Word Meanings - STRAIGHT-JOINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring

Additional info about word: STRAIGHT-JOINT

Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

Related words: (words related to STRAIGHT-JOINT)

• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CONTINUABLE
  Capable of being continued
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• CONTINUANT
  Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school