Hinge vs Digger - What's the difference?
hinge | digger |
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.
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
A tool for digging.
* 2009 , Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever ,
A spade (playing card).
One who digs.
* 1997 , Barbara J. Wrede, Civilizing Your Puppy ,
* 2005 , Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems ,
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
* 1853 , (editor), Household Words , Volume 21,
(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment .
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
* 1998 , Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre ,
* 2002 , Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War ,
* 2004 , Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape ,
As an adverb hinge
is then (at that time).As a noun digger is
a soldier from australia or new zealand.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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Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)page 143,
- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn?t dug any holes for a long, long time.
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- You?ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger' with water from a hose, and that hasn?t worked.This step will discourage 99 percent of the ' diggers .
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- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that?s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
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- A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” ? came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
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- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
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- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
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- Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger , to honour their fellow workers.