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Whinge vs Hinge - What's the difference?

whinge | hinge |

As a verb whinge

is (uk|au|nz|irish) to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.

As a noun whinge

is (uk|au|nz|irish) a cry.

As an adverb hinge is

then (at that time).

whinge

English

Alternative forms

* winge (archaic) * quhynge (qualifier)

Verb

  • (UK, AU, NZ, Irish) To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
  • (UK, AU, NZ, Irish) To whine.
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  • * 2012 , John Lyons, The Australian, 1st Dec issue, Action stations as sea giants stay vigilant on the frontline
    • "You know the problem these days with young people? Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, AU, NZ, Irish) A cry.
  • (UK, AU, NZ, Irish) A complaint.

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    * See also

    External links

    * A relevant page from Understanding cultures through their key words , Anna Wierzbicka.

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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.
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