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 |
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 |
analgesic anodyne painkiller pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
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 |
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 |
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 |
joint probability | the probability of two events occurring together |
mandibular joint temporomandibular joint articulatio temporomandibularis | the joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone |
suture sutura fibrous joint | an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) |
synovial joint articulatio synovialis diarthrosis | a joint so articulated as to move freely |
shoulder shoulder joint articulatio humeri | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
knee knee joint human knee articulatio genus genu | hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella |
gliding joint articulatio plana | a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions |
ankle ankle joint mortise joint articulatio talocruralis | a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus |
elbow elbow joint human elbow cubitus cubital joint articulatio cubiti | hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped |
interphalangeal joint | any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers or toes |
hinge joint ginglymus ginglymoid joint | a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane |
wrist carpus wrist joint radiocarpal joint articulatio radiocarpea | a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones |
knuckle knuckle joint metacarpophalangeal joint | a joint of a finger when the fist is closed |
joint articulation articulatio | (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) |
ball-and-socket joint spheroid joint cotyloid joint enarthrodial joint enarthrosis articulatio spheroidea | a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone |
hip hip joint coxa articulatio coxae | the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum |
pivot joint rotary joint rotatory joint articulatio trochoidea | a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation, the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint |
pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain pain sensation painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |