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Join vs Rejoin - What's the difference?

join | rejoin |

As verbs the difference between join and rejoin

is that join is to combine more than one item into one; to put together while rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation.

As a noun join

is an intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

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

    rejoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To join again; to unite after separation.
  • To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  • * (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,
    • Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
  • * , Episode 16
    • The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.}}
  • (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
  • (archaic): To answer to a reply.
  • (legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  • (patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

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