joining
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’.
'joining' also found in these Oxford entries:
accession
- adjunction
- articulate
- beam
- bellows
- buckle
- capillary joint
- chalaza
- channel
- cheekpiece
- chord
- collarbone
- conjunct
- contour
- cornerstone
- corpus callosum
- diagonal
- dorsoventral
- elision
- envelope
- flying squirrel
- harmony
- jointer
- junction
- Klein bottle
- ligation
- linking
- Möbius strip
- mull
- parabiosis
- phase angle
- plane
- polar
- print
- ramp
- recombination
- riser
- screw coupling
- shroud
- shunt
- side road
- slip stitch
- solder
- stretcher
- synapse
- tombolo
- washer
- weaver's knot
- world line
- zygo-
