rejoin

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To join again; to unite after separation.

   Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.

2. 2
   verb

   To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

   Meet and rejoin me, in my penſive Grott.

3. 3
   verb

   To state in reply.

   "Be careful what you do," rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, "lest someone see you digging, and scent us out."

4. 4
   verb

   answer back

5. 5
   verb

   join again

6. 6
   verb

   To answer to a reply.

7. 7
   verb

   To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

8. 8
   verb

   To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder.

Etymology

From Middle English rejoynen, partly from Middle French rejoin- (stem of rejoindre, from re- (“again”) + joindre (“to join”)) and partly from re- + joynen. By surface analysis, re- + join. Doublet of rejoinder.