joint

Plural: joints

Noun

• (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
• a disreputable place of entertainment
• the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
• a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
• junction by which parts or objects are joined together
• marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
• The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
• The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
• Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
• The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
• A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
• The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
• A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
• A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
• A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
• A place of resort for tramps.
• A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
• An opium den.
• A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
• Prison, jail, or lockup.
• A marijuana cigarette.
• A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.
• The penis.
• A thing.

Verb

Verb Forms: jointed, jointing, joints

• To connect or fit together at a junction.
• fit as if by joints
• provide with a joint
  • "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
• fasten with a joint
• separate (meat) at the joint
• To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
• To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
• To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
• To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
• To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

Adjective

• united or combined
  • "a joint session of Congress"
  • "joint owners"

Adjective Satellite

• affecting or involving two or more
  • "joint income-tax return"
  • "joint ownership"
• involving both houses of a legislature
  • "a joint session of Congress"

Adj

• Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

Examples

• a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg
• a jointing plane
• a Spike Lee joint
• After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.
• I need to JOINT these two words on the board to make a bonus play.
• I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.
• It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
• Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.
• The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.
• The play was a joint production between the two companies.
• the stones joint, neatly.
• The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.
• This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.
• to joint boards

Synonyms

articulate, articulatio, articulation, join, junction, juncture, marijuana cigarette, reefer, roast, spliff, stick, Camberwell carrot, D, Donkey Kong, J, John Thomas, Jonathan, Master John Goodfellow, Percy, Yiddish), anaconda, arthrosis, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, bifta, bifter, birdie, blunt, bobby, bogie, bomber, bone, boonga, bun, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, collective, colloquial, common, corey, corporate, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, doink, doinker, dong, donger, doob, doober, doobie, doodle, dork, down, exotic cheroot, fatty, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, giggle stick, hairy canary, hammer, hinge, hog, hogger, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jawn#Etymology_2, jay, jazz cigarette, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, joint, joystick, juju, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, left-handed cigarette, lingam, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, muggle, mutual, nature's scythe, nob, number, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, peter, phallus, phattie, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pivot, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, ramrod, rape tool, roach, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shared, shebang#English:_place_or_building, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spiff, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, toke tube, tool, torpedo, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, united, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang, zol, zoot

Antonyms

separate, insular, sole

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