Joint vs Single - What's the difference?
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Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
* Shakespeare
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
(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.
A cut of meat.
The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
(geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
A restaurant, bar, nightclub or similar business.
(slang) (always with "the" ) prison
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.
To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
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To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
* (rfdate) (Ray)
To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* (rfdate) (Holland)
To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
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Designed for the use of only one.
Performed by one person, or one on each side.
* Milton
Not married, and also not dating.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XI:
* Shakespeare
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
* I. Watts
(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track.
One who is not married.
(cricket) A score of one run.
(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
(dominoes) A tile that has different values (i.e., number of pips) in each end.
A bill valued at $1.
(UK) A one-way ticket.
(Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
(tennis, chiefly, in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out' or to '''single''' (something) ' out .
* Francis Bacon
(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
(agriculture) To thin out.
* 1913 ,
(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
* W. S. Clark
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
* Hooker
To take alone, or one by one.
* Hooker
As nouns the difference between joint and single
is that joint is marijuana cigarette; joint while single is single (45rpm vinyl record).joint
English
(wikipedia joint)Adjective
(-)- The play was a joint production between the two companies.
- A joint burden laid upon us all.
Derived terms
* joint effort * joint venture * joint-stock company * joint willNoun
(en noun)- This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.
- The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.
- The dovetail joint , while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.
- Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.
- a joint''' of cane or of a grass stem; a '''joint of the leg
- It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
- I'm just trying to stay out of the joint .
- After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint .
Synonyms
* hinge, pivot * (marijuana cigarette) See alsoDerived terms
* case the joint * dovetail joint * flexible joint * miter joint * jointed * out of joint * rigid joint * universal joint * control joint * butt jointVerb
(en verb)- to joint' boards, a ' jointing plane
- Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.
- Jointing their force 'gainst Caesar.
- The fingers are jointed together for motion.
- He joints the neck.
- Quartering, jointing , seething, and roasting.
- the stones joint , neatly.
References
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- a single combat
- These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
- Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
- Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
- Therefore, when thyne eye is single : then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?
- I speak it with a single heart.
- Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
- He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
Synonyms
* (not accompanied by anything else) lone, sole * (not divided in parts) unbroken, undivided, uniform * (not married) unmarriedAntonyms
* (single) divorced, married, widowedDerived terms
* single-acting * single bed * single-blind/single blind * single bond * single-cell * single-celled * single-click * single combat * single cream * single crochet * single cross * single crystal * single currency * single data rate * single-decker * singledom * single-elimination * single entry * single-eyed * single file * single flower * single-fold * single-foot * single grave * single-handed * single-handedly * single-hearted * singlehood * single-horse * single-issue * single leaf * single-line * single knot * single malt * single market * single-minded * single money * single mother * singleness * single-o * single option * single parent * single-phase * single-phasing * singleplayer * single-ply roof * single pneumonia * single-point * single-point urban interchange * single point of failure * single precision * single prop * single quote * singler * single scull * single-sex * single shell * single shot * single-shot * single sourcing * single-space * single-spaced * single-spacing * single standard * single star system * singlestick * single stitch * single supplement * singlet * single tax * singleton * single track * single union agreement * single-valued * single-wide * single-wordNoun
(en noun)- The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
- He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- I don't have any singles , so you'll have to make change.
Antonyms
* album * (one who is not married) marriedDerived terms
* cassingle * lead single * singles bar * singles charts * split single * CD singleSee also
* baseball * cricketVerb
(singl)- Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
- Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
- dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark
- Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
- Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
- Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single , or to be single-footed.
- an agent singling itself from consorts
- men commendable when they are singled