joint
adjective
1. united or combined
- joint owners
Similar word(s): collective, common, integrated, clannish, concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, conjoined, conjoint, collective, corporate, cosignatory, shared, united
2. affecting or involving two or more
- joint income-tax return
- joint ownership
Similar word(s): shared
3. involving both houses of a legislature
- a joint session of Congress
Similar word(s): multilateral
Sentences with joint as an adjective:
- The play was a joint production between the two companies.
noun
1. (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
Similar word(s): articulation
Definition categories: body
2. a disreputable place of entertainment
Definition categories: man–made, spot
3. the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
Similar word(s): articulation, join, junction, juncture
Definition categories: shape, connection, connexion, link
4. a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
Similar word(s): roast
Definition categories: food, cut
5. junction by which parts or objects are joined together
Definition categories: man–made, conjunction, junction
6. marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
Similar word(s): reefer, spliff, stick
Definition categories: man–made, butt, cigaret, cigarette
Sentences with joint as a noun:
- This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.
- The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.
- The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.
- Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.
- a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg
- It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
- I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.
- After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.
verb
1. fit as if by joints
Definition categories: stative, fit, go
2. provide with a joint
- the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood
Similar word(s): articulate
Definition categories: possession, furnish, provide, render, supply
3. fasten with a joint
Definition categories: contact, fasten, fix, secure
4. separate (meat) at the joint
Definition categories: contact, disunite, divide, part, separate
Sentences with joint as a verb:
- to joint boards, a jointing plane
- the stones joint, neatly.