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Definition hinge
Etymology
From Middle English henge, from Old English *henge (“hinge”), compare Old English henge- in hengeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English hengen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *hangaz, *hangiz (“hanging”, adjective). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Dutch heng (“door handle”), Low German henge (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), geheng (“hinge”), hengsel (“hinge”), German dialectal hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Old English h?n (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
Noun
hinge (plural hinges)
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Verb
hinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging or hingeing, simple past and past participle hinged)
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
- (transitive, archaeology) 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.
- (obsolete) To bend.
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