Singe vs Hinge - What's the difference?
singe | hinge |
To burn slightly.
* L'Estrange
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between singe and hinge
is that singe is to remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame 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.singe
English
Verb
(d)- I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.
Synonyms
* scorchReferences
* ----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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