hook(v = verb.creation) crochet - make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"

is one way to intertwine, loop

Derived form noun hook₅

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

hook(v = verb.contact) - hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left;

is one way to

hit

Derived forms noun hook₆, noun hooker₄, noun hooking₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

hook(v = verb.possession) cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve - take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"

is one way to steal

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

hook(v = verb.possession) abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe - make off with belongings of others;

is one way to steal

Sample sentence:
They hook the goods

hook(v = verb.contact) - hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"

is one way to

hit

Derived form noun hook₇

Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to hook his opponent

hook(v = verb.contact) - catch with a hook; "hook a fish"

Derived form noun hook₅

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

hook(v = verb.consumption) addict - to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug);

is one way to accustom, habituate

Derived form noun hook₃

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP

hook(v = verb.competition) - secure with the foot; "hook the ball"

is one way to

play

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

hook(v = verb.communication) snare - entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

is one way to entice, lure, tempt

Derived form noun hook₃

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

hook(v = verb.communication) accost, solicit - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

is one way to offer

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

hook, n. [OE. hok, AS. hōc; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. hāko, hāgo, hāggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.].

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc. [1913 Webster]
That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns. [1913 Webster]
An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook. [1913 Webster]
"Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook." [1913 Webster]
See Eccentric, and V-hook. [1913 Webster]
A snare; a trap. Shak. [1913 Webster]
A field sown two years in succession. [1913 Webster]
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones. [1913 Webster]
A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook in New Jersey. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball; in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer who struck the ball. [PJC]
A procedure within the encoding of a computer program which allows the user to modify the program so as to import data from or export data to other programs. [PJC]

By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. “In hope her to attain by hook or crook.” Spenser. -- Off the hook, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as, to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job. [Colloq.] -- Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] “In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river.” Pepys.<-- = out of joint --> -- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. -- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

hook, v. t.

To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. [1913 Webster]
"Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice." [1913 Webster]
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. [1913 Webster]
To steal. [1913 Webster]

To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.

hook, v. i.

To bend; to curve as a hook. [1913 Webster]
To move or go with a sudden turn; Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

hook, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a piece of metal or other material bent back at an angle or with a round bend, for catching hold or for hanging things on. b (in full fish-hook) a bent piece of wire, usu. barbed and baited, for catching fish.
2 a curved cutting instrument (reaping-hook).
3 a a sharp bend, e.g. in a river. b a projecting point of land (Hook of Holland). c a sand-spit with a curved end.
4 a Cricket & Golf a hooking stroke (see sense 5 of v.). b Boxing a short swinging blow with the elbow bent and rigid.
5 a trap, a snare.
6 a a curved stroke in handwriting, esp. as made in learning to write. b Mus. an added stroke transverse to the stem in the symbol for a quaver etc.
7 (in pl.) sl. fingers.
--v.
1 tr. a grasp with a hook. b secure with a hook or hooks.
2 (often foll. by on, up) a tr. attach with or as with a hook. b intr. be or become attached with a hook.
3 tr. catch with or as with a hook (he hooked a fish; she hooked a husband).
4 tr. sl. steal.
5 tr. a Cricket play (the ball) round from the off to the on side with an upward stroke. b (also absol.) Golf strike (the ball) so that it deviates towards the striker.
6 tr. Rugby Football secure (the ball) and pass it backward with the foot in the scrum.
7 tr. Boxing strike (one's opponent) with the elbow bent and rigid.

Idiom

be hooked on sl. be addicted to or captivated by. by hook or by crook by one means or another, by fair means or foul. hook and eye a small metal hook and loop as a fastener on a garment. hook it sl. make off, run away. hook, line, and sinker entirely. hook-nose an aquiline nose. hook-nosed having an aquiline nose. hook-up a connection, esp. an interconnection of broadcasting equipment for special transmissions. off the hook
1 colloq. no longer in difficulty or trouble.
2 (of a telephone receiver) not on its rest, and so preventing incoming calls. off the hooks sl. dead. on one's own hook sl. on one's own account. sling (or take) one's hook sl. = hook it.

Derivative

hookless adj. hooklet n. hooklike adj.

Etymology

OE hoc: sense 3 of n. prob. influenced by Du. hoek corner

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THESAURUS

hook

L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, bar, batten, batten down, belt, bend, bend back, berth, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bill, birdlime, bola, bolo punch, bolt, boom, boost, borrow, bow, branch, breakwater, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, buckle, butt, button, cabbage, cant, cape, captivate, capture, catacaustic, catch, catch out, catenary, caustic, charm, chersonese, chevron, circle, clasp, claws, cleared, cleat, clip, clotheshorse, clothespin, clutches, cobweb, coin, collar, come what may, come-on, completely, con, conchoid, convince, cop, coral reef, corner, crane, crank, crib, crook, crotchet, curl, curve, decoy, decoy duck, decurve, deflect, deflection, defraud, delta, diacaustic, digits, dogleg, dome, dovetail, dragnet, draw over, drawcard, drawing card, elbow, ell, ellipse, embezzle, embow, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entirely, entoil, entrap, enweb, exonerated, extort, fangs, fastener, festoon, filch, fingernails, fingers, fishhook, flex, fly, foreland, fork, foul, furcate, furcation, gain, gain over, gallows, garter, gibbet, gill net, gin, grab, ground bait, hake, hands, hanger, harpoon, hasp, haymaker, head, headland, hinge, hitch, holder, hook, hook in, hooks, horse, hump, hunch, hyperbola, in the clear, incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, inveigle, jam, jaws, jig, joint, knee, knob, land, lariat, lasso, latch, let off, liberate, lift, lime, line, lituus, lock, loop, lure, make off with, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, mesh, meshes, miter, mitts, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mortise, mudhook, mull, nab, nail, nails, naze, ness, net, nick, nip, nippers, nook, noose, off, one-two, out of it, outtalk, palm, parabola, peg, peninsula, persuade, pilfer, pin, pincers, pinch, plug, poach, point, pothook, pounces, pound net, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, promontory, purloin, purse seine, quoin, rabbet, recurve, reef, reflect, reflex, remove, retroflex, ring, rip off, rivet, rob, rope, round, round-arm blow, roundhouse, run away with, rustle, sack, sag, sandspit, scarf, screw, scrounge, seine, seize, sell, sell one on, set free, sew, shoplift, short-arm blow, sidewinder, sinus, skewer, slip, snag, snap, snare, snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, somehow or other, someway, spar, spear, spinner, spit, spread the toils, springe, spur, squid, staple, steal, stick, stitch, stud, suspenders, suspensory, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, swindle, swing, swipe, tack, take, talk into, talk over, talons, tangle, tangle up with, teeth, thieve, thoroughly, through and through, toggle, toils, tongue, totally, tracery, trap, trawl, trip, turn, unguals, ungulae, uppercut, utterly, vault, veer, vertex, vindicated, walk off with, wangle, wangle into, wear down, wedge, wholly, win, win over, wind, wobbler, yard, yardarm, zag, zig, zigzag, zipper

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Junction

VB join, unite, conjoin, connect, associate, put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together, embody, reembody, roll into one, attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast, tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain, fetter, lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket, marry, bridge over, span, braze, pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet, impact, solder, set, weld together, fuse together, wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase, graft, ingraft, inosculate, entwine, intwine, interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, entangle, twine round, belay, tighten, trice up, screw up, be joined, hang together, hold together, cohere.

Connection

N connection, vinculum, link, connective, connection, junction, bond of union, copula, hyphen, intermedium, bracket, bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus, bond, tendon, tendril, fiber, cord, cordage, riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain, string, fastener, fastening, tie, ligament, ligature, strap, tackle, rigging, standing rigging, running rigging, traces, harness, yoke, band ribband, bandage, brace, roller, fillet, inkle, with, withe, withy, thong, braid, girder, tiebeam, girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot, cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim, suspenders, pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener, clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp, cramp, cramp iron, ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl, terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle, clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag, tooth, hook, hook and eye, lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet, anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post, cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout, viscum, shackle, rein, prop.

Retention

N retention, retaining, keep, detention, custody, tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum, bond, clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice, paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif, bird in hand, captive, retaining, retentive, tenacious, unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated, incommunicable, inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement, uti possidetis.

Taking

VB take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket, receive, accept, reap, crop, cull, pluck, gather, draw, appropriate, expropriate, impropriate, assume, possess oneself of, take possession of, commandeer, lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on, help oneself to, make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution, intercept, scramble for, deprive of, take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off, adeem, abstract, hurry off with, run away with, abduct, steal, ravish, seize, pounce upon, spring upon, swoop to, swoop down upon, take by storm, take by assault, snatch, reave, snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up, kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on, get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of, lay by the heels, take prisoner, fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of, catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at, reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand, take from, take away from, disseize, deduct, retrench, dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp, tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from, extort, deprive of, bereave, disinherit, cut off with a shilling, oust, divest, levy, distrain, confiscate, sequester, sequestrate, accroach, usurp, despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home, drain, drain to the dregs, gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up, absorb, draw off, suck the blood of, suck like a leech, retake, resume, recover.

Pendency

N pendency, dependency, suspension, hanging, pedicel, pedicle, peduncle, tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum, hangnail peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook, fastening, spar, horse, pendent, pendulous, pensile, hanging, beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting, dependent, suspended, loose, flowing, having a peduncle, pedunculate, tailed, caudate.

Curvature

N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.

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Table of Contents -- joint POS
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Noun, Verb (transitive), Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun joint has 6 senses

joint(n = noun.body) articulatio, articulation - (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion);

has particulars: fetlock, fetlock joint, hock, hock-joint, knee, stifle, elbow, fibrous joint, sutura, suture, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis, synovial joint

is a kind of body part

has parts: hip socket, articular muscle

is a part of articulatory system, endoskeleton

joint(n = noun.artifact) - a disreputable place of entertainment;

is a kind of spot

joint(n = noun.shape) articulation, join, junction, juncture - the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made;

has particulars: esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction

is a kind of connection, connexion, link

Derived forms verb joint₃, verb joint₂, verb joint₁

joint(n = noun.food) roast - a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion;

is a kind of cut, cut of meat

has particulars: blade roast, pot roast, rib roast, standing rib roast, top round, rump roast, beef roast, roast beef, roast veal, veal roast, lamb roast, roast lamb, pork roast, roast pork

joint(n = noun.artifact) - junction by which parts or objects are joined together;

has particulars:

ball-and-socket joint

mortise-and-tenon joint

is a kind of conjunction, junction

Derived forms verb joint₃, verb joint₁

joint(n = noun.artifact) marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick - marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking;

is a kind of butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag

Adjective joint has 3 senses

joint(a = adj.all) - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"

Antonym:

separate

joint(s = adj.all) - affecting or involving two or more; "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership"
joint(s = adj.all) - involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress"

Verb joint has 4 senses

joint(v = verb.stative) - fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly"

is one way to

fit

Derived forms noun joint₅, noun joint₃

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

joint(v = verb.possession) articulate - provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"

is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply

Derived forms noun joint₃, noun jointer₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

joint(v = verb.contact) - fasten with a joint;

Derived forms noun joint₅, noun joint₃

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

joint(v = verb.contact) - separate (meat) at the joint;

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

joint, n. [F. joint, fr. joindre, p. p. joint. See Join.].

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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel,
Must glove this hand." [1913 Webster]

"To tear thee joint by joint." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. [1913 Webster]
A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. [1913 Webster]
The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint. [1913 Webster]
The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. [1913 Webster]
A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
a marijuana cigarette. [PJC]
prison; -- used with “the”. [PJC]

Coursing joint (Masonry), the mortar joint between two courses of bricks or stones. -- Fish joint, Miter joint, Universal joint, etc. See under Fish, Miter, etc. -- Joint bolt, a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood, one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of the pieces. -- Joint chair (Railroad), the chair that supports the ends of abutting rails. -- Joint coupling, a universal joint for coupling shafting. See under Universal. -- Joint hinge, a hinge having long leaves; a strap hinge. -- Joint splice, a reënforce at a joint, to sustain the parts in their true relation. -- Joint stool. (a) A stool consisting of jointed parts; a folding stool. Shak. (b) A block for supporting the end of a piece at a joint; a joint chair. -- Out of joint, out of place; dislocated, as when the head of a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well together; disordered. “The time is out of joint.” Shak.

joint, a. [F., p. p. of joindre. See Join.].

Joined; united; combined; concerted; as, joint action. [1913 Webster]
Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. [1913 Webster]
"I read this joint effusion twice over." [1913 Webster]
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. Donne. [1913 Webster]
Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. [1913 Webster]
"A joint burden laid upon us all." [1913 Webster]

Joint committee (Parliamentary Practice), a committee composed of members of the two houses of a legislative body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions of the two houses are necessary. Cushing. -- Joint meeting, or Joint session, the meeting or session of two distinct bodies as one; as, a joint meeting of committees representing different corporations; a joint session of both branches of a State legislature to chose a United States senator. “Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared.” Joint Rules of Congress, U. S. -- Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. “By the constitution of the United States and the rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made between bills and joint resolutions.” Barclay (Digest). -- Joint rule (Parliamentary Practice), a rule of proceeding adopted by the concurrent action of both branches of a legislative assembly. “Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the remainder of the session.” Journal H. of R., U. S. -- Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together or either of them individually; used especially in the phrase joint and several liability. -- Joint stock, stock held in company. -- Joint-stock company (Law), a species of partnership, consisting generally of a large number of members, having a capital divided, or agreed to be divided, into shares, the shares owned by any member being usually transferable without the consent of the rest. -- Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole. Blackstone. -- Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint tenancy. Contrassted with tenant in common.

joint, v. t.

To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. [1913 Webster]
"Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood." [1913 Webster]
To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. [1913 Webster]
"Jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar." [1913 Webster]
To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. [1913 Webster]
"The fingers are jointed together for motion." [1913 Webster]
To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
"Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting." [1913 Webster]

joint, v. i.

To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

joint, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a a place at which two things are joined together. b a point at which, or a contrivance by which, two parts of an artificial structure are joined.
2 a structure in an animal body by which two bones are fitted together.
3 a any of the parts into which an animal carcass is divided for food. b any of the parts of which a body is made up.
4 sl. a place of meeting for drinking etc.
5 sl. a marijuana cigarette.
6 the part of a stem from which a leaf or branch grows.
7 a piece of flexible material forming the hinge of a book-cover.
8 Geol. a fissure in a mass of rock.
--adj.
1 held or done by, or belonging to, two or more persons etc. in conjunction (a joint mortgage; joint action).
2 sharing with another in some action, state, etc. (joint author; joint favourite).
--v.tr.
1 connect by joints.
2 divide (a body or member) at a joint or into joints.
3 fill up the joints of (masonry etc.) with mortar etc.; trim the surface of (a mortar joint).
4 prepare (a board etc.) for being joined to another by planing its edge.

Idiom

joint account a bank account held by more than one person, each of whom has the right to deposit and withdraw funds. joint and several (of a bond etc.) signed by more than one person, of whom each is liable for the whole sum. joint stock capital held jointly; a common fund. joint-stock company one formed on the basis of a joint stock. out of joint
1 (of a bone) dislocated.
2 out of order.

Derivative

jointless adj. jointly adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF, past part. of joindre JOIN

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THESAURUS

joint

Babylon, DET, DMT, Gomorrah, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, Sodom, THC, abutment, abysm, abyss, accessory, accompanying, accordant, accumulated, acid, agglomerate, aggregate, agreeing, amalgamated, amassed, ankle, antidepressant, appendage, arm, arroyo, articulate, articulation, aspic, assembled, assimilated, associate, associated, at one with, ataractic, attendant, attending, bagnio, barbecue, batten, batten down, bawdyhouse, betting house, betting parlor, blended, boiled meat, bolt, bordello, bough, bouilli, boundary, box canyon, branch, breach, break, brothel, buckle, bunched, bundled, butt, button, canyon, casino, cathouse, cavity, cervix, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, civet, clasp, cleat, cleft, cleuch, clinch, clip, clip joint, closure, clough, clumped, clustered, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coadunate, coefficient, coincident, col, collaborative, collateral, collected, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combinative, combinatory, combined, combining, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutual, compact, comprehensive, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concourse, concurrent, concurring, confluence, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, conjunctive, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, connective, conniving, consilient, consolidated, conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, corporate, correlative, coulee, couloir, coupled, coupling, coworking, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crib, crux, cumulate, cut, cwm, defile, dell, den, den of iniquity, den of thieves, den of vice, diethyltryptamine, dike, dimethyltryptamine, disorderly house, ditch, dive, donga, dovetail, draw, dump, eclectic, ecumenic, elbow, embrace, excavation, fascicled, fasciculated, fault, fellow, fissure, flat, flaw, flesh, fleshpots, flume, forcemeat, fracture, furrow, fused, gage, gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house, game, gaming house, ganja, gap, gape, gash, gathered, general, gliding joint, glomerate, gorge, grass, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gyp joint, hachis, hallucinogen, hand, hangout, harmonious, harmonized, hash, hashish, hasp, hay, heaped, hell, hellhole, hemp, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hole, honky-tonk, hook, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, imp, in common, in session, incision, inclusive, incorporated, integrated, interconnection, interface, intersection, jam, jerky, join, joined, joining, jugged hare, junction, juncture, kava, kloof, knee, knotted, knuckle, lair, latch, leagued, leak, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, lock, lumped, marijuana, massed, meat, meeting, member, menue viande, merged, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mince, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, miter, mixed, moat, morning glory seeds, mortise, mutual, nail, neck, noncompetitive, notch, nullah, offshoot, one, opening, organ, packaged, paired, panel den, panel house, parallel, parasitic, pass, passage, peg, pemmican, peyote, piled, pin, pinion, pivot, pivot joint, poolroom, popular, pot, pot roast, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, public, rabbet, ramification, ravine, reciprocal, red-light district, reefer, rent, respective, rift, rime, rivet, roach, roast, runner, rupture, saprophytic, sausage meat, scarf, scion, scissure, scrapple, screw, seam, sew, shared, shoulder, simultaneous, sink, sink of corruption, sink of iniquity, skewer, slit, slot, snap, social, socialistic, societal, split, sporting house, spray, sprig, spur, stacked, staple, stew, stews, stick, stitch, suture, switch, symbiotic, symphysis, syncretistic, syncretized, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synthesized, tack, tail, tea, tenderloin, tendril, tie, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, tranquilizer, trench, twig, twin, two-way, uncompetitive, union, united, uniting, valley, venison, viande, void, wadi, wedge, weed, weld, whorehouse, wing, wrapped up, wrist, zipper

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Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno, junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Accompaniment

N accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Fold

N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.

Food

N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.

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