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Joint   /dʒɔɪnt/   Listen
Joint

adjective
1.
United or combined.  "Joint owners"
2.
Affecting or involving two or more.  "Joint ownership"
3.
Involving both houses of a legislature.
noun
1.
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion).  Synonyms: articulatio, articulation.
2.
A disreputable place of entertainment.
3.
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.  Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture.
4.
A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion.  Synonym: roast.
5.
Junction by which parts or objects are joined together.
6.
Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking.  Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick.
verb
(past & past part. jointed; pres. part. jointing)
1.
Fit as if by joints.
2.
Provide with a joint.  Synonym: articulate.
3.
Fasten with a joint.
4.
Separate (meat) at the joint.



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"Joint" Quotes from Famous Books



... the narrow constructions commanders had given recent Defense Department memorandums. Finally, the relaxation of the ban was applicable only to the continental United States. In response to a request for guidance from the European commander, the Joint Chiefs of Staff informed all overseas commanders that as guests of Allied nations, U.S. servicemen had no right to picket, demonstrate, or otherwise participate in any act designed to "alter the policies, ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... Patterson on my round, and found him looking rather pale and fagged out. He made the same remark about me. I was, in fact, feeling far from well, and I lay upon the sofa all the afternoon with a splitting headache and pains in every joint. As evening closed in, I could no longer disguise the fact that the scourge was upon me, and I felt that I should have medical advice without delay. It was of Patterson, naturally, that I thought, but somehow the idea of him had suddenly ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... deltoid to the humerus" (said Sir William Fergusson in a contribution to the Lancet, April 18, 1874), "there were the indications of an oblique fracture. On moving the arm there were the indications of an ununited fracture. A closer identification and dissection displayed the false joint that had so long ago been so well recognized by those who had examined the arm in former days.... The first glance set my mind at rest, and that, with the further examination, made me as positive as to the identification of these remains as that there has been among us ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

... still often written that the "open bay" was so named after a seaman by the name of Jackson on board the ship; but Sir George Jackson, who afterwards changed his name to Duckett, was at this time, with Mr. Philip Stephens, joint secretary to the Admiralty. Cook named Port Jackson and Port Stephens after these two officials, and there was no seaman named Jackson on board the Endeavour. Cook did not enter Port Jackson, and the discovery of the finest harbour in the world ...
— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery

... the noises in the house, and the continual coming and going, that preparations were being made for the funeral of the comte. He wrote to the king to ask for an extension of his leave of absence. Grimaud, as we have said, had entered D'Artagnan's apartment, had seated himself upon a joint-stool near the door, like a man who meditates profoundly; then, rising, he made a sign to D'Artagnan to follow him. The latter obeyed in silence. Grimaud descended to the comte's bed-chamber, showed the captain with his finger the place of ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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