Hinge

Quick meaning: Hinge is a noun meaning A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

Meaning

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

More Meanings

1. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
2. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
3. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
4. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
5. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
6. A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
7. In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.

Example Sentences

This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

These grown-up children were at that hinge of life when parents must begin to shrink and fold.

The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.

But let me say, with all deference, that these positions do not appear to me to touch the hinge of the argument before us.

Word Forms

• hinges
• hinging
• hingeing
• hinged

Synonyms for hinge

Depending on context, synonyms include har, quartile, swing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include key, clevis, linchpin, pivot, swivel, bridge.

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