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. |
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 |
Joint-fir
(n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed |
Skidding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skid |
Slide
(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling |
Slide
(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass inadvertently. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly |
Slide
(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. |
Slide
(v. t.) To cause to slide |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly |
Slide
(n.) The act of sliding |
Slide
(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress. |
Slide
(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. |
Slide
(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement. |
Slide
(n.) That which operates by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. |
Slide
(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. |
Slide
(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like. |
Slide
(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like |
Slide
(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side |
Slide
(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
Slide
(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. |
Slide
(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics. |
Slide
(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. |
Slide
(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide. |
Slide
(n.) A slide valve. |
Straight-joint
(a.) Having straight joints. |
Straight-joint
(a.) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. |
Straight-joint
(a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge. |
slide
glide
coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| 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 |
| 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 |
chute
slide
slideway
sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
| 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 |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
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 |
pump action
slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
| 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 |
| slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
| slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide
sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |
slide fastener
zip
zipper
zip fastener | a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
| slide projector | projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen |
slide rule
slipstick | analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations, have been replaced by pocket calculators |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
| 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 |