joining
present participle ofjoin
| 单词 | joining |
| 释义 | joining present participle ofjoin join verb uk/dʒɔɪn/us/dʒɔɪn/joinverb(CONNECT)B1[T] toconnectorfastenthings together: Alongsuspensionbridgejoins the twoislands. Join the twopiecestogetherusingstrongglue. Theislandis joinedtothemainlandby aroadbridge. If you join (up) thedotson thepaper, you'll get apicture. B1[IorT] Ifroadsorriversjoin, theymeetat aparticularpoint: The A11 joins the M11southof Cambridge. The River Murray and the River Darling joineastof Adelaide.
Connecting and combining
joinverb(DO TOGETHER)A2[IorT] to getinvolvedin anactivityorjourneywith anotherpersonorgroup: I don't havetimefor adrinknow, but I'll join youlater. Why don't youaskyoursisterif she would like to join usforsupper? We took theferryacrossthe Channel and then joined(= got on)theParistrainat Calais. If you'rebuyingtickets,pleasejoin thequeue(=standat the end of it). I'msureeveryone will join meinwishingyou a veryhappyretirement(= everyoneelsewill do this too). Thepolicehave joinedwith(= they havebeguntoworkwith)the Drug Enforcement Agencyintryingtocatchmajordrugtraffickers. Thedesigncompanyisplanningto joinup withashoemanufacturerandcreatea newlineoffootwear.
Creating alliances
joinverb(BECOME A MEMBER)A2[IorT] tobecomeamemberof anorganization: IfeltsounfitafterChristmasthat Idecidedto join agym. It's agreatclub. Why don't you join? join the ranks tobecomeone of aparticularlargegroupofpeople: When Ileaveschoolat the end of thismonth, I'llprobablyhave to join theranksoftheunemployed.
Organizations - joining & leaving
Idiomsbe joined in marriage/matrimony join battle join duty join hands join the club! Phrasal verbsjoin in(something) join up Examplesofjoiningjoining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The number of new walkersjoiningeach month remained stable for the first 8 months of the scheme. From theCambridge English Corpus This is not a process of a large number of competitorsjoininga system that thereby becomes entrenched. From theCambridge English Corpus Joiningwas not the same as participation, however. From theCambridge English Corpus Mixing of all orders and pairwise independent joinings of systems with singular spectrum. From theCambridge English Corpus One approach is for those ethnically-based parties most willing to compromise to join together and, byjoining, to fend off the uncompromising extremes. From theCambridge English Corpus With rampant unemployment and a surplus of labor, many workers desisted fromjoiningunions out of fear of such reprisals. From theCambridge English Corpus By we denote the cubic multigraph consisting of two vertices and three parallel edgesjoiningthem. From theCambridge English Corpus These 'costs' ofjoiningare taken as seriously as the monetary subscription cost. From theCambridge English Corpus Byjoininga domain-specific online community, people usually reveal only the part of their identity and expertise that concerns the domain in question. From theCambridge English Corpus For many, this meantjoiningthe armed gangs that politicians used to assert their authority in return for a few crumbs. From theCambridge English Corpus This resulted injoininginterruptions and overlaps, simple and complex information requests, commands and warnings, and negations and criticisms. From theCambridge English Corpus Women calypsonians arejoiningmen in the calypso tent and are competing in the same cultural space and commercial marketplace. From theCambridge English Corpus To become a participant observer means developing the knack ofjoiningin and keeping your distance at one and the same time. From theCambridge English Corpus Shouldjoiningfree trade agreements be accompanied by adopting better resource and environmental management practices? From theCambridge English Corpus However, conjunctionsjoiningclauses do not mark cases because they do not signal a relationship between a single act and one of its arguments. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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