The difference between Hinge and Joint
When used as nouns, hinge means a jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc, whereas joint means the point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
When used as verbs, hinge means to attach by, or equip with a hinge, whereas joint means to unite by a joint or joints.
Joint is also adjective with the meaning: done by two or more people or organisations working together.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hinge and Joint
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Hinge as a noun:
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
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Hinge as a noun:
A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
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Hinge as a noun:
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
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Hinge as a noun:
A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
Examples:
"This argument was the hinge on which the question turned."
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Hinge as a noun (statistics):
The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
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Hinge as a noun:
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
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Hinge as a verb (transitive):
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
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Hinge as a verb (intransitive, with {{m, on):
or }} To depend on something.
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Hinge as a verb (transitive, 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.
Examples:
"The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core."
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Hinge as a verb (obsolete):
To bend.
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Joint as an adjective:
Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
Examples:
"The play was a joint production between the two companies."
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Joint as a noun:
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
Examples:
"This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform."
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Joint as a noun:
The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
Examples:
"The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes."
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Joint as a noun (anatomy):
Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
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Joint as a noun:
The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
Examples:
"The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong."
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Joint as a noun:
A cut of meat.
Examples:
"Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time."
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Joint as a noun:
The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
Examples:
"a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg"
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Joint as a noun (geology):
A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
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Joint as a noun (chiefly, US, _, slang, somewhat, _, pejorative):
A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
Examples:
"It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in."
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Joint as a noun (slang, with the definite article):
prison
Examples:
"I'm just trying to stay out of the joint."
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Joint as a noun (slang):
A marijuana cigarette.
Examples:
"After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint."
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Joint as a verb (transitive):
To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
Examples:
"to joint boards, a jointing plane"
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Joint as a verb (transitive):
To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
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Joint as a verb (transitive):
To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
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Joint as a verb (transitive):
To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
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Joint as a verb (intransitive):
To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
Examples:
"the stones joint, neatly."