Join vs Fasten - What's the difference?
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To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
To come together; to meet.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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.
* , chapter=22
, title= (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
To unite in marriage.
* (John Wycliffe) (1320-1384)
* Bible, (w) xix. 6
(obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
* (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
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 .
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between join and fasten
is that join is to combine more than one item into one; to put together while fasten is to attach or connect in a secure manner.As a noun join
is an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.join
English
Verb
(en verb)- Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.
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.}}
- he that joineth his virgin in matrimony
- What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- They join them penance, as they call it.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* (to combine more than one item into one) bewed, connect, fay, uniteNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (lowest upper bound) meetDerived terms
* antijoin * autojoin * cross join * equijoin * explicit join * implicit join * inner join * left join * natural join * outer join * right join * semijoin * theta joinfasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him