Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a hinge or joint.
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- adjective Without
hinges ;nonhinged .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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Only mad science would reverse engineer the human skull, discarding earstems for a hingeless frame that wraps the upper cranium.
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A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.
Father Goriot 2003
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No hingeless gates propped with sticks met the eye; no broken-down doors were to be seen on his barns; a master hand ruled the land, and his rule brought prosperity and happiness.
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth
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This hingeless condition of the gate, however, is, I must in fairness state, neither Jack's nor our fault.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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