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Lever vs Hinge - What's the difference?

lever | hinge |

In transitive terms the difference between lever and hinge

is that lever is to move with a lever while hinge is 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.

In obsolete terms the difference between lever and hinge

is that lever is rather while hinge is to bend.

As an adverb lever

is rather.

lever

English

(wikipedia lever)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) leveor, ; see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mechanics)   A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum ), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
  • # Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
  • A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
  • (mechanics)   A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers , with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}
  • (mechanics)   An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

    • Verb

  • To move with a .
    • ''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
  • (figuratively) To use, operate like a .
  • To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
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    • Derived terms

    * leverage * compound lever * lever escapement * lever jack * lever watch * universal lever

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) comparative of of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Rather.
  • * 1530 , , The Four PP
    • for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye
  • * 1537 ,
    • Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.
  • * 1590 ,
    • For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lever.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A levee.
  • * 1742 , Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters , II.191:
    • We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér .
  • * 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:
    • Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

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    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)

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