joint

(not comparable)United, combined

the joint influences of culture and climate

(not comparable)Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

The play was a joint production between the two companies.

Đồng nghĩa: mutual, shared

The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.

Đồng nghĩa: hinge, pivot

The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.

(anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

Đồng nghĩa: arthrosis, articulation

The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.

The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.

A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.

Near-synonym: roast

Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.

Đồng nghĩa: roast

The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.

a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg

(geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.

(US, slang)(chiefly US slang, African-American Vernacular, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).

It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.

Đồng nghĩa: jawn, shebang

(US, slang)A marijuana cigarette.

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

Đồng nghĩa: bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun, Camberwell carrot, doink, doinker, doob, doober, doobie, exotic cheroot, fatty, giggle stick, hogger, hooter, J, jazz cigarette, jay, jimmy, joint, juju, left-handed cigarette, muggle, number, phattie, reefer, roach, spiff, spliff, toke tube, torpedo, zol, zoot

(dated, slang)A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.

(US, slang)(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) The penis.

Đồng nghĩa: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

(African-American Vernacular, originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.

a Spike Lee joint

Compare: jawn

(transitive)To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together

to joint boards

a jointing plane

(transitive)To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.

(transitive)To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

(transitive)To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

(intransitive)To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

the stones joint, neatly.

(archaic, form of, nonstandard, participle, past, uncommon)past participle of join; joined.