| inglés > español | |
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| joint | |
| 1. adj. Conjunto | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| joint | |
| 1. adj. Done by two or more people or organisations working together. |  |
| The play was a joint production between the two companies. | |
| 2. s. 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. | |
| 3. s. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly. | |
| The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes. | |
| 4. s. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened. | |
| 5. s. 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. s. A cut of meat. | |
| Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time. | |
| 7. s. 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. s. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint. | |
| 9. s. (chiefly US slang) 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. | |
| 10. s. (slang) prison | |
| I'm just trying to stay out of the joint. | |
| 11. s. (slang) A marijuana cigarette. | |
| After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint. | |
| 12. v. To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together | |
| to joint boards, a jointing plane | |
| 13. v. To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. | |
| 14. v. To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. | |
| 15. v. To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do. | |
| the stones joint, neatly. | |
| español > inglés | |
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| articulación | |
| 1. n-f. (anatomy) joint | |
| 2. n-f. articulation | |
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