Word Finder - hinged

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To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

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(with on or upon) To depend on something.

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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.

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The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.

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To bend.

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Affixed by a hinge, as a door.

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Extremely high on drugs.

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(of a postage stamp) Affixed with a stamp hinge

She took the tin from his hand and opened its hinged lid.

The shell of Clausilia is sinistral and its aperture is provided with a hinged plate.

Above each shelf, a hinged, Plexiglas cover kept dust off the shoes.

The principal faade of the temple is filled in one, two or three compartments with hinged doors, variously ornamented and folding outwards, sometimes in double folds.

The mould is in two, pieces hinged together; it is heated and the inner surface is rubbed over with finely powdered plumbago.

When the cage arrives at the surface, or rather the platform forming the working top above the mouth of the pit, it is received upon the keeps, a pair of hinged gratings which are kept in an inclined position over the pit-top by counterbalance weights, so that they are pushed aside to allow the cage to pass upwards, but fall back and receive it when the engine is reversed.

The blowing iron is constantly trundled, and the small lump of glass is squeezed and flattened into the shape of a foot, either between two slabs of wood hinged together, or by pressure against an upright board.

They are usually in two main pieces, a base and an upper part or collar of hinged sections.

In this figure the rod a, b, hinged at x, represents the wing.

You can place a photo on the other side of the tree in the hinged photo tray.

Entry is via a hinged steel lid in Windmill Wood.

He proposed to make the armature partake of the vibrations of the atmosphere either by converting it into a suitable vibrator or by controlling its vibrations by a stretched membrane of parchment armature had the form of a hinged lever one end, which pressed against the centre.

In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.

For an elementary account of the theory of arches, hinged or not, reference may be made to a joint by more than one-eighteenth of its depth.

The St Louis bridge is not hinged, but later bridges have been constructed with hinges at the springings and sometimes with hinges at the crown also.

The arch is formed by two lattice ribs hinged at the abutments.

A more common type is a bridge with two leaves or bascules, one hinged at each abutment.

The long connective of the single stamen is hinged to the short filament and has a shorter arm ending in a blunt process and a longer arm bearing a half-anther.

The trestles of this weir are, as usual, hinged to the apron, so that in flood-time they can be completely lowered into a recess across the apron by means of chains actuated by a winch, leaving the channel perfectly open for the discharge of floods and for the passage of vessels when the lock is submerged.

This fringe of silk is placed by the attendant between two hinged boards, and whilst held firmly in these boards (called book-boards) is pulled off the machine, and is called a " strip "; the part which has been hooked round the teeth is called the " face," and the other portion the " tail."

The gimbals or rings for suspension hinged at right-angles to one another, have been erroneously attributed to Cardan, the proper term being cardine, that is hinged or pivoted.

The under jaws are hinged on to the quadrate bones, which extend obliquely backwards, and are immovably wedged in between the squamosal and the lateral occipital wings.

A small knife hinged on a pointed backing of copper (31) seems to have been made for hair curlin.g and toilet purposes.

Practically this platen is, as it were, hinged at the off side, nearest the type bed, and its rise and fall is effected by the use of FIG.

The M`Dougall-Herreshoff, working on ores of over 30% of sulphur, requires no fuel; but in furnaces of the reverberatory type fuel must be used, as an excess of air enters through the slotted sides and the hinged doors which open and shut frequently to permit of the passage of the rakes.

An insect with wings thus hinged may, as far as steadiness of body is concerned, be not inaptly compared to a compass set upon gimbals, where the universality of motion in one direction ensures comparative fixedness in another."

The flexibility and elasticity of the kite formed by the natural wing are rendered necessary by the fact that the wing, as already stated, is practically hinged at its root and along its anterior margin, an arrangement which necessitates its several parts travelling at different degrees of speed, in proportion as they are removed from the axes of rotation.

The box, I, has a hinged bottom with a projecting click finger which, as the box de - scends, plays idly over the staves of a ladder arc. When the weight is removed from the platform, the counterbalance, E, causes the finger, G, to run back to its zero position, carrying with it the finger M, and causing the click finger of the box, I, to trip open the bottom of the box and let the penny fall out.

The result of the election was doubtful until a full count had been made, and eventually hinged upon Minnesota and California, normally Republican states.

The latter, however, was the more difficult of interpretation, and upon it, therefore, mainly hinged the system of divination with which the augurs were occupied.

Very usually (but not in the Onychophora = Peripatus) all the parapodia are plated with chitin secreted by the epidermis, and divided into a series of joints - giving the " arthropodous " or hinged character.

These frames were numbered consecutively 1 to 12, and hinged together as shown in fig.

The hammers are attached to small hinged flaps glued to a rail at the back of the keyboard.

During the eighteenth century hinged two piece molds were introduced, allowing the glassmaker to exert greater control over the shaping of the bottle.

There is also a hinged chrome grill included for occasional cooking.

The picture shown is for a door hinged on the left, opening toward you.

The hinged seats have misericords - miniature seats ' of mercy ' underneath.

Load Security 1. A bootlid, tailgate, loading door, hinged tailboard or dropside cannot be secured in the closed position.

What I didn't like was having a tailgate instead of two vertically hinged rear doors.

The original workshop was dominated by two hinged display boards bearing eagles with eight-foot wingspans.

A wire or fibre carrying the aluminium siphon cradle is stretched across this bridge piece, and on it is also mounted the small electromagnet, forming part of the " vibrator " arrangement with its hinged armature, to which one end of the stretched wire carrying the siphon is fastened.

To the opposite side of the frame an electromagnet I was fixed with its axis in line with the tube T, and between the end of the electromagnet and the membrane a hinged armature A was arranged in such a way that its motion could be controlled by the membrane.

The main girder is then virtually a continuous girder hinged at the points of contrary flexure, so that no ambiguity can arise as to the stresses.

In the Wurttemberg hinged arches a limit of stress of 110 tons per sq.

The frames hang vertically from the bottom of the overhead bridge, and rest against a sill at the bottom when the weir is in operation, the openings between the frames being closed below the water-level by rolling-up curtains or sliding panels, which are lowered or raised by a travelling winch carried by a small foot-bridge formed by hinged brackets at the p ack of the frames, and situated a little above the highest floodlevel.

The whole front is hinged for easy access and the front roof is removable for access to attic rooms.

What I did n't like was having a tailgate instead of two vertically hinged rear doors.

Hinged tailgate STRONG POINTS * Ideal size to tow behind a quad, or garden tractor.

Hinged Lids-If you have purchased a toy box, new or old, that has a lid on it, you will need to make sure that it has a safety latch preventing it from slamming down on a little one's head or hands.

This is particularly important if the bed you want to install has a ladder, stairs, or hinged door storage.