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Joint can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
joint used as a noun:
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
"This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform." - The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
"The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes." - Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A means of joining two pieces of wood together so that they interlock.
"The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong." - A cut of meat.
"Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time." - A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- A restaurant, bar, nightclub or similar business.
"It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in." - (always with the) prison
"I'm just trying to stay out of the joint." - A marijuana cigarette.
"After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
joint used as an adjective:
- Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
"The play was a joint production between the two companies."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
joint used as a verb:
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
"Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood. - Alexander Pope" - To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
"Jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar. -" - To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
"The fingers are jointed together for motion. - Ray." - To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
"He joints the neck. - Dryden." - To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is joint?
- Noun usage: This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.
- Noun usage: The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.
- Noun usage: The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.
- Noun usage: Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.
- Noun usage: It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
- Noun usage: I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.
- Noun usage: After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.
- Adjective usage: The play was a joint production between the two companies.
- Verb usage: Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood. - Alexander Pope
- Verb usage: Jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar. -
- Verb usage: The fingers are jointed together for motion. - Ray.
- Verb usage: He joints the neck. - Dryden.
- Verb usage: Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting. - Holland.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of joint are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of joint, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
