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joint
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A building joint is a junction where building elements meet without applying a static load from one element to another. When one or more of these vertical or horizontal elements that meet are required by the local building code to have a fire-resistance ...
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v. fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly" provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: articulate ] fasten with a joint separate (meat) at the joint
Usage examples of joint.
The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.
Fred were in the habit of sexually and sadistically abusing young girls in the cellar of their house for their joint pleasure.
Each chain over a shore span consists of two segments, the longer attached to the tie at the top of the river tower, the shorter to the link at the top of the abutment tower, and the two jointed together at the lowest point.
It has a large round head, which is received into the acetabulum, thus affording a good illustration of a ball and socket joint.
According to the analogy of all other pulvini, such joints ought to continue circumnutating for a long period, after the adjoining parts have ceased to grow.
Club-feet, wry neck, spinal curvature, hip-joint disease, white swellings, and stiffened joints, are all readily amendable to the curative effects of motion administered by the manipulator and other machinery.
The joints of the elbow, wrist, ankle, or toes, may, however, be affected with this disease, but we shall speak of it in this connection as affecting only the knee-joint.
Rheumatoid and some other forms of arthritis are not diseases associated with aging, but rather autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies attack your cartilage, which is what triggers that inflammation and joint pain.
As it transpired, Micheline de Parnasse was abed that day with an ague in the joints, and I spoke to her assistant instead, the Siovalese lordling.
From across the cell Alec heard the soft, sickening snap of joints separating.
A policy, intelligently informed by the desire to maintain a joint process of individual and social amelioration, should be able to keep a democracy sound and whole both in sentiment and in idea.
Joints is the only place you can pull up, an' when you stop you got to buy somepin so you can sling the bull with the broad behind the counter.
The horses, as well as the men, were clothed in complete armor, the joints of which were artfully adapted to the motions of their bodies.
Only the arthritic swelling and distortion of his finger joints gave any hint of disability or special challenge.
Acute articular rheumatism implies an affection of the articulations or joints.