incorporate vs join

incorporate

verb
  • To admit as a member of a company 

  • To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend 

  • To form into a legal company. 

  • To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments). 

  • To include (something) as a part. 

  • To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. 

  • To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. 

adj
  • Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. 

  • Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation. 

join

verb
  • To come into the company of. 

  • To unite in marriage. 

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

  • 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. 

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

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 incorporate and join occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )