'Joint' definitions:
Definition of 'joint'
From: WordNet
adjective
United or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners" [ant: separate]
adjective
Affecting or involving two or more; "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership"
adjective
Involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress"
noun
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) [syn: joint, articulation, articulatio]
noun
A disreputable place of entertainment
noun
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made [syn: articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction]
noun
A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion [syn: roast, joint]
noun
Junction by which parts or objects are joined together
noun
Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking [syn: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff]
verb
Fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly"
verb
Provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate]
verb
Fasten with a joint
verb
Separate (meat) at the joint
Definition of 'Joint'
From: GCIDE
- Joint \Joint\ (joint), n. [F. joint, fr. joindre, p. p. joint. See Join.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction; as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation. [1913 Webster]
- A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To tear thee joint by joint. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Geol.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Arch.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint. [1913 Webster]
- 7. The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. [1913 Webster]
- 8. [Jag a notch.] A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall. [Now Chiefly U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 9. (Theaters) A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 10. a disreputable establishment, or a place of low resort, as for smoking opium; -- also used for a commercial establishment, implying a less than impeccable reputation, but often in jest; as, talking about a high-class joint is an oxymoron. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 11. a marijuana cigarette. [Slang] [PJC]
- 12. prison; -- used with "the". [Slang] " he spent five years in the joint." [PJC]
- Coursing joint (Masonry), the mortar joint between two courses of bricks or stones.
- Fish joint, Miter joint, Universal joint, etc. See under Fish, Miter, etc.
- Joint bolt, a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood, one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of the pieces.
- Joint chair (Railroad), the chair that supports the ends of abutting rails.
- Joint coupling, a universal joint for coupling shafting. See under Universal.
- Joint hinge, a hinge having long leaves; a strap hinge.
- Joint splice, a re["e]nforce at a joint, to sustain the parts in their true relation.
- Joint stool. (a) A stool consisting of jointed parts; a folding stool. --Shak. (b) A block for supporting the end of a piece at a joint; a joint chair.
- Out of joint, out of place; dislocated, as when the head of a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well together; disordered. "The time is out of joint." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Joint'
From: GCIDE
- Joint \Joint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jointing.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. [1913 Webster]
- Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. [1913 Webster]
- Jointing their force 'gainst Caesar. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. [1913 Webster]
- The fingers are jointed together for motion. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. "He joints the neck." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Joint'
From: GCIDE
- Joint \Joint\ (joint), a. [F., p. p. of joindre. See Join.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Joined; united; combined; concerted; as, joint action. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. [1913 Webster]
- I read this joint effusion twice over. --T. Hook. [1913 Webster]
- 3. United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; a joint bank account; joint debtor, etc. "Joint tenants of the world." --Donne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. [1913 Webster]
- A joint burden laid upon us all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Joint committee (Parliamentary Practice), a committee composed of members of the two houses of a legislative body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions of the two houses are necessary. --Cushing.
- Joint meeting, or Joint session, the meeting or session of two distinct bodies as one; as, a joint meeting of committees representing different corporations; a joint session of both branches of a State legislature to chose a United States senator. "Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared." --Joint Rules of Congress, U. S.
- Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. "By the constitution of the United States and the rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made between bills and joint resolutions." --Barclay (Digest).
- Joint rule (Parliamentary Practice), a rule of proceeding adopted by the concurrent action of both branches of a legislative assembly. "Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the remainder of the session." --Journal H. of R., U. S.
- Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together or either of them individually; used especially in the phrase joint and several liability.
- Joint stock, stock held in company.
- Joint-stock company (Law), a species of partnership, consisting generally of a large number of members, having a capital divided, or agreed to be divided, into shares, the shares owned by any member being usually transferable without the consent of the rest.
- Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole. --Blackstone.
- Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint tenancy. Contrassted with tenant in common. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Joint'
From: GCIDE
- Joint \Joint\, v. i. To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'joint'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abutment,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- accessory,
- accompanying,
- accordant,
- accumulated,
- acid,
- agglomerate,
- aggregate,
- agreeing,
- amalgamated,
- amassed,
- ankle,
- antidepressant,
- appendage,
- arm,
- arroyo,
- articulate,
- articulation,
- aspic,
- assembled,
- assimilated,
- associate,
- associated,
- at one with,
- ataractic,
- attendant,
- attending,
- Babylon,
- bagnio,
- barbecue,
- batten,
- batten down,
- bawdyhouse,
- betting house,
- betting parlor,
- blended,
- boiled meat,
- bolt,
- bordello,
- bough,
- bouilli,
- boundary,
- box canyon,
- branch,
- breach,
- break,
- brothel,
- buckle,
- bunched,
- bundled,
- butt,
- button,
- canyon,
- casino,
- cathouse,
- cavity,
- cervix,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- civet,
- clasp,
- cleat,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clinch,
- clip,
- clip joint,
- closure,
- clough,
- clumped,
- clustered,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadjutant,
- coadjuvant,
- coadunate,
- coefficient,
- coincident,
- col,
- collaborative,
- collateral,
- collected,
- collective,
- collectivist,
- collectivistic,
- collusive,
- combinative,
- combinatory,
- combined,
- combining,
- commensal,
- common,
- communal,
- communalist,
- communalistic,
- communist,
- communistic,
- communitarian,
- commutual,
- compact,
- comprehensive,
- concerted,
- concomitant,
- concordant,
- concourse,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- confluence,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- congregated,
- conjoint,
- conjugate,
- conjunct,
- conjunctive,
- connecting link,
- connecting rod,
- connection,
- connective,
- conniving,
- consilient,
- consolidated,
- conspiratorial,
- cooperant,
- cooperating,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- corporate,
- correlative,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- coupled,
- coupling,
- coworking,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crib,
- crux,
- cumulate,
- cut,
- cwm,
- defile,
- dell,
- den,
- den of iniquity,
- den of thieves,
- den of vice,
- DET,
- diethyltryptamine,
- dike,
- dimethyltryptamine,
- disorderly house,
- ditch,
- dive,
- DMT,
- donga,
- dovetail,
- draw,
- dump,
- eclectic,
- ecumenic,
- elbow,
- embrace,
- excavation,
- fascicled,
- fasciculated,
- fault,
- fellow,
- fissure,
- flat,
- flaw,
- flesh,
- fleshpots,
- flume,
- forcemeat,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- fused,
- gage,
- gambling den,
- gambling hall,
- gambling hell,
- gambling house,
- game,
- gaming house,
- ganja,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gathered,
- general,
- gliding joint,
- glomerate,
- Gomorrah,
- gorge,
- grass,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gyp joint,
- hachis,
- hallucinogen,
- hand,
- hangout,
- harmonious,
- harmonized,
- hash,
- hashish,
- hasp,
- hay,
- heaped,
- hell,
- hellhole,
- hemp,
- hinge,
- hinged joint,
- hip,
- hitch,
- hole,
- honky-tonk,
- hook,
- house of assignation,
- house of joy,
- house of prostitution,
- imp,
- in common,
- in session,
- incision,
- inclusive,
- incorporated,
- integrated,
- interconnection,
- interface,
- intersection,
- jam,
- jerky,
- join,
- joined,
- joining,
- jugged hare,
- junction,
- juncture,
- kava,
- kloof,
- knee,
- knotted,
- knuckle,
- lair,
- latch,
- leagued,
- leak,
- leg,
- limb,
- link,
- lobe,
- lobule,
- lock,
- LSD,
- lumped,
- marijuana,
- Mary Jane,
- massed,
- meat,
- meeting,
- member,
- menue viande,
- merged,
- mescal,
- mescal bean,
- mescal button,
- mescaline,
- mince,
- mind-altering drug,
- mind-blowing drug,
- mind-expanding drug,
- miter,
- mixed,
- moat,
- morning glory seeds,
- mortise,
- mutual,
- nail,
- neck,
- noncompetitive,
- notch,
- nullah,
- offshoot,
- one,
- opening,
- organ,
- packaged,
- paired,
- panel den,
- panel house,
- parallel,
- parasitic,
- pass,
- passage,
- peg,
- pemmican,
- peyote,
- piled,
- pin,
- pinion,
- pivot,
- pivot joint,
- poolroom,
- popular,
- pot,
- pot roast,
- psilocin,
- psilocybin,
- psychedelic,
- psychic energizer,
- psychoactive drug,
- psychochemical,
- psychotomimetic,
- public,
- rabbet,
- ramification,
- ravine,
- reciprocal,
- red-light district,
- reefer,
- rent,
- respective,
- rift,
- rime,
- rivet,
- roach,
- roast,
- runner,
- rupture,
- saprophytic,
- sausage meat,
- scarf,
- scion,
- scissure,
- scrapple,
- screw,
- seam,
- sew,
- shared,
- shoulder,
- simultaneous,
- sink,
- sink of corruption,
- sink of iniquity,
- skewer,
- slit,
- slot,
- snap,
- social,
- socialistic,
- societal,
- Sodom,
- split,
- sporting house,
- spray,
- sprig,
- spur,
- stacked,
- staple,
- stew,
- stews,
- stick,
- stitch,
- STP,
- suture,
- switch,
- symbiotic,
- symphysis,
- syncretistic,
- syncretized,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- synthesized,
- tack,
- tail,
- tea,
- tenderloin,
- tendril,
- THC,
- tie,
- tie rod,
- toggle,
- toggle joint,
- tranquilizer,
- trench,
- twig,
- twin,
- two-way,
- uncompetitive,
- union,
- united,
- uniting,
- valley,
- venison,
- viande,
- void,
- wadi,
- wedge,
- weed,
- weld,
- whorehouse,
- wing,
- wrapped up,
- wrist,
- zipper
Words containing 'Joint'
- Jointed,
- Jointedly,
- Jointing,
- Jointly,
- Out of joint,
- Bayonet joint,
- Butt joint,
- Butting joint,
- Coffin joint,
- Coursing joint,
- Dowel joint,
- Edge joint,
- Expansion joint,
- Face joint,
- Fish joint,
- Flange joint,
- Gimbal joint,
- Gimmal joint,
- Ground joint,
- Heading joint,
- Hinge joint,
- Hip joint,
- Hooke's joint,
- Joggle joint,
- Joint and several,
- Joint bolt,
- Joint chair,
- Joint committee,
- Joint coupling,
- Joint hinge,
- Joint meeting,
- Joint resolution,
- Joint rule,
- Joint session,
- Joint splice,
- Joint stock,
- Joint stool,
- Joint tenancy,
- Joint tenant,
- Jointed charlock,
- Jointing machine,
- Jointing plane,
- Jointing rule,
- Jump joint,
- Knee joint,
- Knuckle joint,
- Lap joint,
- Master joint,
- Miter joint,
- Mortise joint,
- Pastern joint,
- Plumb joint,
- Rabbet joint,
- Rail joint,
- Rivet joint,
- Riveted joint,
- Rule joint,
- Rust joint,
- Saddle joint,
- Scarf joint,
- Shackle joint,
- Swivel joint,
- To break joints,
- To flush a joints,
- To wipe a joint,
- Toggle joint,
- Union joint,
- Universal joint,
- Water joint,
- Welt joint,
- a McIntire joint,
- ankle joint,
- artificial joint,
- clip joint,
- cotyloid joint,
- cubital joint,
- dovetail joint,
- elbow joint,
- enarthrodial joint,
- fetlock joint,
- fibrous joint,
- flexible joint,
- ginglymoid joint,
- gliding joint,
- gyp joint,
- interphalangeal joint,
- joint author,
- joint chiefs,
- joint control,
- joint effort,
- joint fir,
- joint operation,
- joint ownership,
- joint probability,
- joint return,
- joint snake,
- joint venture,
- jointed rush,
- jook joint,
- juke joint,
- mandibular joint,
- metacarpophalangeal joint,
- mitre joint,
- pivot joint,
- radiocarpal joint,
- rotary joint,
- rotatory joint,
- second joint,
- shoulder joint,
- spheroid joint,
- stifle joint,
- synovial joint,
- temporomandibular joint,
- wrist joint,
- Ball and socket joint,
- Joint-fir,
- Lap-jointed,
- Sensitive joint vetch,
- Short-jointed,
- Spigot and faucet joint,
- Straight-joint,
- degenerative joint disease,
- double-jointed,
- hock-joint,
- joint chiefs of staff,
- loose-jointed,
- rib joint pliers,
- tongue and groove joint,
- Joint-stock company,
- To put one's nose out of joint,
- ball-and-socket joint,
- joint direct attack munition,
- mortise-and-tenon joint,
- slip-joint pliers