hinge

Meaning of hinge

noun
  1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
  2. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
  3. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  4. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
    This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
  5. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  6. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
verb
  1. To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. (with on or upon) To depend on something.
  3. The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
    The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
  4. To bend.

Information about hinge

  • The plural form of hinge is: hinges.
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Hyphenation of hinge

hinge

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • hinge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

hinge synonyms

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Translation of hinge

Anagrams of hinge

ehing, Henig, neigh

Words that rhyme with hinge

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