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Hinge vs Swivel - What's the difference?

hinge | swivel |

As an adverb hinge

is then (at that time).

As a noun swivel is

(mechanical) a piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.

As a verb swivel is

to swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.

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

    * ----

    swivel

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (wikipedia swivel) (en noun)
  • (mechanical) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel , seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
  • (military) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • (slang) strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; will
    • Bob ain't got no swivel .

    Derived terms

    * swivel bridge * swivel hook * swivel joint * swivel knife

    Verb

  • To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
  • * 2013 , Delme Parfitt in Wales Online'', ''Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win (3 November 2013)
    • As expected, Swansea began the game with some patient passing and the first chance fell to striker Michu in the fourth minute when he controlled a cross by Jonjo Shelvey and swivelled in the penalty box, only to fire over the bar.