Joint

the joint influences of culture and climate

The play was a joint production between the two companies.

A joint burden laid upon us all.

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.

Near-synonym: roast

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.

"...Where's the ladies' in this joint? I've to powder me nose."

For a minute I stayed away from real crowded places like Big Ben's and even the new Ruthless spot, but I hung out in a few smaller Harlem joints when I wasn't running and lifting weights and getting ready for training camp.

Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

Now you're gonna put me right back in the joint.

I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.

After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.

Captain Jack McMahon, chief of Houston's police narcotics division, holds tools of the “junkie” trade, including “joints” (syringes), needles, heroin, milk sugar (used to cut pure heroin), spoons for heating a shot of heroin (mixed with water), […]

Inez called up Camille on the phone repeatedly and had long talks with her; they even talked about his joint, or so Dean claimed.

There I was, going down at last on the star of all those pornographic films that I had been producing in my head since I first laid a hand upon my own joint . . .

"Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this.

a Spike Lee joint

Compare: jawn

to joint boards

a jointing plane

Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.

But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.

But soon that war had end, and the time's state Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Caesar

The fingers are […]jointed together for motion.

Another time alſo being minded to entertain king Priamus friendly, when he came unto his pavilion: / He then beſtir'd himſelfe, and caught up ſoone, / A good white ſheepe, whoſe throat he cut anon. / but about cutting it up, quartering, jointing, ſeething, and roſting, he ſpent a great part of the night: […]

He joints the neck.

the stones joint, neatly.

Jesus confirmed it by saying, 'What God has joint together, let not man put asunder'.

IRPs are based on the RPs of the individual component signals which are joint together.

Jemma and Shea were joint at the hip throughout their childhood, sisters, not by blood, but by choice.