JOINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jointed mean? 

• JOINTED (adjective)
  The adjective JOINTED has 1 sense:

1. having joints or jointed segments

  Familiarity information: JOINTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having joints or jointed segments

Similar:

articulate; articulated (consisting of segments held together by joints)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

 Context examples 

A jointed tube 25-30 cm long that connects the stomach to the jejunum.

(Duodenum, NCI Thesaurus)

People with Marfan syndrome are often very tall, thin, and loose jointed.

(Marfan Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem that usually lives only one or two years.

(Cane, Food and Drug Administration)

A dimer consisting of two adjacent pyrimidines covalently jointed by a cyclobutane ring, inhibiting DNA replication.

(Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer, NCI Thesaurus)

His head and arms and legs were jointed upon his body, but he stood perfectly motionless, as if he could not stir at all.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

One day White Fang encountered a young wolf, gaunt and scrawny, loose- jointed with famine.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Why shrink, my honey-bird? Why so afeard, my sweet cinnamon?” exclaimed the other, a loose-jointed lanky youth with a dancing, roguish eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage (the name the hunters facetiously gave their midships sleeping quarters) to the cabin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Greaves and knee-pieces were also of leather backed by steel, and their gauntlets and shoes were of iron plates, craftily jointed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)