jointとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔɪnt/
• 韻: -ɔɪnt

形容詞

joint (not comparable)

1. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

   The play was a joint production between the two companies.

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     A joint burden laid upon us all.

   Synonyms: mutual, shared

同意語

• see also Thesaurus:joint

派生語

名詞

joint (複数形 joints)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: hinge, pivot

2. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

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

3. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
4. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.

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

6. A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.

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

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

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

8. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
9. (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.

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

   • 1996, Deirdre Purcell, Roses After Rain, p. 335:

     "...Where's the ladies' in this joint? I've to powder me nose."

   • 2021 August 18, Cobaj, Lee, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-25‎^[2]:

     Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

   1. (slang, dated) A place of resort for tramps.
   2. (slang, US, dated) An opium den.
10. (slang, with the definite article) Prison.

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

11. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.

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

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

12. (slang, dated) A syringe used to inject an illicit drug.
    • 1954, Listen (volumes 7-10, page 131)

      Captain Jack McMahon, chief of Houston's police narcotics division, holds tools of the “junkie” trade, including “joints” (syringes), needles, heroin, milk sugar (used to cut pure heroin), spoons for heating a shot of heroin (mixed with water), […]

13. (US, slang) The penis.^[1]
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:

      Inez called up Camille on the phone repeatedly and had long talks with her; they even talked about his joint, or so Dean claimed.

    • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, “Cunt Crazy,” p. 158,^[3]

      There I was, going down at last on the star of all those pornographic films that I had been producing in my head since I first laid a hand upon my own joint . . .

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

14. (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.

    a Spike Lee joint

    Compare: jawn

派生語

動詞

joint (三人称単数 現在形 joints, 現在分詞 jointing, 過去形および過去分詞形 jointed)

1. (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together

   to joint boards

   a jointing plane

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.

   • 2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎^[4]:

     But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.

2. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     But soon that war had end, and the time's state
     Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Caesar

3. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     The fingers are […] jointed together for motion.

4. (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “[The Morals, or Miscellane Works of Plutarch. The Second Tome.] The Seventh Book. Of Symposiaques, or Banquet-Discourses.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 750:

     Another time alſo being minded to entertain king Priamus friendly, when he came unto his pavilion: / He then beſtir'd himſelfe, and caught up ſoone, / A good white ſheepe, whoſe throat he cut anon. / but about cutting it up, quartering, jointing, ſeething, and roſting, he ſpent a great part of the night: […]

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     He joints the neck.

5. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

   the stones joint, neatly.

参照

• joint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913