Bone vs Joint - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between bone and joint

is that bone is form of trombone|lang=en while joint is a marijuana cigarette.

As nouns the difference between bone and joint

is that bone is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates while joint is the point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

As adjectives the difference between bone and joint

is that bone is of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone while joint is done by two or more people or organisations working together.

As verbs the difference between bone and joint

is that bone is to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from while joint is to unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.

As a proper noun Bône

is a city in eastern Algeria, now known as Annaba.

bone

English

(wikipedia bone)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

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, year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}

(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

(figurative) The framework of anything.

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(US, informal) A dollar.

(slang) An erect penis; a boner.

(slang) Dominoes or dice.

(slang) .

Synonyms

* (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

Adjective

(-)

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

(bon)

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

* 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],

One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.

* 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],

The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

* 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],

Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.

* 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],

Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.

To fertilize with bone.

* 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],

He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

To put whalebone into.

to bone stays

(Ash)

(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

So, did you bone her?

(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

* 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.

"You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".

To study.

bone up

* 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums

"I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."

To polish boots to a shiny finish.

* F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]

"...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"

Synonyms

* (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

Derived terms

* auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

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Etymology 2

Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

(bon)

(slang) To apprehend, steal.

* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],

“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”

* 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,

as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.

* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,

Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

Verb

(bon)

(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

(Knight)

* W. M. Buchanan

Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words ----

joint

English

(wikipedia joint)

Adjective

(-)

Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

The play was a joint production between the two companies.

* Shakespeare

A joint burden laid upon us all.

Derived terms

* joint effort * joint venture * joint-stock company * joint will

Noun

(en noun)

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.

The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

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

(anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

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.

A cut of meat.

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

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

(geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.

A restaurant, bar, nightclub or similar business.

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

(slang) (always with "the" ) prison

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

(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

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

Synonyms

* hinge, pivot * (marijuana cigarette) See also

Derived terms

* case the joint * dovetail joint * flexible joint * miter joint * jointed * out of joint * rigid joint * universal joint * control joint * butt joint

Verb

(en verb)

To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together

to joint' boards, a ' jointing plane

* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)

Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.

* '>citation

To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.

* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare)

Jointing their force 'gainst Caesar.

To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

* (rfdate) (Ray)

The fingers are jointed together for motion.

To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

* (rfdate) (Dryden)

He joints the neck.

* (rfdate) (Holland)

Quartering, jointing , seething, and roasting.

To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

the stones joint , neatly.

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