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Definition of 'hinge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hinge
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, lid, or other attached part turns,swings, or moves.

2.  hinge
an anatomical joint at which motion occurs around a transverse axis, as that of the knee.

3.  hinge
that on which something is based or depends; pivotal consideration or factor.

4.  hinge
a gummed sticker, folded to form a hinge, for affixing a stamp to a page of an album.

5. (v.i.) hinge
to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usu. fol. by on or upon):
Everything hinges on her decision.

6. (v.t.) hinge
to attach by or as if by a hinge or hinges.

7.  hinge
to make or consider as dependent on:
He hinged his action on future sales.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME henge; akin to LG heng(e), MD henge hinge, and to hang)

Definition of 'hinge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hinge, flexible joint
a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other

2. (verb) hinge
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
"his absence is the hinge of our plan"

3. (verb) hinge
attach with a hinge

Definition of 'hinge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) hinge
pieces of metal that attach a door, lid, etc. to sth
The hinges creaked as the door opened.

Definition of 'hinge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) hinge
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

2. (noun) hinge
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. (noun) hinge
one of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south

4. (verb) hinge
to attach by, or furnish with, hinges

5. (verb) hinge
to bend

6. (verb) hinge
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

Translation of 'hinge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the joint by means of which a door is fastened to a door-frame, a lid is fastened to a box etc and on which the door, lid etc turns when it opens or closes I must oil the hinges.
Afrikaans: skarnier	Arabic: مِفْصَلَه	Bulgarian: панта
Brazilian: dobradiça	Czech: pant, stěžej	German: die Türangel
Danish: hængsel	Greek: αρμός, μεντεσές	Spanish: gozne, bisagra
Estonian: (ukse)hing	Farsi: لولا	Finnish: sarana
French: gond	Hebrew: צִיר	Hindi: कब्जा
Croatian: šarka, stožer, zglob	Hungarian: zsanér	Indonesian: engsel
Icelandic: hjör, löm	Italian: cardine	Japanese: ちょうつがい
Korean: 경첩	Lithuanian: vyris	Latvian: vira; eņģe
Malay: engsel	Dutch: scharnier	Norwegian: hengsel
Polish: zawias	Persian: لولا	Pashto: چپراس
Portuguese: dobradiça	Romanian: balama	Russian: петля, крепление
Slovak: pánt	Slovenian: tečaj	Serbian: šarka
Swedish: gångjärn	Thai: บานพับ	Turkish: menteşe, reze
Taiwanese: 鉸鏈	Ukrainian: шарнір	Urdu: قبضہ، جوڑ
Vietnamese: bản lề	Chinese: 铰链
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