Jointadjective
Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
Jointnoun
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
Jointnoun
The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
Jointnoun
(anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
Jointnoun
The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
Jointnoun
A cut of meat.
Jointnoun
The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
Jointnoun
(geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
Jointnoun
A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
Jointnoun
A place of resort for tramps.
Jointnoun
An opium den.
Jointnoun
Prison.
Jointnoun
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.
Jointnoun
A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.
Jointnoun
The penis.
Jointverb
(transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
Jointverb
(transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
Jointverb
(transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
Jointverb
(transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
Jointverb
(intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
Jointnoun
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.
Jointnoun
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.
Jointnoun
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.
Jointnoun
Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
Jointnoun
A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
Jointnoun
The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
Jointnoun
The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
Jointnoun
A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.
Jointnoun
A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.
Jointnoun
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.
Jointnoun
a marijuana cigarette.
Jointnoun
prison; - used with "the".
Jointadjective
Joined; united; combined; concerted; as, joint action.
Jointadjective
Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
Jointadjective
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.
Jointadjective
Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
Jointverb
To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
Jointverb
To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
Jointverb
To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
Jointverb
To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
Jointverb
To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
Jointnoun
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)
Jointnoun
a disreputable place of entertainment
Jointnoun
the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
Jointnoun
a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
Jointnoun
junction by which parts or objects are joined together
Jointnoun
marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
Jointverb
fit as if by joints;
Jointverb
provide with a joint;
Jointverb
fasten with a joint
Jointverb
separate (meat) at the joint
Jointadjective
united or combined;
Jointadjective
affecting or involving two or more;
Jointadjective
involving both houses of a legislature;
Joint
A joint or articulation (or articular surface) is the connection made between bones in the body which link the skeletal system into a functional whole. They are constructed to allow for different degrees and types of movement.
Conenoun
(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
Conenoun
(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
Conenoun
(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
Conenoun
Anything shaped like a cone.
Conenoun
The fruit of a conifer.
Conenoun
An ice cream cone.
Conenoun
A traffic cone
Conenoun
A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
Conenoun
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
Conenoun
(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
Conenoun
(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
Conenoun
(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
Conenoun
(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
Conenoun
(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
Conenoun
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Conenoun
A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
Coneverb
(pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
Coneverb
(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
Conenoun
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
Conenoun
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
Conenoun
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
Conenoun
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Coneverb
To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Conenoun
any cone-shaped artifact
Conenoun
a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
Conenoun
cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Conenoun
visual receptor cell sensitive to color
Coneverb
make cone-shaped;
Conenoun
a solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point
Conenoun
a surface or solid figure generated by the straight lines which pass from a circle or other closed curve to a single point (the vertex) not in the same plane as the curve.
Conenoun
a conical mountain, especially one of volcanic origin
Conenoun
a plastic cone-shaped object that is used to separate off or close sections of a road.
Conenoun
a coned-shaped wafer container in which ice cream is served.
Conenoun
a ceramic pyramid that melts at a known temperature and is used to indicate the temperature of a kiln.
Conenoun
short for cone shell
Conenoun
the dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis which separate to release the seeds
Conenoun
a flower resembling the cone of a conifer, especially that of the hop plant.
Conenoun
one of two types of light-sensitive cell in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and colour perception.
Coneverb
separate off or mark a road with traffic cones
Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex. A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base that is in a plane that does not contain the apex.