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Hinge vs Kinge - What's the difference?

hinge | kinge |

As nouns the difference between hinge and kinge

is that hinge is a jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel while kinge is obsolete spelling of king.

As a verb hinge

is to attach by, or equip with a hinge.

hinge

English

(wikipedia hinge)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
  • (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
  • When the moon is in the hinge at East.
  • * Milton
  • 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) quartile

    Derived terms

    * hinge line, hingeline * hinge termination * lower hinge * midhinge * rehinge * upper hinge * hingeable

    Verb

  • 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.
  • The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
  • (obsolete) To bend.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

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    kinge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1474, author=Caxton, title=Game and Playe of the Chesse, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And than we wyll begynne at the pawne whiche standeth to fore the rooke on the right side of the kinge for as moche as this pawne apperteyneth to serue the vicaire or lieutenant of the kynge and other officers vnder hym of necessaryes of vitayll/ }} ----