hall._
3. To come together with others in an alliance or association, uniting for a shared aim.
   - Simple: To work together with others for the same goal.
   - _Farmers and environmental groups decided to join together to stop the pipeline, despite years of disagreement._
   - _Neighboring states joined in opposing the trade restrictions._
4. To connect or combine two or more things into one, or to become connected; to come together or meet at a point.
   - Simple: To put things together, or to come together at one place.
   - _Welders join steel beams to form the frame of a building._
   - _The two rivers join just south of the town._
5. To accept or enter into a contest, especially armed combat.
   - Simple: To begin or take part in a fight or contest.
   - _Rival commanders rarely join battle without scouting the ground first._
   - _The two fleets joined battle off the cape at first light._
8. To combine rows from two or more database tables, usually by matching values in related columns.
   - Simple: To combine the data of two or more database tables.
   - _You can join the orders table to the products table on the product ID._
   - _Analysts joined the two datasets to find overlapping records._
10. To unite two people in marriage.
   - Simple: To bring two people together as a married couple.
   - _An old family friend agreed to join the two of them in marriage._
   - _The minister joined the bride and groom before a hundred guests._

## Noun

6. A place or line where two things are joined together, such as pieces of material, pipes, or wires; a junction.
   - Simple: The place where two things are fixed or connected together.
   - _A neat join in the wallpaper is almost impossible to spot._
   - _The crack appeared right at the join of the two slabs._
7. The act of connecting to or becoming part of something, such as a network.
   - Simple: The act of connecting to something, such as a network.
   - _A failed join left the laptop offline for several minutes._
   - _The router logs every join to the wireless network._
9. A database operation, or its result, that combines rows from two or more tables, usually by matching values in related columns.
   - Simple: A way of combining information from two or more tables in a database.
   - _The query used a join across the orders and customers tables._
   - _Each additional join increased the report's running time._

## Verb

11. To lay a command upon someone; to impose a duty as a charge. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To order someone to do something.

## Other meanings

- (noun) The least upper bound of a pair of elements in a lattice, written with the symbol ∨.

## Origin

From Middle English joinen, from Old French joindre, from Latin iungō ("to join, yoke"), which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ("to join, unite"). It is related to the English word yoke.

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