JOIN

(CONNECT) [verb] [T] - to connect or fasten (things) togetherA long suspension bridge joins the two islands.I joined my car battery to a friend's with jump leads.Russia is joined to Eastern Europe by all sorts of economic ties.If you join up the dots on the paper, you'll get a picture. [M]Join the two pieces together using strong glue.The curtains were slightly too short, so I had to join an extra strip of material on/onto the bottom.(formal) During a marriage ceremony, it is customary for the priest to ask if there is any reason why the bride and groom should not be joined (together) in marriage/matrimony (= married).If two or more people join hands, they hold each other's hands, esp. in order to do something."Everyone join hands, and then form a circle," said the teacher.(esp. UK) If writing is joined-up, each letter in a word is connected to the next one.My daughter is just starting to learn how to do joined-up writing at school.Joined-up thinking is thinking about a complicated problem in an intelligent and original way, and considering everything that is connected with it.This complex issue needs some joined-up thinking from ministers.