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Joined   /dʒɔɪnd/   Listen
verb
Join  v. t.  (past & past part. joined; pres. part. joining)  
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." "Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined." "Thy tuneful voice with numbers join."
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."
3.
To unite in marriage. "He that joineth his virgin in matrimony." "What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
4.
To enjoin upon; to command. (Obs. & R.) "They join them penance, as they call it."
5.
To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
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.
Synonyms: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See Add.


Join  v. i.  To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join; two rivers join. "Whose house joined hard to the synagogue." "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?" "Nature and fortune joined to make thee great."


adjective
joined  adj.  
1.
Married. Antonym: unmarried.
Synonyms: united.
2.
Connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks.
Synonyms: coupled, linked.
3.
Connected by or sharing a wall with another building.





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"Joined" Quotes from Famous Books



... narrow staircase, which leads to the top of the gate, and thence up to the towers. Four long grooves in the facade, reaching to a third of its height, correspond to four quadrangular openings cut through. the whole thickness of the masonry. Here were fixed four great wooden masts, formed of joined beams and held in place by a wooden framework fixed in the four openings above mentioned. From these masts floated long streamers of various colours (fig. 79). Such was the temple of Khonsu, and such, in their main features, were the ...
— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
... On June 26 she again sailed for the Mediterranean, carrying the flag of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who was then going out to succeed Sir Edward Codrington in command of the Mediterranean station. On August 24 she joined the ...
— The Surrender of Napoleon • Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland
... an artificial taste and has to be cultivated. These at any rate were uncivilized -trout, and it was only when we took the advice of the young McGregor and baited our hooks with the angleworm, that the fish joined in our day's sport. They could not resist the lively wiggle of the worm before their very noses, and we lifted them out one after an other, gently, and very much as if we were hooking them out of a barrel, until we had a handsome string. It may have ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... report of the speeches delivered for the Tribune. I did make a few paragraphs of what Lincoln said in the first eight or ten minutes, but I became so absorbed in his magnetic oratory that I forgot myself and ceased to take notes, and joined with the convention in cheering and stamping and clapping to the end ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... Tait, Dr. M'Leod, and Dr. Muir, 'must crystallize the piety and the hopes of the Scottish Church.' What a superb figure! Only think of the Rev. Dr. Muir as of a thread in a piece of sugar candy, and the piety of the Dean of Faculty and Mr. Penney, joined to that of some four or five hundred respectable ladies of both sexes besides, all sticking out around him in cubes, hexagons, and prisms, like cleft almonds in a bishop-cake. Hardly inferior in the figurative is the passage which follows: 'The Doctor (Dr. Chalmers) rides on at a rickety trot,—Messrs. ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller


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