When fixing something to the ceiling, you should screw it into a joist for strength.
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Joist
//d͡ʒɔɪst//
Synonyms for "joist" (2 found)
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36 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- напречник noun (piece of timber)
Czech
3 entries- nosník noun (piece of timber)
- trám noun (piece of timber)
- trámek noun (piece of timber)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- авагашта noun (piece of timber)
Finnish
2 entries- vasa noun (piece of timber)
- vasoittaa verb (to furnish with joists)
French
1 entries- solive noun (piece of timber)
Galician
2 entries- cango noun (piece of timber)
- pontón noun (piece of timber)
Georgian
4 entries- დირე noun (piece of timber)
- კადონი noun (piece of timber)
- კოჭი noun (piece of timber)
- ნივნივი noun (piece of timber)
German
4 entries- Balken noun (piece of timber)
- Dachbalken noun (piece of timber)
- Deckenbalken noun (piece of timber)
- Holzbalken noun (piece of timber)
Hungarian
2 entries- gerenda noun (piece of timber)
- ászokfa noun (piece of timber)
Irish
1 entries- giarsa noun (piece of timber)
Latin
1 entries- gistura noun (piece of timber)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- bałka noun (piece of timber)
- drjewno noun (piece of timber)
Malay
2 entries- gelegar noun (piece of timber)
- jeliau noun (piece of timber)
Māori
2 entries- kurupae noun (piece of timber)
- tauwhenua noun (piece of timber)
Norman
1 entries- rouai noun (piece of timber)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قوغوش noun (piece of timber)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
A joist pull up is an especially difficult, grip-intensive variant of that exercise where you grip two parallel exposed joists from below, palms up, and pull yourself up.
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[…] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boards and the Joists they lay on, and burnt as far as just to the Body, but had not taken hold of the dead Body […]
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There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
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