joint

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

joint, n. [F. joint, fr. joindre, p. p. joint. See Join.].

•  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]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "To tear thee joint by joint."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.  [1913 Webster]
•  A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.  [1913 Webster]
•  A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  a marijuana cigarette.  [PJC]
•  prison; -- used with “the”.  [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 reënforce 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.

joint, a. [F., p. p. of joindre. See Join.].

•  Joined; united; combined; concerted; as, joint action.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Donne.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [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.

joint, v. t. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.  [1913 Webster]

  "Jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar."  [1913 Webster]
•  To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fingers are jointed together for motion."  [1913 Webster]
•  To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

  "Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting."  [1913 Webster]

joint, v. i. 

 To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

joint, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a a place at which two things are joined together. b a point at which, or a contrivance by which, two parts of an artificial structure are joined.
2 a structure in an animal body by which two bones are fitted together.
3 a any of the parts into which an animal carcass is divided for food. b any of the parts of which a body is made up.
4 sl. a place of meeting for drinking etc.
5 sl. a marijuana cigarette.
6 the part of a stem from which a leaf or branch grows.
7 a piece of flexible material forming the hinge of a book-cover.
8 Geol. a fissure in a mass of rock.
--adj.
1 held or done by, or belonging to, two or more persons etc. in conjunction (a joint mortgage; joint action).
2 sharing with another in some action, state, etc. (joint author; joint favourite).
--v.tr.
1 connect by joints.
2 divide (a body or member) at a joint or into joints.
3 fill up the joints of (masonry etc.) with mortar etc.; trim the surface of (a mortar joint).
4 prepare (a board etc.) for being joined to another by planing its edge.

Idiom

joint account a bank account held by more than one person, each of whom has the right to deposit and withdraw funds. joint and several (of a bond etc.) signed by more than one person, of whom each is liable for the whole sum. joint stock capital held jointly; a common fund. joint-stock company one formed on the basis of a joint stock. out of joint
1 (of a bone) dislocated.
2 out of order.

Derivative

jointless adj. jointly adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF, past part. of joindre JOIN

THESAURUS

joint

Babylon, DET, DMT, Gomorrah, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, Sodom, THC, 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, 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, diethyltryptamine, dike, dimethyltryptamine, disorderly house, ditch, dive, 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, 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, lumped, marijuana, 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, split, sporting house, spray, sprig, spur, stacked, staple, stew, stews, stick, stitch, suture, switch, symbiotic, symphysis, syncretistic, syncretized, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synthesized, tack, tail, tea, tenderloin, tendril, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

joint

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno, junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Accompaniment

N accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Fold

N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.

Food

N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.