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Singe vs Hinge - What's the difference?

singe | hinge |

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)
  • To burn slightly.
  • * L'Estrange
    • I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * scorch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

    • References

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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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