hinge

Etymology
From, from , compare 🇨🇬 in , Old English , from. Akin to Scots, 🇨🇬, Dutch , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Scots , 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at hang.

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.
 * 1)  The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
 * 2) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
 * 3) A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
 * 4) In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
 * 1)  The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
 * 2) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
 * 3) A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
 * 4) In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
 * 1) A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
 * 2) In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.

Meronyms

 * pintel

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skarnier
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Arabic: مُفَصَّلَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: بزاڭرة
 * North Levantine Arabic: عَزْقَة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: gontza
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 折頁, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hængsel
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ĉarniro
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: gonzo, porlón,, , golfón
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , Türband
 * Alemannic German: Ange
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στρόφιγξ, γίγγλυμος
 * Hindi:, , द्वारसन्धि
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: inse, tuisle
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:, ត្រចៀកទ្វារ
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ບານພັບ
 * Latin: cardō
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vyris
 * Macedonian: шарка
 * Malay: engsel
 * Maltese: ċappetta
 * Maori: kauhuri, kaurori
 * Middle English: henge, gemow, hengel, herre
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian: hengsel
 * Old English: heorra
 * Ottoman Turkish: منتشه, رزه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bann
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: bawaba
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bisagra
 * Thai: บานพับ
 * Tibetan: བཀབ་སྦྱར
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: заві́са, шарні́р
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:, colfach
 * White Hmong:
 * Zhuang:


 * Czech: klíčový okamžik
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
 * 2)   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.
 * 4)  To bend.
 * 5)  To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
 * 1)  To bend.
 * 2)  To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
 * 1)  To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Maori: kauhuri
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: pôr dobradiças em, colocar dobradiças em
 * Spanish:


 * Czech: záviset na
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: depender de
 * Spanish: