Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to join
Participle: joined
Gerund: joining
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | join |
| you | join |
| he;she;it | joins |
| we | join |
| you | join |
| they | join |
Perfect
| I | have joined |
| you | have joined |
| he;she;it | has joined |
| we | have joined |
| you | have joined |
| they | have joined |
Past
| I | joined |
| you | joined |
| he;she;it | joined |
| we | joined |
| you | joined |
| they | joined |
Pluperfect
| I | had joined |
| you | had joined |
| he;she;it | had joined |
| we | had joined |
| you | had joined |
| they | had joined |
Future
| I | will join |
| you | will join |
| he;she;it | will join |
| we | will join |
| you | will join |
| they | will join |
Future Perfect
| I | will have joined |
| you | will have joined |
| he;she;it | will have joined |
| we | will have joined |
| you | will have joined |
| they | will have joined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | join |
| you | join |
| he;she;it | join |
| we | join |
| you | join |
| they | join |
Perfect
| I | have joined |
| you | have joined |
| he;she;it | have joined |
| we | have joined |
| you | have joined |
| they | have joined |
Imperfect
| I | joined |
| you | joined |
| he;she;it | joined |
| we | joined |
| you | joined |
| they | joined |
Pluperfect
| I | had joined |
| you | had joined |
| he;she;it | had joined |
| we | had joined |
| you | had joined |
| they | had joined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would join |
| you | would join |
| he;she;it | would join |
| we | would join |
| you | would join |
| they | would join |
Perfect
| I | would have joined |
| you | would have joined |
| he;she;it | would have joined |
| we | would have joined |
| you | would have joined |
| they | would have joined |
Imperative
| you | join |
| we | Let's join |
| you | join |
Verbs conjugated like 'join'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'join'
coin,
foin,
joik,
joint,
roin,
adjoin,
bein,
bin,
blin,
boil,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to join as if by grafting
- graft
- to combine more than one item into one
- accouple, affix, associate, attach, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch, combine, conglomerate, conglutinate, conjoin, connect, couple, entwine, fay, fix, graft, hitch, hook, inosculate, interlink, joint, knit, knot, link, marry, put together, splice, unite, wed, yoke
- to connect two or more things
- link
- connect or assemble pieces
- screw
- unite closely
- knot
- hold in place
- fix
- to join or unite closely
- fay
- to join together
- conjoin, couple
- attach
- link, unite, couple, connect, combine, consolidate, confederate
- shut as if with a clasp
- clasp
- fasten securely
- clinch
- to link two or more things together
- interlink
- join together
- conglutinate
- to unite closely and intimately
- bewed
- To bind fast to something, or together.
- pinion
- to take as one's spouse
- bewed, conjoin, couple, espouse, handfast, hitch, marry, splice, wed
- to give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole
- add, assist, bestow, bring, chip in, do one's bit, donate, endow, fund, gift, grant, impart, invest, kick in, lend, participate, pitch in, pledge, provide, put up, set forward, supply, support, sweeten the kitty, contribute
- wed
- marry, couple, mate, unite
Antonyms
- to split into two or more parts
- annex, coalesce, combine, merge, divide, unify, unite
- to combine more than one item into one
- detach, disconnect, disjoin, unfasten
- To split into parts.
- divide, integrate
- to disunite a thing from another thing
- adhere, disconnect
- to cause to be separate; to make one item into two (or more)
- disjoin
- attach
- detach, disconnect, disjoin, separate
Additional Information
Etymology
1. 1297, from O.Fr.
joindre, from L.
jungere "to join, yoke," from PIE
*yeug- "to join, unite" (see jugular). A
joiner (1386) was a craftsman who did lighter and more ornamental work than a carpenter.
Join up "enlist in the army" is from 1916. Phrase
if you can't beat them, join them is from 1955.
Out of joint in the fig. sense is from 1415.
2. From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke. See: Middle English '
joinen', Old French '
joindre', Latin '
iungō'.
Verbs referencing "join"
Ido juntar, Lithuanian
jungti, Zulu
joyina, Papiamento
djòin, Cornish
junya.
Sample Sentences
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[...] I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours,—I always felt it was,—I always thought so when I was a girl,—I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over,—I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom—fool that I was ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Except when a branch road joins the main one, there is seldom more than one track of rails; so that the road is very narrow, and the view, where there is a deep cutting, by no means extensive. When there is not, the character of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘What did he call you back to say to you, in that strange flutter ? ’ I asked of my conductor, when he had locked the door and joined me in the passage.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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At eight o’clock, the shelves being taken down and put away and the tables joined together, everybody sat down to the tea, coffee, bread, butter, salmon, shad, liver, steak, potatoes, pickles, ham, chops, black-puddings, and sausages, all over again. Some were fond of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The bank is very steep, and was slippery with rain, and half-melted ice. I hardly know how I got down, but I was soon at the bottom, and climbing, with two English officers who were crossing and had joined me, over some broken rocks, deafened by the noise, half-blinded by the spray, and wet to the skin. We were at the foot of the American Fall. I could see an immense torrent of water tearing [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Lord help us, they are perfect devils ! ” said Marks, heading the retreat down the rocks with much more of a will than he had joined the ascent, while all the party came tumbling precipitately after him,—the fat constable, in particular, blowing and puffing in a very energetic manner.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] greater part is nothing but an accident ! Your father, for example, settles in Vermont, in a town where all are, in fact, free and equal; becomes a regular church member and deacon, and in due time joins an Abolition society, and thinks us all little better than heathens. Yet he is, for all the world, in constitution and habit, a duplicate of my father. I can see it leaking out in fifty different [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] course of self-indulgence, had nothing to support the terror of the shock, and, at the time her husband breathed his last, was passing from one fainting fit to another; and he to whom she had been joined in the mysterious tie of marriage passed from her forever, without the possibility of even a parting word.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia, with characteristic strength and self-control, had remained with her kinsman to the last,—all eye, all ear, all attention; doing everything of the little that could be done, and joining with her whole soul in the tender and impassioned prayers which the poor slave had poured forth for the soul of his dying master.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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A few days after, Tom was standing musing by the balconies, when he was joined by Adolph, who, since the death of his master, had been entirely crest-fallen and disconsolate. Adolph knew that he had always been an object of dislike to Marie; but while his master lived he had [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)