put something out of joint
joint
verb[ T ]
uk /dʒɔɪnt/ us /dʒɔɪnt/
to cut meat into large pieces ready for cooking把（肉）切成大块（供烹制用）

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing animals & fish for cooking
bone
boneless
butchery
ceviche
chine
clean
debeard
devein
fleishig
Frenching
gut
hang
paillard
pluck
render
skin
skinless
spatchcock
tenderize
untrimmed

joint | American Dictionary

joint
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/dʒɔɪnt/

jointadjective[not gradable] (SHARED)

belonging to or shared between two or more people:
Do you and your husband have a joint bank account or separate accounts?
In court, the parents were awarded joint custody of their son (= the right to care for him was shared between them).
 joint venture
A joint venture is a business that gets its money from two or more partners.

jointly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈdʒɔɪnt·li/
Construction of the new high school will be jointly funded by the city and the state.
joint
noun[ C ]
us/dʒɔɪnt/

jointnoun[C] (BODY PART)

a place in the body where two bones meet:
Good running shoes are supposed to reduce the stress on the ankle, knee, and hip joints.

jointnoun[C] (CONNECTION)

a place where two things are joined together:
Metal joints in the bridge allow it to expand or contract with changes in air temperature.

jointnoun[C] (PLACE)

slang
a cheap restaurant:
a hamburger joint
slang
A joint is also a place where people go for some type of entertainment:
a jazz joint

joint | Business English

joint
adjective
uk /dʒɔɪnt/us
belonging to or shared between two or more people or organizations:
a joint bank account
The new Centre for Innovation was a joint effort between the private sector, the public sector, and several universities.

Examples of joint

joint
From the application's point of view, the requirement was to deliver joint values whenever requested by the feeder.
The joint width of zones 2, 3, and 4 is approximately 20% of the spot radius.
The remaining joints will be slowed proportional to the slow joint motion.
Our verb results confirm the joint roles of informativeness and limited resources hypothesized in the introduction.
Coefficients for the sawmill density variable are higher in the revenue efficiency models in both the joint timber-agriculture and agriculture-specific cases.
In the joint-space of a robot, there are bifurcation surfaces.
Such torques are transferred inwards towards the base of the robot resulting in increased joint torques.
Further, one would also predict that these regions ultimately receive input from deep receptors in the muscles and joints.
Again, although none of these have been measured in field settings, these joint conditions are unlikely to be met.
All joints need to be lifted in a vertical direction where joints 2 and 3 need an extra motion to activate their unlocking mechanisms.
These steering variables describe the motion from an external point of view rather than in terms of the internal joint angles.
These measures reflect the rate of caregiver utterances by style during each joint engagement state.
In the design of shadow system, an ultra-precision rotary optical encoder is mated with ultra-precision bearings mounted at the revolute joint pair.
The presence of the parent in the home seems to facilitate joint care-giving by spouses, as does the extra burden of care for another parent.
In this example, many points in joint dimensions are required, and the conventional sparse grid would have placed too few points there.
See all examples of joint
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withjoint

joint

These are words often used in combination with joint.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

affected joint
Clicking, grating, or locking may result from acute mechanical problems due to intra-articular bodies within the affected joint.
From
Wikipedia