Dinge vs Hinge - What's the difference?
dinge | hinge |
Dinginess.
A black person.
*1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010 p. 3:
*:‘A dinge ,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 46:
*:‘You made a hit with the dinge ,’ Bob was saying.
To strike, scourge, or beat.
To flog, as in penance
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
* Creech
* Milton
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
To depend on something.
archaeology The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
(obsolete) To bend.
As a noun dinge
is dinginess.As a verb dinge
is to strike, scourge, or beat.As an adverb hinge is
then (at that time).dinge
English
Etymology 1
From (dingy).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*dinge queenEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Derived terms
* dinged-upAnagrams
* ----hinge
English
(wikipedia hinge)Noun
(en noun)- This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
- When the moon is in the hinge at East.
- Nor slept the winds / Within their stony caves, but rush'd abroad / From the four hinges of the world.
Synonyms
* (device upon which a door hangs) har * (statistics) quartileDerived terms
* hinge line, hingeline * hinge termination * lower hinge * midhinge * rehinge * upper hinge * hingeableVerb
- The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
- (Shakespeare)