Butting joint
() A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts |
Butt joint
() A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. |
Contraction
(n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking |
Contraction
(n.) The process of shortening an operation. |
Contraction
(n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc. |
Contraction
(n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase |
Contraction
(n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one |
Contraction
(n.) A marriage contract. |
Crack
(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts |
Crack
(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain |
Crack
(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply |
Crack
(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously |
Crack
(v. t.) To cry up |
Crack
(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks |
Crack
(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired |
Crack
(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. |
Crack
(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words |
Crack
(n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening |
Crack
(n.) Rupture |
Crack
(n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report |
Crack
(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty. |
Crack
(n.) Mental flaw |
Crack
(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person. |
Crack
(n.) A boast |
Crack
(n.) Breach of chastity. |
Crack
(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. |
Crack
(n.) A brief time |
Crack
(n.) Free conversation |
Crack
(a.) Of superior excellence |
Crack-brained
(a.) Having an impaired intellect |
Desiccation
(n.) The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated. |
Fissure
(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance |
Fissure
(v. t.) To cleave |
Hooke's joint
() A universal joint. See under Universal. |
Joint
(n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united |
Joint
(n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion |
Joint
(n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations |
Joint
(n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. |
Joint
(n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. |
Joint
(n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc. |
Joint
(n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. |
Joint
(a.) Joined |
Joint
(a.) Involving the united activity of two or more |
Joint
(a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others |
Joint
(a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more |
Joint
(v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints |
Joint
(v. t.) To join |
Joint
(v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints |
Joint
(v. t.) To separate the joints |
Joint
(v. i.) To fit as if by joints |
| retreat | the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) |
| retirement retreat | withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation, the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity |
| retreat | (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat, the disorderly retreat of French troops |
| contraction | the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope |
contraction muscular contraction
muscle contraction | (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) |
| uterine contraction | a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal |
Braxton-Hicks contraction
false labor | painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency |
fracture
crack
cracking | the act of cracking something |
shoplifting
shrinkage | the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store, shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting |
| joint venture | a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise, a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows |
crack fling go pass whirl
offer | a usually brief attempt, he took a crack at it, I gave it a whirl |
glass lizard
glass snake
joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
| fetlock fetlock joint | the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern |
hock
hock-joint | tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals, corresponds to the human ankle |
| artificial joint | a metal or plastic part that is surgically implanted to replace a natural joint (possibly elbow or wrist but usually hip or knee) |
| ball-and-socket joint | a joint that can rotate within a socket |
butt joint
butt | a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping |
| clip joint | a place of entertainment where high prices are charged for poor entertainment |
crack crack cocaine
tornado | a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted, highly addictive |
dovetail
dovetail joint | a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises |
| fish joint | a butt joint formed by bolting fish plates to the sides of two rails or beams |
gap
crack | a narrow opening, he opened the window a crack |
hideaway
retreat | an area where you can be alone |
hinge
flexible joint | a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other |
joint
marijuana cigarette
reefer
stick spliff | marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking |
| joint | junction by which parts or objects are joined together |
| joint | a disreputable place of entertainment |
Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
juke
jook
juke joint
jook joint
juke house
jook house | a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox |
knuckle joint
hinge joint | a joint allowing movement in one plane only |
lap joint
splice | joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together |
miter joint
mitre joint
miter mitre | joint that forms a corner, usually both sides are bevelled at a -degree angle to form a -degree corner |
mortise joint
mortise-and-tenon joint | a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other |
| rabbet joint | a joint formed by fitting together two rabbeted boards |
| rib joint pliers | a type of pliers |
scarf joint
scarf | a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end |
| slip-joint pliers | pliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws |
strap hinge
joint hinge | a hinge with two long straps, one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame |
| toggle joint | a joint made by two arms attached by a pivot, used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint |
| tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
universal joint
universal | coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions, in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps |
| crack | a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts, there was a crack in the mirror |
| joint probability | the probability of two events occurring together |
| shrinkage | the amount by which something shrinks |
| fissure | (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes |
fissure of Rolando
Rolando's fissure
central sulcus
sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
fissure of Sylvius
Sylvian fissure
lateral cerebral sulcus
sulcus lateralis cerebri | the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures, separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres |
parieto-occipital sulcus
parieto-occipital fissure | a sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres |
calcarine sulcus
calcarine fissure | a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum |
mandibular joint
temporomandibular joint
articulatio temporomandibularis | the joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone |