strap hinge
- noun
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bisagra de cinta
- To install the new door, he carefully aligned the strap hinges with the pre-drilled holes.
- a strap hinge for a door
Examples
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The animals heard the rusty screech of the door's strap hinges and surged against the wooden feed trough.
Fiction book (2000) -
The wooden gate swung smoothly on its strap hinge, allowing easy access to the garden.
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The cabinet's strap hinges creaked as she opened the doors to reach for the dish.
Synonyms
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A piece of metal or plastic that connects a door to its frame and lets it turn
A metal piece with two long straps that lets a door or lid open and close
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'strap' (a long narrow strip) with 'hinge' (a joint): it denotes a hinge made from or consisting of straps/long narrow plates. This noun+noun compound follows regular compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically common in technical naming, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Strap hinge gets its name from the way it looks: two long, narrow pieces of metal, like straps, join to make a hinge so a door or lid can turn. The word strap points to the long metal piece and hinge is the moving part, so the name simply describes a hinge that lets something 'open' or 'close'.