1. United or combined
   "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners" 
2. Affecting or involving two or more
   "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership" 
3. Involving both houses of a legislature
   "a joint session of Congress"

1. (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
   - articulation, articulatio 
2. A disreputable place of entertainment 
3. The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
   - articulation, join, juncture, junction 
4. A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
   - roast 
5. Junction by which parts or objects are joined together 
6. Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
   - marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff

1. Fit as if by joints 
2. Provide with a joint
   "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
   - articulate 
3. Fasten with a joint 
4. Separate (meat) at the joint

Derived forms: joints, jointing, jointed

See also: clannish, collective, common, concerted, conjoined, conjoint, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, corporate, cosignatory, integrated, jointer, jointly, many-sided, multilateral, shared, united

Type of: body part, butt, cig, cigaret [US], cigarette, ciggy [Brit], coffin nail, conjunction, connection, connexion [Brit], cut, cut of meat, disunite, divide, fag [Brit], fasten, fit, fix, furnish, gasper [Brit], go, junction, link, part, provide, render, secure, separate, spot, supply

Antonym: separate

Part of: articulatory system, endoskeleton

Encyclopedia: Joint

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