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Definition of Joinings
1. joining [n] - See also: joining
Lexicographical Neighbors of Joinings
Literary usage of Joinings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Compounding of English Words: When and why Joining Or Separation is by Francis Horace Teall (1891)
"NEEDLESS joinings OF ADJECTIVE AND NOUN. IN determining a method to secure
approximate consistency of compounding, the fact that very many English readers ..."
2. The Compounding of English Words: When and why Joining Or Separation is by Francis Horace Teall (1891)
"NEEDLESS joinings OP ADJECTIVE ASI> ... many joinings which are utterly needless,
if not actually improper, owe their existence to a certain specious ..."
3. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"... and edges of the sheets of copper in boilers of the first class : they also
give additional security to the joinings, and secure cocks from leaking. ..."
4. The Elements of Tachygraphy ...: Rewritten and Reengraved by David Philip Lindsley (1890)
"... CONSONANT joinings. 52. WHEN the consonant letters join without an intermediate
vocal, the joining is directed by the well-known principles of geometric ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1843)
"... excepting through the tubes /, and the ring k. w is an arm for supporting the
top of the condenser, which may be fixed in joinings. Fig. ..."
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