Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 13 compound words that contain hinge. The most common are listed below. Open hinge in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- hinge jointA type of joint where motion is restricted to one plane as in the knee or elbow.
- stamp hingeA small gummed strip of folded glassine paper, used to mount stamps on an album page.
- door hingeThe hinge of a door.
- H hingeA hinge shaped like the capital letter H, used on flush-mounted doors.
- hinge jointsplural of hinge joint: A type of joint where motion is restricted to one plane as in the knee or elbow.
- living hingeA thin flexible hinge made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects.
- hinge-back tortoiseSynonym of hingeback: Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.
- jonbar hingeIn time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.
- delta hingeOn rotorcraft, a hinge with its axis parallel to the rotor plane of rotation, which permits the rotor blades to flap.
- alpha hingeOn rotorcraft, a hinge perpendicular to the plane of rotor rotation about which the blades trail or lag.
- off one's hingeAlternative form of off one's hinges: Unstable or irrational; crazy.
- butt hingeA kind of hinge used in hanging doors, lid, covers, etc.; so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the frame, stop molding, and casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called a butt.
- hinge of AfricaCameroon.
- flapping hingeA hinge in the rotor assembly of a helicopter that allows each blade to have some vertical movement
- hinge terminationThe abruptly truncated end of a knapped stone flake that did not reach across the entire face of the core stone; also applied to the site of the break on the core.
- hinge-backAlternative form of hingeback: Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.
- hinge-backsplural of hinge-back: Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.
- hinge terminationsplural of hinge termination: The abruptly truncated end of a knapped stone flake that did not reach across the entire face of the core stone; also applied to the site of the break on the core.
- hinge-back tortoisesplural of hinge-back tortoise: Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.
Compound words 13
- hingelessWithout hinges; nonhinged.
- hingementThe connection between the two halves of a bivalve's shell.
- hingeyOut of sorts, slightly unwell, ill.
- rehingeTo fit with new hinges.
- hingeableAble to be hinged.
- hingebackAny turtle of the genus Kinixys.
- hingelikeResembling or characteristic of a hinge.
- hingerA hinged fastener.
- hingewiseIn the manner of a hinge.
- midhingeA measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range.