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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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=4
, 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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engages English
Verb
( head)
(engage)
- This pedal engages the clutch, until you do that you can't shift.
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