Joy vs. Join — What's the Difference?

The word joy means a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.

Link; connect

Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.

A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together

An expression of such feeling.

To put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit

A source or an object of joy

To put or bring into close association or relationship

To take great pleasure; rejoice.

To connect (points), as with a straight line.

To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.

To meet and merge with

To enjoy.

To become a part or member of

A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

To come into the company of

Anything that causes such a feeling.

To participate with in an act or activity

Luck or success; a positive outcome.

To adjoin

(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

To engage in; enter into

(intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.

To come together so as to form a connection

To enjoy.

To act together; form an alliance

To give joy to; to congratulate.

To become a member of a group.

To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

To take part; participate

The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

A joint; a junction.

That which causes joy or happiness.

An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

An intersection of data in two or more database tables.

To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

(computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.

To give joy to; to congratulate.

(algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.

To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.

To enjoy.

(intransitive) To come together; to meet.

The emotion of great happiness

(intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.

Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;

(transitive) To come into the company of.

Feel happiness or joy

(transitive) To become a member of.

Make glad or happy

To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.

To unite in marriage.

To enjoin upon; to command.

To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.

To unite in marriage.

To enjoin upon; to command.

To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.

To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.

To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.

To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join; two rivers join.

The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.

The place or part where objects have been joined; a joint; a seam.

The combining of multiple tables to answer a query in a relational database system.

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;

Become part of; become a member of a group or organization;

Cause to become joined or linked;

Come into the company of;

Make contact or come together;

Be or become joined or united or linked;