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Tinge vs Hinge - What's the difference?

tinge | hinge |

In transitive terms the difference between tinge and hinge

is that tinge is to imbue or impregnate 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.

tinge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
  • The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
  • Verb

  • To add a small amount of color; to tint.
  • To imbue or impregnate.
  • * Addison
  • His virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance.

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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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