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▪ I. joining, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ|
[f. join v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb join, or the fact of being joined.
a. Connexion, combination, union.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xix. (Bodl. MS) 172 b/1 Glew..is good to Ioynynge of schippis. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 30 §1 Ioynyng of issues, and other pleadynges. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 178 Syntaxis is a part of Grammar, that teacheth the true joyning of words together. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 9/2 The joyning of those two Arches, intersecting each other, makes an Angle. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn) II. 77 Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect.
b. The action of coming together in conflict; engagement, encounter. Also joining of battle.
c1400Rowland & O. 454 Thies kene knyghtis to-gedir gan glide,..theyre Ioynynge was so harde that tyde. 1549Compl. Scot. To Rdr. 14 Befor the iunyng of ane battel. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 352 That his souldiers should in the first ioyning with the enemie sing certaine Hymnes. 1618Bolton Florus ii. vi. (1636) 96 An huge earthquake at the joyning of the battels..had forewarned our rash General of the event.
c. The occupation or work of a joiner; joinery.
1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. xi. §3 (1683) I. 193 The Office of Smoothing Plains in Joyning and Carpentry.
2. quasi-concr.
a. An instance of such action or state; the place where two things or parts of something join or are joined; a junction, joint.
1382Wyclif Col. ii. 19 Al the body by bondis and ioynyngis to gidere vndirmynistrid and maad. 1483Cath. Angl. 199/2 A Iunynge, compages, compago, iunctura. 1530Palsgr. 235/1 Ioyning of bordes, joincture. 1611Bible 1 Chron. xxii. 3 Dauid prepared yron..for the nailes for the doores of the gates, and for the ioynings. 1764Reid Inquiry vi. §22 (1801) 395 In the steeple..the joinings of the stones are clearly perceptible. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 149 These joinings are unavoidable: these divisions..are among the tests of fresco painting properly so called.
b. Something that joins or connects two things; a piece forming a junction.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 97 Eke the halle and euery boure, Wythouten peces or ioynynges. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 424 Each group connected with those next it by slight joinings of wax.
3. attrib. or Comb., as joining-place (in quot. = place for joining battle); † joining-work = joiner's work; see joiner 2 b.
1513Douglas æneis x. viii. 47 Formast he bownys to the ioynyng place. 1562Richmond Wills & Inv. (Surtees 1853) 162 One counter of joynyng work.
▪ II. joining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That joins; connecting, uniting, etc.
1483Cath. Angl. 199/2 Iunynge, coniungens. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 60 Our hopes joyning blisse. 1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. 13 Produce the joining line to cut OI in I′.
2. Adjoining, adjacent, contiguous: see join v. 8. Now rare or Obs.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1962 (Ariadne) The tour..Was Ioynynge in the wal to a foreyne. 1530–77H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. 67 Other that syt ioyning by them. 1616Marlowe's Faust. 1228, I have a castle joining near these woods. 1747Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 473 A pretty field..joining to my garden. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 10 The Tuileries joining to the Louvre. |