a place where two or more things have been joined together; to come together
unite
Cases of word usage
1) (a substance, e.g. glue, that is) able to stick or join (adhesive)
2) (of a society or an institution, or a member) to join officially (affiliate)
3) (to cause businesses, societies, groups of people) to join together (amalgamate)
4) to fasten or join (something) (to another) (attach)
5) (to cause things) to join together (combine)
6) a word used to join other words, clauses etc such as and, but, because (conjunction)
7) serving to join (connective)
8) to join with others in giving (help, money, ideas, suggestions etc) (contribute)
9) the verb 'be' when used to join a subject to its compliment, as in 'The baby is a boy', 'It is Thursday today' (copula)
10) the mark ( - ) used to join two words together, as in Anglo-French, between syllables, as in co-op, or to divide a word at the end of a written or printed line, as in hy-phen (hyphen)