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Join vs Conjunct - What's the difference?

join | conjunct |

As nouns the difference between join and conjunct

is that join is an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect while conjunct is (logic) either term of a conjunction.

As a verb join

is to combine more than one item into one; to put together.

As an adjective conjunct is

conjoined.

join

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
  • To come together; to meet.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.
  • To come into the company of.
  • *
    • , 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.
  • * , 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.
  • 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.
    • (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

    conjunct

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) Either term of a conjunction
  • * {{quote-journal, 2007, date=July 14, Timothy Chan, Belief, assertion and Moore’s Paradox, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9130-z, volume=139, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=Asserting a conjunction would be irrational if the epistemic grounds for one conjunct' defeat those for the other, for example when the two ' conjuncts are logically inconsistent. }}
  • (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content, that connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse, as "therefore" in "It was raining. Therefore, we didn't go swimming."

    • Holonyms

    * (in logic) conjunction

    Adjective

    (-)
  • conjoined
    • Set A is conjunct with set B.
  • acting together; collaborative

    • Antonyms

    * (conjoined) disjunct