join
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
join/ʤɔɪn/
▶verb
- 1 link or become linked or connected to.
■ form a group; unite.
- 2 become a member or employee of (an organization).
■ (join up) become a member of the armed forces.
■ come into the company of.
- 3 take part in.
■ support (someone) in an activity.
– phrases
join battle formal begin fighting.
join forces combine efforts.
join battle formal begin fighting.
join forces combine efforts.
– derivatives
joinable adjective.
joinable adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. joindre, from L. jungere ‘to join’.
'join' also found in these Oxford entries:
add
- adjoin
- Anschluss
- assert
- associate
- attach
- attack
- bend
- biscuit
- blood knot
- bond
- braze
- butt
- butty
- carrick bend
- clique
- club
- combine
- come
- commit
- conglobulate
- conjoin
- connect
- contingent
- couple
- cross
- crotch
- dock
- dovetail
- elide
- enjoin
- enter
- faggot
- farandole
- fine-draw
- fish
- fisherman's knot
- fit
- fuse
- gang
- glue
- hinge
- hyphen
- inosculate
- insert
- interfuse
- interlink
- interlock
- IRC
- joggle
