linchpin 뜻. 바퀴멈추개 (비녀장), 체계나 집단의 핵심 인물(중핵).

Linchpin 린치핀.

less commonly lynchpin

1.     바퀴 멈추개. 바퀴의 비녀장 .비녀장(수레의 굴레머리에서 내리질러 바퀴가 벗어져 나가지 않게 하는 쇠)

: a locking pin inserted crosswise (as through the end of an axle or shaft)

 

2. (하나의 통일체로서 기능하는) 부분,요소들을 하나로 묶어주는 것

: one that serves to hold together parts or elements that exist or function as a unit

the linchpin in the defense's case (방어에서 부분요소들을 하나로 묶어주는 것)

 

체계나 집단에서 가장 중요한 사람이나 구성요소. 부분요소들이나 구성원들이 하나의 목표를 향해 움직일 수 있도록 해주는 사람.

the most important member of a group or part of a system, that holds together the other members or parts or makes it possible for them to operate as intended:

Woodford is the linchpin of the British athletics team.

 

 

(바퀴를 멈추게 하는 것. 바퀴 멈추개)

 

 

Did you know?

In his 1857 novel, Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes describes the "cowardly blackguard custom" of "taking the linch-pins out of the farmers' and bagmens' gigs at the fairs." The linchpin in question held the wheel on the gig and removing it made it likely that the wheel would come off as the vehicle moved. Such a pin was called a lynis in Old English; Middle English speakers added pin to form lynspin. By the early 20th century, English speakers were using linchpin for anything as critical to a complex situation as a linchpin is to a wagon, as when Winston Churchill, in 1930, wrote of Canada and the role it played in the relationship between Great Britain and the United States, that "no state, no country, no band of men can more truly be described as the linchpin of peace and world progress."

 

 

Examples of linchpin in a Sentence

 

This witness is the linchpin of the defense's case.

 

Recent Examples on the Web

 

The call was a linchpin of Microsoft’s legal strategy to overcome immense government scrutiny of the largest consumer tech deal in decades.

—David McCabe, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023

 

As of 2019, more than 1,600 of these tribal linchpins worked in the United States, according to the IHS.

—Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023

 

One of those linchpins is DJ Jerry, who came up in the 2010s hosting local mixtapes.

—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2023

 

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Word History

 

Etymology

Middle English lynspin, from lyns linchpin (from Old English lynis) + pin; akin to Middle High German luns linchpin

 

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1