A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
A similar structure or part, such as one that enables the valves of a bivalve mollusk to open and close.
A small folded paper rectangle gummed on one side, used especially to fasten stamps in an album.
A point or circumstance on which subsequent events depend.
v.
hinged, hing·ing, hing·es
v.
tr.
To attach by or equip with or as if with hinges or a hinge.
To consider or make (something) dependent on something else; predicate: "convenient and misleading fictions for hinging an argument"(Stephen Jay Gould).
v.
intr.
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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