(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If one person or vehicle ~s another, they move or go to the same place, for example so that both of them can do something together.
His wife and children moved to ~ him in their new home...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ an organization, you become a member of it or start work as an employee of it.
He ~ed the Army five years ago...
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ an activity that other people are doing, you take part in it or become involved with it.
Telephone operators ~ed the strike and four million engineering workers are also planning action...
The pastor requested the women present to ~ him in prayer...
Private contractors ~ed in condemning the Government’s stance.
VERB: V n, V n in n/-ing, V in -ing
4.
If you ~ a queue, you stand at the end of it so that you are part of it.
Make sure you ~ the queue inside the bank.
VERB: V n
5.
To ~ two things means to fix or fasten them together.
The opened link is used to ~ the two ends of the chain.
...the conjunctiva, the skin which ~s the eye to the lid.
VERB: V pl-n, V n prep/adv
6.
If something such as a line or path ~s two things, it connects them.
It has a dormer roof ~ing both gable ends...
...a global highway of cables ~ing all the continents together.
VERB: V pl-n, V-ing
7.
If two roads or rivers ~, they meet or come together at a particular point.
Do you know the highway to Tulsa? The airport road ~s it.
...Allahabad, where the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers ~.
V-RECIP: V n, pl-n V
8.
A ~ is a place where two things are fastened or fixed together.
N-COUNT
9.
~ forces: see force
to ~ the ranks: see rank