| associate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ compeer, equal, peer, match | a person who is of equal standing with another in a group. |
| ~ adjunct | a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another. |
| ~ affiliate | a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization. |
| ~ ally, friend | an associate who provides cooperation or assistance.; "he's a good ally in fight" |
| ~ bedfellow | a temporary associate.; "politics makes strange bedfellows" |
| ~ cooperator, pardner, partner, collaborator | an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest.; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners" |
| ~ confrere, colleague, fellow | a person who is member of one's class or profession.; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers" |
| ~ co-worker, colleague, fellow worker, workfellow | an associate that one works with. |
| ~ fellow member, member | one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization).; "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family" |
| ~ participant | someone who takes part in an activity. |
| ~ shipmate | an associate on the same ship with you. |
| ~ teammate, mate | a fellow member of a team.; "it was his first start against his former teammates" |
| n. (person) | 2. associate, companion, comrade, familiar, fellow | a friend who is frequently in the company of another.; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" |
| ~ date, escort | a participant in a date.; "his date never stopped talking" |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| ~ playfellow, playmate | a companion at play. |
| ~ tovarich, tovarisch | a comrade (especially in Russian communism). |
| n. (person) | 3. associate | a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners" |
| ~ subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
| n. (event) | 4. associate | any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another.; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate" |
| ~ accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant, attendant | an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another. |
| n. (communication) | 5. associate, associate degree | a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies. |
| ~ academic degree, degree | an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study.; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" |
| ~ associate in arts, aa | an associate degree in arts. |
| ~ aas, associate in applied science | an associate degree in applied science. |
| ~ an, associate in nursing | an associate degree in nursing. |
| v. (cognition) | 6. associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ remember | exercise, or have the power of, memory.; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ correlate | bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation.; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information" |
| ~ identify | conceive of as united or associated.; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" |
| ~ free-associate | associate freely.; "Let's associate freely to bring up old memories" |
| ~ have in mind, think of, mean | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| v. (social) | 7. affiliate, associate, assort, consort | keep company with; hang out with.; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ ally | become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage.; "He allied himself with the Communists" |
| ~ go steady, date, go out, see | date regularly; have a steady relationship with.; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" |
| ~ companion, company, keep company, accompany | be a companion to somebody. |
| v. (social) | 8. associate, consociate | bring or come into association or action.; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| ~ walk | be or act in association with.; "We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God" |
| adj. | 9. associate | having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status.; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" |
| ~ subordinate, low-level | lower in rank or importance. |
| buddy | | |
| n. (person) | 1. brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick | a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. |
| ~ cobber | Australian term for a pal. |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| chaperon | | |
| n. (person) | 1. chaperon, chaperone | one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people. |
| ~ defender, guardian, protector, shielder | a person who cares for persons or property. |
| ~ den mother | a woman who supervises a den of Cub Scouts. |
| ~ duenna | a woman chaperon. |
| ~ housemother | a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people. |
| v. (motion) | 2. chaperon, chaperone | accompany as a chaperone. |
| ~ protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage.; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" |
| ~ escort | accompany as an escort.; "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball" |
| colleague | | |
| n. (person) | 1. co-worker, colleague, fellow worker, workfellow | an associate that one works with. |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| n. (person) | 2. colleague, confrere, fellow | a person who is member of one's class or profession.; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers" |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| companion | | |
| n. (person) | 1. companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller | a traveler who accompanies you. |
| ~ traveler, traveller | a person who changes location. |
| n. (person) | 2. companion | one paid to accompany or assist or live with another. |
| ~ attendant, attender, tender | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. |
| v. (stative) | 3. accompany, companion, company, keep company | be a companion to somebody. |
| ~ affiliate, assort, consort, associate | keep company with; hang out with.; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" |
| comrade | | |
| n. (person) | 1. comrade | a fellow member of the Communist Party. |
| ~ commie, communist | a socialist who advocates communism. |
| n. (person) | 2. brother, comrade | used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement.; "Greetings, comrade!" |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| escort | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bodyguard, escort | someone who escorts and protects a prominent person. |
| ~ guard | a military unit serving to protect some place or person. |
| ~ defender, guardian, protector, shielder | a person who cares for persons or property. |
| ~ outrider | an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard). |
| ~ praetorian, praetorian guard | a member of the Praetorian Guard. |
| ~ beefeater, yeoman, yeoman of the guard | officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch. |
| n. (act) | 2. accompaniment, escort | the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them. |
| ~ protection | the activity of protecting someone or something.; "the witnesses demanded police protection" |
| ~ convoy | the act of escorting while in transit. |
| n. (person) | 3. escort | an attendant who is employed to accompany someone. |
| ~ attendant, attender, tender | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. |
| ~ color guard | a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors. |
| ~ guard of honor, honor guard | an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral. |
| ~ minder | someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors.; "I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us" |
| ~ guide, usher | someone employed to conduct others. |
| n. (person) | 4. date, escort | a participant in a date.; "his date never stopped talking" |
| ~ appointment, engagement, date | a meeting arranged in advance.; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" |
| ~ blind date | a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them). |
| ~ companion, comrade, associate, familiar, fellow | a friend who is frequently in the company of another.; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" |
| v. (motion) | 5. escort | accompany as an escort.; "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball" |
| ~ accompany | go or travel along with.; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" |
| ~ squire | attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire. |
| ~ safeguard | escort safely. |
| ~ convoy | escort in transit.; "the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone"; "the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific" |
| ~ chaperon, chaperone | accompany as a chaperone. |
| v. (motion) | 6. escort, see | accompany or escort.; "I'll see you to the door" |
| ~ accompany | go or travel along with.; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" |
| fellow | | |
| n. (person) | 1. blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad | a boy or man.; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
| ~ dog | informal term for a man.; "you lucky dog" |
| n. (quantity) | 2. fellow, mate | one of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" |
| ~ singleton | a single object (as distinguished from a pair). |
| ~ couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple | two items of the same kind. |
| n. (person) | 3. fellow | a member of a learned society.; "he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association" |
| ~ fellow member, member | one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization).; "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family" |
| n. (person) | 4. buster, dude, fellow | an informal form of address for a man.; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| n. (person) | 5. beau, boyfriend, fellow, swain, young man | a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" |
| ~ lover | a person who loves someone or is loved by someone. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| mate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. first mate, mate | the officer below the master on a commercial ship. |
| ~ ship's officer, officer | a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel.; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" |
| n. (person) | 2. mate, teammate | a fellow member of a team.; "it was his first start against his former teammates" |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| n. (person) | 3. mate | the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner).; "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| n. (person) | 4. better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse | a person's partner in marriage. |
| ~ man and wife, married couple, marriage | two people who are married to each other.; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" |
| ~ bigamist | someone who marries one person while already legally married to another. |
| ~ consort | the husband or wife of a reigning monarch. |
| ~ domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship. |
| ~ helpmate, helpmeet | a helpful partner. |
| ~ hubby, husband, married man | a married man; a woman's partner in marriage. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ monogamist, monogynist | someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time). |
| ~ honeymooner, newlywed | someone recently married. |
| ~ polygamist | someone who is married to two or more people at the same time. |
| ~ married woman, wife | a married woman; a man's partner in marriage. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. match, mate | an exact duplicate.; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook" |
| ~ duplication, duplicate | a copy that corresponds to an original exactly.; "he made a duplicate for the files" |
| n. (plant) | 6. ilex paraguariensis, mate, paraguay tea | South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea. |
| ~ holly | any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges. |
| n. (person) | 7. mate | informal term for a friend of the same sex. |
| ~ australia, commonwealth of australia | a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony. |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| n. (food) | 8. mate | South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate. |
| ~ beverage, drinkable, potable, drink | any liquid suitable for drinking.; "may I take your beverage order?" |
| n. (act) | 9. checkmate, mate | a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. |
| ~ chess move | the act of moving a chess piece. |
| v. (contact) | 10. copulate, couple, mate, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ nick | mate successfully; of livestock. |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, bed, love, bang, make out, know | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ tread | mate with.; "male birds tread the females" |
| ~ service, serve | mate with.; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes" |
| ~ deflower, ruin | deprive of virginity.; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" |
| ~ mount, ride | copulate with.; "The bull was riding the cow" |
| ~ breed, cover | copulate with a female, used especially of horses.; "The horse covers the mare" |
| ~ bugger, sodomise, sodomize | practice anal sex upon. |
| ~ sodomise, sodomize | copulate with an animal. |
| v. (contact) | 11. couple, match, mate, pair, twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together.; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mismate | provide with an unsuitable mate. |
| ~ mismatch | match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together. |
| ~ bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| v. (competition) | 12. checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| partner | | |
| n. (person) | 1. collaborator, cooperator, pardner, partner | an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest.; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners" |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| ~ bridge partner | one of a pair of bridge players who are on the same side of the game. |
| ~ dancing partner | one of a pair of people who dance together. |
| n. (person) | 2. partner | a person who is a member of a partnership. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ partnership | the members of a business venture created by contract. |
| ~ copartner | a joint partner (as in a business enterprise). |
| ~ silent partner, sleeping partner | a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge. |
| v. (possession) | 3. partner | provide with a partner. |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (social) | 4. partner | act as a partner.; "Astaire partnered Rogers" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| other | | |
| adj. | 1. other | not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.; "today isn't any other day"; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" |
| ~ different | distinctly separate from the first.; "that's another (or different) issue altogether" |
| ~ another, some other | any of various alternatives; some other.; "put it off to another (or some other) day" |
| ~ different | distinct or separate.; "each interviewed different members of the community" |
| ~ new | other than the former one(s); different.; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" |
| ~ opposite | the other one of a complementary pair.; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors" |
| ~ opposite | being directly across from each other; facing.; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles" |
| ~ opposite | moving or facing away from each other.; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions" |
| ~ otherwise | other than as supposed or expected.; "the outcome was otherwise" |
| ~ separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| adj. | 2. other | recently past.; "the other evening" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| adj. | 3. early, former, other | belonging to the distant past.; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| adj. | 4. other | very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected.; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail" |
| ~ strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| along | | |
| adv. | 1. along, on | with a forward motion.; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" |
| adv. | 2. along | in accompaniment or as a companion.; "his little sister came along to the movies"; "I brought my camera along"; "working along with his father" |
| adv. | 3. along | to a more advanced state.; "the work is moving along"; "well along in their research"; "hurrying their education along"; "getting along in years" |
| adv. | 4. along | in addition (usually followed by `with').; "we sent them food and some clothing went along in the package"; "along with the package came a bill"; "consider the advantages along with the disadvantages" |
| adv. | 5. along | in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside').; "pass the word along"; "ran along beside me"; "cottages along by the river" |
| companion | | |
| mate | | |
| accompany | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. accompany, attach to, come with, go with | be present or associated with an event or entity.; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" |
| ~ co-occur with, collocate with, construe with, cooccur with, go with | go or occur together.; "The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'" |
| ~ attend | to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result.; "Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation" |
| ~ rule | have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac. |
| v. (motion) | 2. accompany | go or travel along with.; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ walk | accompany or escort.; "I'll walk you to your car" |
| ~ consort, run | keep company.; "the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring" |
| ~ escort | accompany as an escort.; "She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball" |
| ~ escort, see | accompany or escort.; "I'll see you to the door" |
| ~ tag along | go along with, often uninvited.; "my younger brother often tagged along when I went out with my friends" |
| v. (creation) | 3. accompany, follow, play along | perform an accompaniment to.; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ play | play on an instrument.; "The band played all night long" |
| join | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. articulation, join, joint, junction, juncture | the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made. |
| ~ esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction | the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium. |
| ~ connexion, link, connection | a connecting shape. |
| n. (group) | 2. join, sum, union | a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| ~ direct sum | a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets. |
| v. (social) | 3. fall in, get together, join | become part of; become a member of a group or organization.; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man" |
| ~ sign up | join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate,.; "Sign up for yoga classes" |
| ~ band oneself, league together | attach oneself to a group. |
| ~ unionise, unionize, organise, organize | form or join a union.; "The auto workers decided to unionize" |
| ~ affiliate | join in an affiliation.; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They affiliated with a national group" |
| ~ rejoin | join again. |
| ~ infiltrate, penetrate | enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members.; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (contact) | 4. bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| ~ ancylose, ankylose | produce ankylosis by surgery. |
| ~ connect | join for the purpose of communication.; "Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?" |
| ~ connect | join by means of communication equipment.; "The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area" |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ miter | fit together in a miter joint. |
| ~ ply | join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding.; "ply fabric" |
| ~ close up, close | unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of.; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella" |
| ~ anastomose, inosculate | cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis.; "anastomose blood vessels" |
| ~ couple, mate, pair, twin, match | bring two objects, ideas, or people together.; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mortice, mortise | join by a tenon and mortise. |
| ~ cog | join pieces of wood with cogs. |
| ~ fair | join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly. |
| ~ scarf | unite by a scarf joint. |
| ~ rebate | join with a rebate.; "rebate the pieces of timber and stone" |
| ~ rabbet | join with a rabbet joint. |
| ~ seam | put together with a seam.; "seam a dress" |
| ~ bridge | make a bridge across.; "bridge a river" |
| ~ connect, link, link up, tie | connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" |
| ~ close | bring together all the elements or parts of.; "Management closed ranks" |
| ~ ligate | join letters in a ligature when writing. |
| ~ assemble, put together, tack together, piece, set up, tack | create by putting components or members together.; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" |
| ~ sovietise, sovietize | bring under Soviet control, of a country. |
| v. (social) | 5. join | come into the company of.; "She joined him for a drink" |
| v. (contact) | 6. conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ feather | join tongue and groove, in carpentry. |
| ~ attach | become attached.; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill" |
| ~ cross-link | join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein). |
| ~ anastomose, inosculate | come together or open into each other.; "the blood vessels anastomose" |
| ~ connect, link, link up, tie | connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" |
| ~ copulate, mate, couple, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ yoke | become joined or linked together. |
| ~ engraft, graft, ingraft | cause to grow together parts from different plants.; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" |
| ~ splice | join together so as to form new genetic combinations.; "splice genes" |
| ~ splice | join the ends of.; "splice film" |
| ~ patch, piece | to join or unite the pieces of.; "patch the skirt" |
| ~ solder | join or fuse with solder.; "solder these two pipes together" |
| ~ weld | join together by heating.; "weld metal" |
| ~ quilt | stitch or sew together.; "quilt the skirt" |
| ~ entwine, knit | tie or link together. |
| v. (stative) | 7. connect, join, link, link up, unite | be or become joined or united or linked.; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" |
| ~ syndicate | join together into a syndicate.; "The banks syndicated" |
| ~ articulate | unite by forming a joint or joints.; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" |
| ~ complect, interconnect, interlink | be interwoven or interconnected.; "The bones are interconnected via the muscle" |
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