come in vs join

come in

verb
  • To join or enter; to begin playing with a group. 

  • To begin transmitting. 

  • To enter. 

  • To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like. 

  • To finish a race or similar competition in first place. 

  • To become fashionable. 

  • To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well. 

  • To rise. 

  • To become relevant, applicable, or useful. 

  • To arrive. 

  • To fully develop. 

  • To become available. 

  • To give in; to yield. 

  • To surrender; to turn oneself in. 

  • To function in the indicated manner. 

join

verb
  • To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose. 

  • To unite in marriage. 

  • To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • To come into the company of. 

  • To come together; to meet. 

  • To accept, or engage in, as a contest. 

  • To become a member of. 

  • To connect or combine into one; to put together. 

noun
  • An intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • The act of joining something, such as a network. 

  • The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨. 

  • An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect. 

How often have the words come in and join occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )