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[ verb ] become part of; become a member of a group or organization
Synonyms Examples "He joined the Communist Party as a young man" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Fifty-three of the 150 representatives immediately joined Grover as co-signers of the proposal . (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Pitcher Steve_Barber joined the club one week ago after completing his hitch under the Army 's accelerated wintertime military course , also at Fort_Knox , Ky. . (The Dallas Morning News,...)Halfback Bud_Priddy , slowed for almost a month by a slowly mending sprained ankle , joined TCU 's workout Monday . (The New York Times,...)Shea , the chairman of Mayor_Wagner_'s_Baseball_Committee , will be joined on the dais by Warren_Spahn , the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee_Braves ; Frank_Graham , the Journal-American sports columnist ; Bill_Mazeroski , the World_Series hero of the Pittsburgh_Pirates , and Casey_Stengel , the former manager of the Yankees . (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Mrs._Shaefer never got_around_to joining the thousand or_so people who paid Lee some $ 30000 for his ozone machines . Related terms unite rejoin sign_up unionize infiltrate affiliate band_oneself affiliate joiner |
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[ verb ] cause to become joined or linked
Synonyms Examples "join these two parts so that they fit together" Used in print (McCall's Needlework and Crafts, Spring-Summer,...)Place clay piece A inside ; use slip to join overlapped ends together . Join B to bottom of A , scoring and reinforcing with clay coil . Score one side of disk D , join to C ; score other side of D and one side of disk E and join as before . Score one side of disk D , join to C ; score other side of D and one side of disk E and join as before . Join the four sides together first , then add the base ; add top last . |
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[ verb ] come into the company of
Examples "She joined him for a drink" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The spectacular Mays , who reaches a decade in the big_leagues come May 25 , joined six other sluggers who walloped four home_runs in a span of nine innings . |
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[ verb ] make contact or come together
Synonyms Examples "The two roads join here" Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The separate layers are joined together by hydrogen_bonds . |
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[ verb ] be or become joined or united or linked
Examples "The two streets connect to become a highway" "Our paths joined" "The travelers linked up again at the airport" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts . Related terms intercommunicate complect syndicate union articulation linkage |
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[ noun ] the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
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[ noun ] a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
Examples "let C be the union of the sets A and B" Related terms |
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