Definition of Joint

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Definition of Joint

Joint

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.

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.

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.

Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.

A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.

The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.

Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.

Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.

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; joint debtor, etc.

Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.

To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.

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; as, the stones joint, neatly.

A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.

A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.

A place of low resort, as for smoking opium.

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Joint Quotations

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.
Marc Jacobs

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.
Bill O'Reilly

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Euripides

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Mike Epps

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
David R. Brower

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
Lester Bangs

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
Bela Lugosi

Joint Translations

joint in Dutch is lid, geleding, gelid, knoop, gewricht
joint in Finnish is yhteinen
joint in French is friture, commun, jointure, articulation
joint in Italian is guarnizione, articolazione, cuocio
joint in Swedish is skarv, led

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