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CONJOIN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make contact or come together

Example:

The two roads join here

Synonyms:

conjoin; join

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "conjoin" is one way to...):

connect; link; link up; tie (connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conjoin"):

entwine; knit (tie or link together)

quilt (stitch or sew together)

weld (join together by heating)

solder (join or fuse with solder)

patch; piece (to join or unite the pieces of)

splice (join the ends of)

splice (join together so as to form new genetic combinations)

engraft; graft; ingraft (cause to grow together parts from different plants)

yoke (become joined or linked together)

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

anastomose; inosculate (come together or open into each other)

cross-link (join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein))

attach (become attached)

feather (join tongue and groove, in carpentry)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

conjunctive (serving or tending to connect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take in marriage

Synonyms:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "conjoin" is one way to...):

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Verb group:

marry; splice; tie; wed (perform a marriage ceremony)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conjoin"):

inmarry (marry within one's own tribe or group)

mismarry (marry an unsuitable partner)

wive (marry a woman, take a wife)

wive (take (someone) as a wife)

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

remarry (marry, not for the first time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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 Context examples: 

January 2-3 will be special because your ruler good-fortune planet Jupiter will conjoin Mercury.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Directly after the eclipse, we come to your next big day, the Luckiest Day of the Year due on December 27, when the mighty Sun will conjoin Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Last month we had the Luckiest Day of the Year on December 27, when Jupiter conjoined the Sun in your sixth house of work and health.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Jupiter will conjoin the eclipse within one degree, and at the same time, Uranus, in your communication and travel sector, will send a beam to this eclipse.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Last month, Uranus opposed the tender new moon and conjoined the Sun, a very tough set of aspects on October 27.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Over the weekend of March 7-8, Venus will conjoin Uranus, setting off a sparkling weekend sure to be filled with romantic surprises.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An unexpected windfall might be yours over the weekend of March 7-8 when Venus, your ruler, conjoins surprise-a-minute Uranus in your eighth house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It will be 36 years until both these planets will again conjoin there—not until February 2056.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The last time Mars conjoined Jupiter in Capricorn was in October of 1984, and the next time will be in February of 2056.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A trip could be especially exciting and romantic over the weekend of March 7-8 when Venus and Uranus, the planet of surprise, will conjoin and set off pretty fireworks in the evening sky.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)