Word Finder - joints

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The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

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This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.

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• hinge
• pivot

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The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

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The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.

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Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

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The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.

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The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.

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A cut of meat.

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Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.

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The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.

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a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg

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A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.

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(somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.

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It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.

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(with the definite article) Prison.

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I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.

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A marijuana cigarette.

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After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.

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A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.

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The penis.

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To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together

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a jointing plane

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To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.

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To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

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To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

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To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

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the stones joint, neatly.

But even filters of this type, if they are to be fully relied upon, must be frequently cleaned and sterilized, and great care must be taken that the joints and connexions are watertight, and that the candles are without cracks or flaws.

In this several microphonic joints were employed.

The intervertebral joints are further complicated by the interposition of a cartilaginous or fibrous pad or ring.

Bridges Adams, the intention being by " fishing " the joints to convert the rails into continuous beams. In the original design two chairs were placed, one under each rail, a few inches apart, as in fig.

The joints of flanged rails are similar to those employed with bull-headed rails.

For instance, it is not very uncommon to find persons who can make loud sounds by partially dislocating and restoring the toe, knee, or other joints, and some experiments made with the Fox girls in 1851 supported the view that they made raps by this method.

Their support being removed they break away in the direction of natural joints, and the fragments fall down the slope upon the vegetable soil.

The union of the index and middle fingers by means of a web extending as far as the terminal joints is the distinctive feature of the siamang, which is the largest of the group, and black in colour with a white frontal band.

In the Puerco, or Lowest Eocene of North America the place of the above species was taken by Euprotogonia puercensis, an animal only half the size of Phenacodus primaevus, with the terminal joints of the limbs intermediate between hoofs and claws, and the first and fifth toes taking their full share in the support of the weight of the body.

Many vitreous rocks show alteration of this type in certain parts where either the glass has been of unstable nature or where agencies of change such as percolating water have had easiest access (as along joints, perlitic cracks and the margins of dikes and sills).

Many assumptions are made in treating of the flexure of a continuous structure which are not strictly true; no assumption is made in determining the stresses on a frame except that the joints are flexible, and that the frame shall be so stiff as not sensibly to alter in form under the load.

The antennae of Diptera, which are also extremely important in classification, are thread-like in the more primitive families, such as the Tipulidae (daddy-long-legs), where they consist of a considerable number of joints, all of which except the first two, and sometimes also the last two, are similar in shape; in the more specialized families, such as the Tabanidae (horse-flies), Syrphidae (hover-flies) or Muscidae (house-flies, blue-bottles and their allies), the number of antennal joints is greatly reduced by coalescence, so that the antennae appear to consist of only three joints.

The antennae are long and thread-like, composed at first of few joints, but the number of these latter apparently increases at each moult.

The Silurian scorpion Palaeophonus, differs, so far as obvious points are concerned, from a modern scorpion only in the thickness of its legs and in their terminating in strong spike-like joints, instead of being slight and provided with a pair of terminal claws.

Subsequently straws are selected from the sheaves, and of these the pipes of the two upper joints are taken for plaiting.

A vine, for instance, that produces bunches of grapes at each joint is preferable to one in which there are several barren joints, as a larger quantity can be grown within a smaller area.

The stems are solid and marked with numerous shining, polished, yellow, purple or striped joints, 3 in.

In many calcareous forms, .both Cheilostomes and Cyclostomes, the zoarium is rendered flexible by the interposition of chitinous joints at intervals.

Diagonal bracing or strutting is nowhere to be found, and in many cases mortises and other joints are such as very materially to weaken the timbers at their points of connection.

The restricted area on which the pressure acts at the lead joints involves greater intensity of stress than has been usual in arched bridges.

This polygon of forces may, by a slight extension of the above definition, be called the reciprocal figure of the external forces, if the sides are arranged in the same order as that of the joints on which they act, so that if the joints and forces be numbered I, 2, 3, 4, &c., passing round the outside of the frame in one direction, and returning at last to joint 1, then in the polygon the side representing the force 2 will be next the side representing the force I, and will be followed by the side representing the force 3, and so forth.

Owing to the yielding of joints when a beam is first loaded a smaller modulus of elasticity should be taken than for a solid bar.

Throughout her life she had enjoyed excellent health, and even in the last few years the only marks of age were rheumatic stiffness of the joints, which prevented walking, and a diminished power of eyesight.

On the Hessian fly, Cecidomyia destructor, Say, the May brood of which produces swellings immediately above the joints of barley attacked by it, see Asa Fitch, The Hessian Fly (Albany, 1847), reprinted from Trans.

In September 1839 a 3-foot speculum was finished and mounted on an altazimuth stand similar to Herschel's; but, though the definition of the images was good (except that the diffraction at the joints of the speculum caused minute rays in the case of a very bright star), and its peculiar skeleton form allowed the speculum to follow atmospheric changes of temperature very quickly, Lord Rosse decided to cast a solid 3-foot speculum.

When blasting is resorted to, advantage is taken of the natural cuts or joints, as the rock is readily thrown or worked off these.

The mandibles are normally five-jointed, with remnants of an outer branch on the second joint, the biting edge varying from strong development to evanescence, the terminal joints or " palp " giving the organ a leg-like appearance and function, which disappears in suctorial genera such as Paracytherois.

The wood of the fly honeysuckle is extremely hard, and the clear portions between the joints of the stems, when their pith has been removed, were stated by Linnaeus to be utilized in Sweden for making tobacco-pipes.

You can find high-end restaurants, college hamburger joints and any kind of ethnic food you want downtown.

From pub-like joints with spurs on the walls and fries on the grill to first-class suit-and-tie arrangements, steakhouses come in all styles and types.

They are remarkable for skill in the massing of light and shade, richness and delicacy of colouring, and for the admirable style in which the drapery of the figures is handled, Bartolommeo having been the first to introduce and use the lay-figure with joints.

The pipes are best supported on rollers which allow of movement without straining the joints.

It is customary to divide the Orthorrhapha into the two divisions Nematocera and Brachycera, in the former of which the antennae are elongate and in a more or less primitive condition, as described above, while in the latter these organs are short, and, as already explained, apparently composed of only three joints.

The golden statues were votive offerings; thus a man and his wife offer four statues for the health of their four children, and a man offers to Dhu Samai statues of a man and two camels, in prayer for his own health and the protection of his camels from disease of the joints.

They have mostly been replaced, decay having taken place at the joints.

In some girder -1 o bridges the members are connected entirely by riveting, in others the principal members are con nected by pin joints.

The reciprocal figure for any loaded frame is a complete formula for the stress on every member of a frame of that particular class with loads on given joints.

The title " branching horns " alludes to the second antennae, which are two-branched except in the females of Holopedium, with each branch setiferous, composed of only two to four joints.

As an architectural term "bevel" is a sloped or canted edge given to a sill or horizontal course of stone, but is more frequently applied to the canted edges worked round the projecting bands of masonry which for decorative purposes are employed on the quoins of walls or windows and in some cases, with vertical joints, cover the whole wall.

The whole was bedded, not in mortar, but in clay, which has mostly been washed out of the joints; originally the surface was probably protected with a coating of stucco.

They occur no less in structures of masonry and brickwork, but in these cases they generally follow the joints, and are almost imperceptible.

In the case of a smooth concrete face there are no joints to follow, and the cracks become an ugly feature.

They are sometimes regulated by forming artificial "joints" in the structure by embedding strips of wood or sheet iron at regular intervals, thus forming "lines of weakness," at which the cracks therefore take place.

Difficulties were at first encountered in making the necessary joints, but these have been overcome by practice and experience.

The joints are packed or caulked with tow, smeared with a mixture of white and red lead.

Flanged joints are made to bolt together on washers of vulcanized rubber.

Many of the free-growing soft-wooded plants may also be grown from cuttings of single joints of the young wood, where rapid increase is desired; and in the case of opposite-leaved plants two cuttings may often be made from one joint by splitting the stem longitudinally, each cutting consisting of a leaf and a perfect bud attached to half the thickness of the stem.

Keep sweet potatoes hoed to prevent the vines rooting at the joints.

The error of flatness of the joints from a straight line and a true square is but thth in.

In the monkey the proportions it assumes are still greater, and the number of foci, for distinct movements of this and that member, indeed for the individual joints of each limb, are much more numerous, and together occupy a more extensive surface, though relatively to the total surface of the brain a smaller one.