Reefer vs Joint - What's the difference?
reefer | joint |
(nautical) Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
*1922 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Oxford 2002 (Selected Stories ), p. 85:
*:Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.
A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.
(slang, uncountable) marijuana.
*1982 , (Grandmaster Flash), :
*:Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer , I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between reefer and joint
is that reefer is a marijuana cigarette while joint is a marijuana cigarette.As nouns the difference between reefer and joint
is that reefer is someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman while joint is the point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.As an adjective joint is
done by two or more people or organisations working together.As a verb joint is
to unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.reefer
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* reefer jacketEtymology 2
Shortened form of (refrigerator).Etymology 3
Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare regional (etyl) (Central America).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (marijuana cigarette) See alsojoint
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.
