linchpin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle or shaft, so as to secure a wheel or shaft-mounted device.

   “In ij camellis ferri vocatis lynspins emptis pro carectis iiijᵈ.”

2. isim A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.

   “What is difficult to appreciate, however, is the discrepancy between his statement to the 'Manchester Guardian' correspondent and his known abhorance for party politics, which is the lynchpin of modern democracy.”

3. fiil To adopt as, or serve as, a central cohesive source of stability and security.

   “The poems turn fear of individual death into an audit of the costs of an aristocratic status quo which is linchpinned by a monarchy indulging in paradigms of social redress that have become cosmetic, opportunities for self-display rather than genuine justice.”