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join
Verb
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If someone joins two or more things, they bring them together.
Their lives were joined.
They joined hands.
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If someone joins someone else, they do something together.
I will join you on your walk.
Hey, James! Come and join in. We're having fun.
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If someone joins a club, school, etc. they become a member.
Would you like to join our club?
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If someone joins two or more things, they make a connection between them.
The new building is joined to the school by a short hallway.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
queue
Verb
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If you queue, then you wait in or join a line.
A line of people queued by the box office.
There was an argument here about someone cutting the queue just now.