Hinge vs Bushing - What's the difference?
hinge | bushing |
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.
(mechanical engineering) A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
(mechanical engineering) An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
(mechanical engineering) A threaded bushing, is a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
(electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
As nouns the difference between hinge and bushing
is that hinge is a jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc see also pintel while bushing is (mechanical engineering) a type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.As a verb hinge
is to attach by, or equip with a hinge.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.
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