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Adjective joint has 3 senses

joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
Antonyms: separate, abstracted, removed, apart, asunder, detached, separated, set-apart, discrete, distinct, disjoint, disjunct, isolated, isolable
joint - affecting or involving two or more; "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership"
Antonym: unshared (indirect, via shared)
joint - involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress"
Antonyms: unilateral, one-sided (indirect, via multilateral, bilateral)
Antonyms: multilateral, many-sided (indirect, via bilateral, unilateral)

Noun joint has 6 senses

joint, articulation, articulatio - (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)
--₁ is a kind of body part
--₁ is a part of articulatory system; endoskeleton
--₁ has parts: hip socket; articular muscle
--₁ has particulars:
fetlock, fetlock joint; hock; stifle, knee; elbow; suture, sutura, fibrous joint; synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis
joint - a disreputable place of entertainment
--₂ is a kind of spot
articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction - the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
--₃ is a kind of connection, connexion, link
--₃ has particulars: esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction
Derived forms: verb joint₃, verb joint₂, verb joint₁
roast, joint - a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
--₄ is a kind of cut, cut of meat
--₄ has particulars:
blade roast; pot roast; rib roast, standing rib roast; top round; rump roast; beef roast, roast beef; veal roast, roast veal; lamb roast, roast lamb; pork roast, roast pork

joint - junction by which parts or objects are joined together
--₅ is a kind of junction, conjunction
--₅ has particulars:

Derived forms: verb joint₃, verb joint₁

joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff - marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
--₆ is a kind of cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag
--₆ has substances: cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
--₆ has particulars:
juke, jook, juke joint, jook joint, juke house, jook house

Verb joint has 4 senses

joint - fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly"
--₁ is one way to fit, go

Derived forms: noun joint₅, noun joint₃
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
joint, articulate - provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
--₂ is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish

Derived forms: noun joint₃, noun jointer₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
joint - fasten with a joint
--₃ is one way to fasten, fix, secure

Derived forms: noun joint₅, noun joint₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
joint - separate (meat) at the joint
--₄ is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something