different between joint vs bellows

English

Etymology

The noun is from Middle English joynt (attested since the late 13th century), from Old French joint (“joint of the body”) (attested since the 12th century). The adjective (attested since the 15th century) is from Old French jointiz. Both Old French words are from Latin i?nctus, the past participle of iung?. See also join, jugular.

The meaning of "building, establishment", especially in connection with shady activities, appeared in Anglo-Irish by 1821 and entered general American English slang by 1877, especially in the sense of "opium den". The sense "marijuana cigarette" is attested since 1935.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt

Adjective

joint (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: mutual, shared

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:joint

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

joint (plural joints)

1. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

   Synonyms: hinge, pivot

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

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.

5. A cut of meat.

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

7. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
8. (chiefly US slang, somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
   • 1996, Deirdre Purcell, Roses After Rain, p. 335:

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

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

10. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

11. (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), […]

12. (US, slang) The penis.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York: New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 205,^[1]

      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,^[2]

      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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

joint (third-person singular simple present joints, present participle jointing, simple past and past participle jointed)

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

   • Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.
2. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
3. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

   • 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.

   • He joints the neck.

   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     Quartering, jointing, seething, and rosting.

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

Translations

References

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English joint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??i?nt/

Noun

joint (plural joints)

1. (slang) joint, marijuana cigarette

   Synonyms: daggazol, zol

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English joint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??i?nt/, /d?o?i?nt/
• Hyphenation: joint

Noun

joint m (plural joints, diminutive jointje n)

1. joint, marijuana cigarette (generally larger than a stickie)

   Synonyms: jonko, stickie, wietsigaret

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??/
• Homophones: joins, joints

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

joint m (feminine singular jointe, masculine plural joints, feminine plural jointes)

1. past participle of joindre

Etymology 2

From the past participle of the verb joindre, or from Latin i?nctus.

Noun

joint m (plural joints)

1. seal

Derived terms

• jointer

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English joint.

Noun

joint m (plural joints)

1. (informal) joint, spliff (marijuana cigarette)

Further reading

• “joint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Verb

joint m (feminine singular jointe, masculine plural joins, feminine plural jointes)

1. past participle of joindre

Old French

Etymology

Past participle of joindre, corresponding to Latin i?nctus.

Noun

joint m (oblique plural joinz or jointz, nominative singular joinz or jointz, nominative plural joint)

1. join; place where two elements are joined together

Verb

joint

1. past participle of joindre

Polish

Etymology

From English joint, from Middle English joynt, from Old French joint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???jnt/

Noun

joint m inan

1. (slang) joint (marijuana cigarette)

   Synonyms: blant, skr?t

Declension

Further reading

• joint in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• joint in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English joint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ojnt/

Noun

joint n (plural jointuri)

1. joint (bar)
2. joint (marijuana cigarette)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /j??nt/, /d???nt/

Noun

joint c

1. a joint, a marijuana cigarette

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?l.o?z/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /?b?l.?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.??z/
• Rhymes: -?l??z

Etymology 1

From Middle English belwes, plural of belu, belwe, a northern form of beli, from Old English belg, cf. bæl?, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz. Compare German Balg. See also belly.

Noun

bellows (plural bellows)

1. A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
2. Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
3. (informal or archaic) The lungs.
4. (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
5. (figuratively) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

Usage notes

• "Bellows" is used with both singular and plural verbs. One can even find "A bellows is/was".

Related terms

• bellowser
• belly
• blow

Translations

Verb

bellows (third-person singular simple present bellowses, present participle bellowsing, simple past and past participle bellowsed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter ,^[1]

     […] I was recommended to the place as a man who could give another man as good as he brought, and I took it. It’s easier than bellowsing and hammering.

   • 1915, John G. Neihardt, The Song of Hugh Glass, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 34,^[2]

     So bellowsed, all the kindled soul of Hugh

     Became a still white hell of brooding ire,

     And through his veins regenerating fire

     Ran, driving out the lethargy of pain.

   • 1920, Arthur Guiterman, “Thunder-Storm” in Ballads of Old New York, New York: Harper & Bros., p. 49,^[3]

     The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather;

     Their hammers are beating the fragments together.

     The cumulus mountains with nebulous gorges

     Are dazzled with flame of the wind-bellowsed forges;

   • 1966, Anthony Burgess, Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, New York: Norton, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 173,^[4]

     He almost let the cigar go out. ‘Good God, no. We’re both exiles, aren’t we?’ He bellowsed the end red again and continued, delicate as a musician, his scoring.

   • 1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), New York: Carroll & Graf, Chapter 10, p. 397,^[5]

     This is a capricious devil, the furnace, though I say it myself, and it wants regular bellowsing.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
   • 1904, A. R. Sennett, Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man, London: Bemrose & Sons, Chapter 6, p. 389,^[6]

     […] [the dogs] sprang up, and, with a grand spraying of the crisp snow as they fleetly clambered up the steep side, they were with us in an incredibly short time, with pink tongues protruding, sides bellowsing, and sterns wagging.

   • 1933, John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, New York: Viking, 1945, Chapter 1, p. 48,^[7]

     The pony still lay on his side and the wound in his throat bellowsed in and out.

   • 1978, Stephen King, The Stand, New York: Random House, 2012, Chapter 25, p. 196,^[8]

     A sick-looking dog sat in the middle of the road, head down, sides bellowsing, white foam dripping from its muzzle to the heat-shimmering pavement.

   • 1998, Loren D. Estleman, Jitterbug, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Chapter Six, p. 53,^[9]

     The old man laughed without making a sound. His chest bellowsed and he opened his mouth to display a horseshoe of gold molars.

3. (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
   • 1916, Roger Pocock, Horses, London: John Murray, 2nd edition, 1917, Chapter 6, pp. 170-171,^[10]

     Without being tight […] the boot leg should fit close. The ankle should be supple as a stocking, and “bellowsed” to make sure of suppleness.

   • 1986, Will D. Campbell, Forty Acres and a Goat, Atlanta: Peachtree, Chapter 9, p. 185,^[11]

     […] the chairman of the gathered scholars […] [shushed] the black waiters preparing to feed us a hefty lunch behind the bellowsed dividing wall with the impatient yell, “You’re disturbing our meeting,” while we discussed their plight on our side of the wall.

   • 1994, Timothy West, I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? Letters from a touring actor, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, p. 139,^[12]

     [The bus] rolled swiftly down the hill and bellowsed five parked cars […]

Etymology 2

See bellow

Noun

bellows

1. plural of bellow

Verb

bellows

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow

Anagrams

• Boswell