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Joining

Join \Join\ (join), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Joined (joind); p. pr. & vb. n. Joining.] [OE. joinen, joignen, F. joindre, fr. L. jungere to yoke, bind together, join; akin to jugum yoke. See Yoke, and cf. Conjugal, Junction, Junta.]

  1. To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

    Woe unto them that join house to house.
    --Is. v. 8.

    Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined.
    --Shak.

    Thy tuneful voice with numbers join.
    --Dryden.

  2. To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.

    We jointly now to join no other head.
    --Dryden.

  3. To unite in marriage.

    He that joineth his virgin in matrimony.
    --Wyclif.

    What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
    --Matt. xix. 6.

  4. To enjoin upon; to command. [Obs. & R.]

    They join them penance, as they call it.
    --Tyndale.

  5. To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
    --Milton.

  6. To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.

  7. To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.

    To join battle, To join issue. See under Battle, Issue.

    Syn: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See Add.

Wiktionary
joining

n. The act or result of joining; a joint or juncture. vb. (present participle of join English)

WordNet
joining

n. the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" [syn: connection, connexion]

Usage examples of "joining".

Joining in the conversation also helped to take her mind off the nightmarish phantasm that was now abiding somewhere within her unsettled self.

The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.

Blaye with a cargo of wine, and had taken our discharge, and were now bound for Agen to see our families, before joining the force that the Viscount de Rouillac, under whom our father held a farm, would no doubt be putting in the field.

There can be no such conjunction, no amalgamation of interests, until a railway shall have been made joining the Canada Grand Trunk Line with the two outlying colonies.

Singular though it may seem, Winterbourne was vexed that the young girl, in joining her amoroso, should not appear more impatient of his own company, and he was vexed because of his inclination.

The Wickans rode at either side, desperately trying to contain the human river, and Duiker could now see among them soldiers in the uniform of the Aren City Garrison joining in the effort.

The axiom asserts that the rect joining the two event-particles of intersection of the diagonals is parallel to the rect on which the bases lie.

Thus she laughed and mocked, and the Basha, hearing her, took shame of his crawling fears, and made a poor show of joining her.

They were mine to take, to kill then and there or to bring back to Palmaris for public trial, one over which both King Danube and Father Abbot Markwart might have presided, that their alliance, the glory of that joining, be revealed to the beleaguered populace of Palmaris.

When the peasants of the neighborhood, joining with those of Montegnac, came, one by one, to lay upon their benefactress the customary palm, together with their last farewell mingled with prayers and tears, they saw the man of justice, crushed by grief, holding the hand of the woman whom, without intending it, he had so cruelly but so justly stricken.

Andrew and Bitten looked as if the notion of Albert joining us was not terribly appealing.

I see for Colonel Bogey perhaps the basic stores and tool pack which are given to a star-world settler joining a colony.

He turned right to walk along Union to King, then turned left up the hill into the chichi shopping district, joining the throngs of people who had begun the evening promenade on both sides of King.

Their houses are digged round about with earth, and have from the uttermost brims of the circle, clifts of wood set upon them, joining close together at the top like a spire steeple, which by reason of that closeness are very warm.

To drown out criticism, the Coquettes and their male counterparts began to sing a mock-worshipful hymn to the Kokotte, set to a tune so bumptiously catchy that the crowd was soon joining in the choruses.