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

  1. Hinge as a noun:

    A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

  2. Hinge as a noun:

    A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.

  3. Hinge as a noun:

    A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.

  4. 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."

  5. Hinge as a noun (statistics):

    The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

  6. Hinge as a noun:

    One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

  1. Hinge as a verb (transitive):

    To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

  2. Hinge as a verb (intransitive, with {{m, on):

    or }} To depend on something.

  3. 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."

  4. Hinge as a verb (obsolete):

    To bend.

  1. 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."

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. 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.

  4. 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."

  5. Joint as a noun:

    A cut of meat.

    Examples:

    "Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time."

  6. 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"

  7. Joint as a noun (geology):

    A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.

  8. 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."

  9. Joint as a noun (slang, with the definite article):

    prison

    Examples:

    "I'm just trying to stay out of the joint."

  10. Joint as a noun (slang):

    A marijuana cigarette.

    Examples:

    "After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint."

  1. 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"

  2. Joint as a verb (transitive):

    To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.

  3. Joint as a verb (transitive):

    To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

  4. 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.

  5. Joint as a verb (intransitive):

    To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

    Examples:

    "the stones joint, neatly."

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