join
pronunciation
How to pronounce join in British English:
UK [dʒɔɪn]
How to pronounce join in American English:
US [dʒɔɪn]
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- Noun:
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
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- Verb:
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- cause to become joined or linked
- come into the company of
- make contact or come together
- be or become joined or united or linked
Word Origin
- join
- join: [13] Join goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European *jug- (which also produced English adjust, conjugal, jostle, joust, jugular, juxtapose, subjugate, yoga, and yoke). Its Latin descendant was jungere ‘join’, which passed into English via joign-, the present stem of Old French joindre. The Latin past participial stem junct- gave English junction [18] and juncture [14], and also, via Spanish, junta [17] (etymologically a body of people ‘joined’ together for a particular purpose, hence a ‘governing committee’).=> adjust, conjugal, joust, jugular, junction, junta, juxtapose, subjugate, yoga, yoke
- join (v.)
- c. 1300, from stem of Old French joindre "join, connect, unite; have sexual intercourse with" (12c.), from Latin iungere "to join together, unite, yoke," from PIE *yeug- "to join, unite" (see jugular). Related: Joined; joining. In Middle English, join sometimes is short for enjoin. Join up "enlist in the army" is from 1916. Phrase if you can't beat them, join them is from 1953. To be joined at the hip figuratively ("always in close connection") is by 1986, from the literal sense in reference to "Siamese twins."
Example
- 1. May I join in the conversation ?
- 2. The president had arranged to join a picnic party .
- 3. Technology allows poor people to join the global market .
- 4. The 60-strong staff of the fund will join blackstone .
- 5. Essentially , this query is an inner join , only less efficient .