Definitions for hinge

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hinge hinge

Spelling: [hinj]

IPA: /hɪndʒ/

Hinge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in hinge (eghin).

Definitions for hinge

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 with object)

1. to furnish with or attach by a hinge or hinges.
2. to attach as if by a hinge.
3. to make or consider as dependent upon; predicate:

verb (used without object)

1. to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually followed by on or upon):

Origin of hinge

1250-1300; Middle English henge; cognate with Low German heng(e), Middle Dutch henge hinge; akin to hang

Examples for hinge

The game is almost certain to hinge on how well Manning and his receivers fare against Sherman and company.

Race relations in Saint Louis could hinge on the outcome of this announcement.

The prison was still as the grave; not a step could I hear; not a bolt nor a hinge creaked.

If any part of the frame cracked, if the hinge creaked, I was a lost man!

Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.

Because there was nothing else to do, Grant unscrewed his helmet and let it fall back on its hinge.

A hinge creaked, but it was no louder than the rustle of silk against silk.

Much will hinge on what happens in 2014, in the coming crisis negotiations and then in the elections.

The other hinge still held, but it was bending with each mighty blow.

Whether the facts will be enough to avert disaster will hinge largely on whether Boehner can bring himself to accept them.