(a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
(v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
(v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
(v. t.) To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.
(v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.
(v. i.) To fall in pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was revealed that sucrose induces the appearance of negative disjointing pressure.
(2) The results of a series of benchmarking studies based upon artificial statistical pattern recognition tasks indicate that the proposed architecture performs significantly better than conventional feedforward classifier networks when the decision regions are disjoint.
(3) They fire and fire and then stop and if they’re going off to work – there’s no organisation, no leaders, no battle command, it’s all disjointed.” Which settlement was this in?
(4) Admittedly, Greece look a poor, disjointed side, but this was still a performance to bring back memories of South Korea's wild and eccentric run to the semi-finals, when they co‑hosted the tournament in 2002.
(5) Refugees are streaming into Slovenia , diverted overnight by the closure of Hungary’s border with Croatia, in the latest demonstration of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its borders.
(6) He indirectly signalled that Europe's attempts to get to grips with the crisis over the past 18 months had been disjointed, indecisive, and unproductive.
(7) A parallel is drawn with dreams, which consist of disjointed and distorted information encoded during waking hours.
(8) Three not completely disjoint abstract functions of the nervous system, namely pattern formation, pattern recognition and action, can be treated in a unified conceptual framework.
(9) The official booked two home players, Willian and Diego Costa, for simulation during a disjointed contest but opted against showing Cahill, already booked for a bad foul on Sone Aluko, a second yellow card after he tumbled between Tom Huddlestone and David Meyler apparently in search of a penalty.
(10) But marketing and communications experts in Oregon who have closely followed the standoff, which has caused a major backlash in the nearby town of Burns , said the militia’s PR tactics were disjointed and chaotic and were only breeding further resentment from the people they purport to be helping.
(11) The 33-year-old’s disjointed CV stands out as an extreme example of a growing section of Spanish society made up of those ousted from the workforce during the economic crisis and now struggling to land anything but precarious short-term contracts.
(12) This year, money has been spent and spirits were high at kick-off, yet a disjointed performance against Crystal Palace headed towards another situation where the new season curtain didn’t so much swish open as collapse unceremoniously as the game slunk into stoppage time all square.
(13) I have to assume that an outside entity was feeding her lines, as it is the only explanation for her shambolic, disjointed lunacy.
(14) United's disjointed evening was summed up near the end when the misfiring Danny Welbeck produced a shot that wobbled past Narit Taweekul's right post as the striker fell over.
(15) Its first section appears to take place on a cruise ship: various disjointed sequences follow one another; then we shift to a family-owned petrol station somewhere in France.
(16) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
(17) In her last major political appearance in the state, in January last year, Palin gave a rambling, disjointed address to a presidential cattle call organized by Iowa congressman Steve King.
(18) The disjoint pattern of activations in extravisual brain regions during selective- and divided-attention conditions also suggests that preceptual judgements involve different neural systems, depending on attentional strategies.
(19) The online experience of the green deal, which has been criticised for being disjointed, would shortly be overhauled and improved, he said.
(20) This attitude of trying to please everyone can result in a disjointed film experience to those not accustomed to the Bollywood staple of "masala" films.
Joint
Definition:
(n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
(n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
(n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.
(n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
(n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
(n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
(n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
(a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
(a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
(a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.
(a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
(v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
(v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
(v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
(v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
(v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(2) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(3) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(6) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(7) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(8) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(9) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(10) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(11) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
(12) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(13) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(14) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(15) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(16) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(17) Hypermobility and instability following injury and degenerative joint disease is poorly understood and often not recognized as the cause of the patients symptoms.
(18) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(19) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(20) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.