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[hinj] 
noun, verb, hinged, hing⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves. |
| 2. | a natural anatomical joint at which motion occurs around a transverse axis, as that of the knee or a bivalve shell. |
| 3. | that on which something is based or depends; pivotal consideration or factor. |
| 4. | Also called mount. Philately. a gummed sticker for affixing a stamp to a page of an album, so folded as to form a hinge, allowing the stamp to be raised to reveal the text beneath. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually fol. by on or upon): Everything hinges on his decision. |
–verb (used with object)
| 6. | to furnish with or attach by a hinge or hinges. |
| 7. | to attach as if by a hinge. |
| 8. | to make or consider as dependent upon; predicate: He hinged his action on future sales. |
Related forms:
hingeless, adjective
hingelike, adjective
Synonyms:
5. rest, swing, pivot, depend.
5. rest, swing, pivot, depend.
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hinge (hĭnj)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
v. tr.
To be contingent on a single factor; depend: This plan hinges on her approval. [Middle English henge; see konk- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Hinge
Hinge\, n. [OE. henge, heeng; akin to D. heng, LG. henge, Prov. E. hingle a small hinge; connected with hang, v., and Icel. hengja to hang. See Hang.]1. The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. --Milton. 2. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned. 3. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. [R.] When the moon is in the hinge at East. --Creech. Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad. --Milton. Hinge joint. (a) (Anat.) See Ginglymus. (b) (Mech.) Any joint resembling a hinge, by which two pieces are connected so as to permit relative turning in one plane. To be off the hinges, to be in a state of disorder or irregularity; to have lost proper adjustment. --Tillotson.Hinge
Hinge\, v. i. To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point. --I. Taylor
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Language Translation for : hinge
Spanish:
gozne, bisagra,
German:
die Türangel,
Japanese:
ちょうつがい
hinge
c.1300, "the axis of the earth;" 1380 as "movable joint of a gate or door," not found in O.E., cognate with M.Du. henghe "hook, handle," M.L.G. henge "hinge;" all derived from the root of the verb hang on notion of the thing from which a door hangs.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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hinge (hĭnj)
n.
A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
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Hinge
(Heb. tsir), that on which a door revolves. "Doors in the East turn rather on pivots than on what we term hinges. In Syria, and especially in the Hauran, there are many ancient doors, consisting of stone slabs with pivots carved out of the same piece inserted in sockets above and below, and fixed during the building of the house" (Prov. 26:14).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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