Definitions for jointed

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jointed joint·ed

Spelling: [join-tid]

IPA: /ˈdʒɔɪn tɪd/

Jointed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in jointed (deijnot).

Definitions for jointed

noun

1. the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
2. a connection between pieces of wood, metal, or the like, often reinforced with nails, screws, or glue.
3. Anatomy, Zoology. the movable or fixed place or part where two bones or elements of a skeleton join. the form or structure of such a part, as a ball-and-socket, hinge, pivot, etc.
4. Chiefly British. one of the large portions into which a section of meat is divided by a butcher, as the shoulder or leg, especially as served at a dining table.
5. Slang.. Also called jay2 . a marijuana cigarette.
6. Slang. a dirty, cheap, or disreputable place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a restaurant or nightclub. a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant, etc.:
7. Biology. a part, especially of a plant, insect, etc., connected with another part by an articulation, node, or the like. a portion between two articulations, nodes, or the like.
8. Botany. the part of a stem from which a branch or leaf grows; node.
9. Geology. a fracture plane in rocks, generally at right angles to the bedding of sedimentary rocks and variously oriented in igneous and metamorphic rocks, commonly arranged in two or more sets of parallel intersecting systems.
10. Mathematics. knot1 (def 12).
11. the joint, Slang. prison:
12. Slang: Vulgar. penis.

Idioms

1. out of joint, dislocated, as a bone. in an unfavorable state; inauspicious: out of keeping; inappropriate:

adjective

1. having or provided with joints.
2. formed with knots or nodes.
3. shared by or common to two or more:
4. undertaken or produced by two or more in conjunction or in common:
5. sharing or acting in common:
6. joined or associated, as in relation, interest, or action:
7. Law. joined together in obligation or ownership:
8. of or relating to both branches of a bicameral legislature.
9. pertaining to or noting diplomatic action in which two or more governments are formally united.

verb (used with object)

1. to unite by a joint or joints.
2. to form or provide with a joint or joints.
3. to cut (a fowl, piece of meat, etc.) at the joint; divide at a joint; separate into pieces at the joints:
4. Carpentry. to prepare (a board or the like) for fitting in a joint. to true the bottom of (a wooden plane body) to allow even movement along the surface of the work.
5. to file the teeth of (a saw) to uniform height.
6. Masonry. to finish (a mortar joint), as by striking.

verb (used without object)

1. to fit together by or as if by joints:

Origin of jointed

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at joint, -ed³

Examples for jointed

As they were jointed in the middle, they rose high in the air above him.

The legs were cylindrical, jointed at knee and thigh with huge discs.

Bow-fronted and semicircular panels are jointed in a similar manner.

The jointed abdomen has also a tuft of bristles at its extremity.

I seemed to myself to be a puppet, a jointed figure, a manikin.

Above the table a number of jointed rods and clamps hung from the ceiling.

Before her pregnancy, Mantel said, the Duchess of Cambridge had been seen as “a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung”.

The chickens should be jointed, the inwards taken out, and the chickens washed.

If the curry dish is to be made of fowls, they should be jointed.

They were huge, jointed things that clanked when they walked.