Hinge vs Sharpener - What's the difference?
hinge | sharpener |
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 device for making things sharp.
That which makes something sharp.
* (Hannah More), The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
* 1872 , Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts
As an adverb hinge
is then (at that time).As a noun sharpener is
a device for making things sharp.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.
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* ----sharpener
English
Noun
(wikipedia sharpener) (en noun)- There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.
- “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits.
- The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.