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n. A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.

n. A similar structure or part, such as one that enables the valves of a bivalve mollusk to open and close.

n. A small folded paper rectangle gummed on one side, used especially to fasten stamps in an album.

n. A point or circumstance on which subsequent events depend.

v. To attach by or equip with or as if with hinges or a hinge.

v. To consider or make (something) dependent on something else; predicate: "convenient and misleading fictions for hinging an argument” ( Stephen Jay Gould).

verb-intransitive. To be contingent on a single factor; depend: This plan hinges on her approval.

n. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.

n. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.

n. A point in time, on which subsequent events depend.

n. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

v. To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

v. To depend on something.

v. 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.

n. 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.

n. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule.

n. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

v. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.

v. To bend.

verb-intransitive. 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.

n. An artificial movable joint; a device for joining two pieces in such a manner that one may be turned upon the other; the articulation of a door, gate, shutter, lid, etc., to its support, or of two equally movable parts, as of a fire-screen, to each other.

n. A natural movable joint; an anatomical articulation turning in a single plane, as that of the knee or of a bivalve shell. See hinge-joint, and cut under bivalve.

n. Figuratively, that on which anything depends or turns; a cardinal or controlling principle, rule, or point.

n. One of the cardinal points, north, south, east, or west.

n. In entomology, the cardo or basal part of the maxilla. See cut under Insecta.

To furnish with hinges; join by means of hinges, literally or figuratively.

To bend the hinge or hinges of.

Figuratively, to cause to depend: as, to hinge one's acceptance upon some future event.

To stand, depend, or turn on or as if on a hinge: chiefly figurative.

n. In botany, the flexible lamella of the guard-cells of a stoma which renders them mobile.

v. attach with a hinge

n. a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend

n. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other

"Murkowski, whose hopes for another term hinge on her winning a write-in effort, undisputedly held 89.8 percent of that vote with 45,132 ballots counted so far."

hinged    hinges    hinging   

attach    circumstance   

center    crisis    nasal hinge    butt-and-strap hinge    gooseneck hinge    cross-tail hinge    strap-hinge    frontonasal hinge    parliament hinge    butt-hinge   

hinge termination    midhinge    lower hinge    upper hinge    rehinge   

bend    turn    depend    quartile   

Inge    binge    cringe    fringe    impinge    infringe    minge    singe    syringe    tinge   

latch    bolt    shutter    padlock    fitting    lever    lock    screw    knocker    knob