Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 2 compound words that contain hinges. The most common are listed below. Open hinges in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- door hingesplural of door hinge: The hinge of a door.
- stamp hingesplural of stamp hinge: A small gummed strip of folded glassine paper, used to mount stamps on an album page.
- off one's hingesUnstable or irrational; crazy.
- off the hingesIn a state of disorder or irregularity.
- alpha hingesplural of alpha hinge: On rotorcraft, a hinge perpendicular to the plane of rotor rotation about which the blades trail or lag.
- butt hingesplural of butt hinge: A 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 …
- delta hingesplural of delta hinge: On rotorcraft, a hinge with its axis parallel to the rotor plane of rotation, which permits the rotor blades to flap.
- H hingesplural of H hinge: A hinge shaped like the capital letter H, used on flush-mounted doors.
- living hingesplural of living hinge: A thin flexible hinge made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects.
- flapping hingesplural of flapping hinge: A hinge in the rotor assembly of a helicopter that allows each blade to have some vertical movement
- a creaking door hangs long on its hingesAlternative form of a creaking door hangs longest: Someone who is apparently in poor health may well outlive the ostensibly-stronger.
- jonbar hingesplural of jonbar hinge: In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.
Compound words 2
- doorhingesplural of doorhinge: The hinge of a door.
- midhingesplural of midhinge: A 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.