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jointed

adj
/ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪd/

Etymology

From joint (“noun”) + -ed.

  1. derived from iūnctus
  2. derived from joint — “joint of the body”
  3. inherited from joynt
  4. suffixed as jointed — “joint + ed”

Definitions

  1. Having joints.

    • Jointed track will be replaced, with standard ballast instead of shingle beneath, to stabilise the rails and improve the notoriously dreadful ride quality.

  2. Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock.

    • When I opened the door the place was jointed, packed with English players.
    • Looking at the shots of an absolutely jointed Dalymount Park, the feverish atmosphere still palpable, you could see why for my father's generation the Phibsboro ground would always be the spiritual home of Irish football.

  3. simple past and past participle of joint

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at jointed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01jointed02chockablock03jam-packed04jam-pack05pack06prepared07prepare08forearm09elbow

A definitional loop anchored at jointed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at jointed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA