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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K. Shipler

Meaning of "junction" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD JUNCTION

From Latin junctiō a joining, from junctus joined, from jungere to join.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF JUNCTION

junction  [ˈdʒʌŋkʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JUNCTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Junction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES JUNCTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of junction in the English dictionary

The first definition of junction in the dictionary is a place where several routes, lines, or roads meet, link, or cross each other. Other definition of junction is a point on a motorway where traffic may leave or join it. Junction is also a contact between two different metals or other materials.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JUNCTION


abjunction
æbˈdʒʌŋkʃən
adjunction
əˈdʒʌŋkʃən
cofunction
ˌkəʊˈfʌŋkʃən
compunction
kəmˈpʌŋkʃən
conjunction
kənˈdʒʌŋkʃən
disfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
disjunction
dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən
dysfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
eigenfunction
ˈaɪɡənˌfʌŋkʃən
expunction
ɪkˈspʌŋkʃən
function
ˈfʌŋkʃən
hyperfunction
ˌhaɪpəˈfʌŋkʃən
injunction
ɪnˈdʒʌŋkʃən
interpunction
ˌɪntəˈpʌŋkʃən
inunction
ɪnˈʌŋkʃən
malfunction
mælˈfʌŋkʃən
multifunction
ˈmʌltɪˌfʌŋkʃən
subjunction
sʌbˈdʒʌŋkʃən
thermojunction
ˌθɜːməʊˈdʒʌŋkʃən
unction
ˈʌŋkʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JUNCTION

junc.
juncaceous
junco
junction box
junction transistor
junctional
junctural
juncture
juncus
June
June beetle
June bug
juneating

WORDS THAT END LIKE JUNCTION

accreditation
action
attraction
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
introduction
production
protection
reaction
satisfaction
section
selection
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of junction in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «JUNCTION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «junction» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of junction

Translation of «junction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JUNCTION

Find out the translation of junction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of junction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «junction» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

汇合处
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cruce
570 millions of speakers

English

junction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जंक्शन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُلْتَقَى طُرُقٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пересечение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cruzamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

carrefour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Persimpangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kreuzung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

交差点
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교차로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prapatan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỗ giao nhau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சந்தி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जंक्शन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

birleşme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incrocio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

połączenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роздоріжжя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intersecție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διασταύρωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aansluiting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

korsning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kryss
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of junction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JUNCTION»

The term «junction» is very widely used and occupies the 9.690 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JUNCTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «junction» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «junction» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about junction

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4 QUOTES WITH «JUNCTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word junction.
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Tariq Anwar
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
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Bruce Catton
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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Glen Hansard
If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
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David K. Shipler
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JUNCTION»

Discover the use of junction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to junction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Junction Boys: How 10 Days in Hell with Bear Bryant ...
This is the story of a remarkable team – and the beginning of the legend. The Junction Boys tells the story of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's legendary training camp in the small town of Junction, Texas.
Jim Dent, 2000
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Surgery of the Craniovertebral Junction
This new edition of Surgery of the Craniovertebral Junction focuses on surgical decision making and technological advances in the treatment modalities for this region.
Nicholas C. Bambakidis, Curtis A. Dickman, 2012
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The bipolar junction transistor
The second edition has been heavily refined to improve pedagogical efectiveness, including many new problems and worked-out examples.
Gerold W. Neudeck, 1989
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Craniovertebral Junction: Diagnosis -- Pathology -- Surgical ...
Each concise chapter focuses on a single pathology to guide readers through the nuances of these intricate and demanding surgical procedures.Features Discusses in detail Professor Goel's groundbreaking treatment methods -- now accepted as ...
Atul Goel, Francesco Cacciola, 2011
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Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
Hallelujah Junction isn't so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life and times, centred around the three highly controversial operas based on social and political issues he has written in the ...
John Adams, 2011
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Bhowani Junction
Set in the late 1940’s in the wake of partition it has become one of the great novels of India, alongside E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and the work of Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie.
John Masters, 2012
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Tuxedo Junction: essays on American culture
Discusses racial issues in contemporary American society, with an emphasis on Black writing, art, and culture and featuring reappraisals of James Baldwin and other literary figures
Gerald Lyn Early, 1989
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The Fly Neuromuscular Junction: Structure and Function: ...
This book reviews outstanding work by recognized leaders in the fields of Drosophila cellular neurogenetics including developmental neurobiology, mechanisms of synaptic function, and experience dependent changes at synapses.
Vivian Budnik, Catalina Ruiz-Canada, 2006
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Taffy of Torpedo Junction
In 1942, thirteen-year-old Taffy, living with her grandfather on Hatteras Island, inadvertently helps capture Nazi spies responsible for passing information to offshore German submarines engaged in torpedoing American ships.
Nell Wise Wechter, 1996
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Up the Junction
Portrays scenes of London life in the early sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, witnessing clipjoint hustles, candid sexual encounters, casual birth, and casual death. Reprint.
Nell Dunn, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JUNCTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term junction is used in the context of the following news items.
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BREAKING: Plane crashes near Junction City - The Advocate …
BREAKING: Plane crashes near Junction City 0 comments. JUNCTION CITY - Officials are on the scene of plane crash east of Junction City. «Central Kentucky News, Jul 15»
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Tragedy as teenage motorcyclist dies after accident at Smethwick …
The 18-year-old is thought to have collided with a post in Tollhouse Way near the junction with Alma Street. Police called to the scene at ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
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REPORT: Rental Prices Sink in Grand Junction - WesternSlopeNow …
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - A new report says although the rental housing market is booming across Colorado, Grand Junction may be missing ... «WesternSlopeNow, Jul 15»
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Drivers risking injury by reversing at junction 14 on M6 | Central - ITV …
They have said people are risking injury and damage to their vehicles by reversing at junction 14 of the M6. However, the motorway is now ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
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IN PICTURES and VIDEO: M6 closure as severe lorry fire melts road …
The blaze broke out shortly after 1.30am this morning closing the motorway in both directions between Junction 13 for Stafford South and ... «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
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Cyclist found unconscious at motorway junction (From Worcester …
The 28-year-old man was found on the side of the road near the Dunstall motorway flyover bridge at the junction with the M50 at about 3pm on ... «Worcester News, Jul 15»
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Transit Hub, at Kimball Junction, given green light - The Park Record
Congested Kimball Junction will welcome another new development next year, but this one is designed to lessen, not add, to the junction's ... «The Park Record, Jul 15»
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Festival approach to revive Noosa Junction | Sunshine Coast Daily
The Junction Alley Festival on Saturday will use arts and culture to try to reinvent Noosa Junction as a precinct for knowledge-based industry. «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Jul 15»
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Union Pearson Express warning bell annoys Junction Triangle …
People in the Junction Triangle say the trains that began running from Union Station to Pearson International Airport in June go by from 5 a.m. ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Danger junction in Northampton has seen two major crashes in a …
A worried worker has added to calls for an urgent review of a “dangerous” junction in Northampton after another crash at the accident black ... «Northampton Chronicle & Echo, Jul 15»

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