Definition: 1. Involving two or more people together. 2. A disreputable place of entertainment. 3. The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.
Use 'joint' in a sentence:
1. A joint committee will soon seek further co-operation between Egypt and Spain in industry, trade, investment and science and technology.
2. The drills which will begin on the 17th are the first major joint exercises of Western and Eastern armies under NATO's partnership.
3. Most artificial joints are cemented into place.
4. Her sister-in-law's nose is a little out of joint.
5. The whole joint angles out horizontally from the neck, like a coat hanger.
6. He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mold them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
7. We have an internal brace that prevents the tissues from stretching but still allows you to mobilize the joint with some confidence.
8. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners—or writers and readers—perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles.
9. What happens if through disease a hip-joint ceases to be able to resist such forces?
10. This condition can lead to severe joint pain.
11. It was also agreed to reactivate two joint committees on negotiations.
12. We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance joint weapons whose costs always overrun hugely.
13. Eurosilva should support joint European research on tree diseases and their physiological and biochemical aspects.
14. There was something out of joint in the situation. Something was strange.
15. The Belgium-European Union has a joint pavilion at the Expo.
16. They issued a joint statement denying the charges.
17. It was granted a monopoly on joint-stock banking by Parliament in return for giving war loans to the government.
18. Perhaps the claim then is that dying is not something that can be done in that way as a joint undertaking.
19. A proposed joint project would develop a prototype or demonstration model for the "21st-century national information infrastructure".
20. Only by their joint efforts, can parents and children bridge the generation gap between them.
21. Jackie and Ben came to a joint decision as to where they would live.
22. In the years since he stopped running, his joint had deteriorated badly.
23. The two sides signed many other agreements covering Brazilian port construction, and the joint launch of two satellites.
24. First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience of the two people involved.
25. Before we discuss the joint practices, let me be clear about what the practices are and are not.
26. Joint practices pull all of the members of our "one team" together; everybody needs to do these all the time.
27. These joint undertakings are like, you might think of them analogous to playing chamber music with a string quartet.
28. It was as if he had been clipped at every joint.
29. There would continue to be a joint command of US and Saudi forces operating within Saudi borders.
30. Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate.
31. Her joints ache if she exercises.
32. It may be that you are unaware of where your hip joint is; it is not at the waist but a good hand span below it.
33. Called "the Wattway," the roads will be built through joint efforts with the French road-building company Colas and the National Institute of Solar Energy.
34. The US President Richard Nixon paid an official visit to China, during which Sino-US joint communique was issued in Shanghai.
35. The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.
36. The glass cover for this is cleverly jointed in the middle.
37. She and Frank had never gotten around to opening a joint account.
38. It is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats.
39. Defense experts say joint projects are increasingly squeezed by budget pressures.
40. Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
41. The countries in which the tigers' habitats are located are currently debating joint legislation that would ban tiger hunting.
42. He carved the joint of beef.
43. It will be sold to a joint venture created by Dow Jones and Westinghouse Broadcasting.
44. It would have to grow by acquisitions or joint ventures to achieve global reach.
45. They had come to the world's most famous pick-up joint.
46. They finished in joint first place.
47. A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
48. They were joint owners of the house.
49. The far-reaching pact has also made sure the Cold War is consigned to history with a joint peace declaration.
50. The pain that penetrates each joint is brought about by a change in air pressure, such as the change that proceeds a storm.
51. The electoral timetable seems to be out of joint with the need for change.
52. The knee and ankle joints must be immobilized — this usually means up to six weeks in plaster.
53. The symptoms include skin rashes, fever, and painful joints.
54. General Powell predicted that in the future it might even be possible to stage joint military exercises.
55. If the family home and joint pension rights are of equal value, the wife may choose the former and the husband the latter.
