joins English
Verb
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(join)
Noun
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join English
Verb
( en verb)
To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
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To come together; to meet.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
- Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.
To come into the company of.
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, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
To become a member of.
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* , chapter=22
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined . One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
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To unite in marriage.
* (John Wycliffe) (1320-1384)
- he that joineth his virgin in matrimony
* Bible, (w) xix. 6
- What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
(obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
* (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
- They join them penance, as they call it.
To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
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- (Milton)
Synonyms
* (to combine more than one item into one) bewed, connect, fay, unite
Noun
( en noun)
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
(computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
(algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol .
Antonyms
* (lowest upper bound) meet
Derived terms
* antijoin
* autojoin
* cross join
* equijoin
* explicit join
* implicit join
* inner join
* left join
* natural join
* outer join
* right join
* semijoin
* theta join
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combine English
Verb
( combin)
To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
* (John Dryden)
- You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
- So sweet did harp and voice combine .
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=( American Scientist)
, title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined , including combat.}}
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To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
To come together; to unite.
- two substances that easily combine
(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
* (William Shakespeare)
- I am combined by a sacred vow.
Derived terms
* combination
* combinable
* combinatory
* combined
* recombine
Synonyms
* fuse
* merge
* unite
Antonyms
* divide
* separate
* disunite
Noun
( en noun)
A combine harvester
- We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
A combination
# Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.
- The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .
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