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Join

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

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Broader term 14

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Connection 76% connected

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connexion 76% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Pertain 76% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Manner of action 54

Affiliate 76% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Anastomose 76% connected

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.

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Ankylose 76% connected

Same as Anchylose.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Assemble 76% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Attach 76% connected

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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Bridge 76% connected

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passagewa…

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Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Cog 76% connected

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

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Cohere 76% connected

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

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Connect 76% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Copulate 76% connected

Joined; associated; coupled.

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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Engraft 76% connected

See Ingraft.

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Entwine 76% connected

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

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Fair 76% connected

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

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Feather 76% connected

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

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Graft 76% connected

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but th…

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Infiltrate 76% connected

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

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Ingraft 76% connected

To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert o…

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Inosculate 76% connected

To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

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Interlink 76% connected

To link together; to join, as one chain to another.

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Knit 76% connected

of Knit

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Ligate 76% connected

To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Mingle 76% connected

To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse…

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Miter 76% connected

Alt. of Mitre

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Mortise 76% connected

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.

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Organize 76% connected

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Osculate 76% connected

To kiss.

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Pair 76% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

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Participate 76% connected

Acting in common; participating.

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Patch 76% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Quilt 76% connected

Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two c…

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Rabbet 76% connected

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

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Rebate 76% connected

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

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Rejoin 76% connected

To join again; to unite after separation.

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Scarf 76% connected

A cormorant.

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Seam 76% connected

Grease; tallow; lard.

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Solder 76% connected

A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

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Splice 76% connected

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an en…

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Syndicate 76% connected

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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Tack 76% connected

A stain; a tache.

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Twin 76% connected

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

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Unify 76% connected

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Weld 76% connected

To wield.

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Yoke 76% connected

A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.

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Derivationally related 6

Adjunction 74% connected

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

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Adjunction 74% connected

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

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Conjunctive 74% connected

Serving to unite; connecting together.

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Conjunctive 74% connected

Serving to unite; connecting together.

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Connexion 74% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Connexion 74% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Causes 1

Conjoin 72% connected

To join together; to unite.

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Synonym 10

Articulation 92% connected

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

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Conjoin 92% connected

To join together; to unite.

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Connect 92% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Joint 92% connected

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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Junction 92% connected

The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

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Juncture 92% connected

A joining; a union; an alliance.

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Link 92% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Sum 92% connected

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…

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Union 92% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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Unite 92% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Antonym 2

Disjoin 94% connected

To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

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Disjoin 94% connected

To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

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