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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

Etymology

From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þres?old, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þresk?þlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, *þreskwan? (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???e?(h)??ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????(h)o?ld/

Noun

threshold (plural thresholds)

1. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
2. (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
3. (by extension) Any end or boundary.
4. (figuratively) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     I arrived at last, did obeisance to my uncle, and told him everything. He thought it over and said: ' […] At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.'

5. (aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.
6. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
7. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
8. The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.

Derived terms

• thresholding
• thresholdless
• thresholdlike

(Expressions:)

• displaced threshold
• Micawber threshold
• threshold braking
• threshold effect
• threshold potential
• threshold worker

Antonyms

• (bottom-most part of a doorway): lintel

Translations