Thesaurus: hinge

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1. 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.
2. n. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
3. n. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
4. v. t. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
5. v. t. To bend.
6. v. i. 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; as, the argument hinges on this point.
7. n. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
8. n. a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
9. v. attach with a hinge
10. 1. 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. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton. 2. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned. 3. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. [R.] When the moon is in the hinge at East. Creech. Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad. Milton. Hinge joint. (a) (Anat.) See Ginglymus. (b) (Mech.) Any joint resembling a hinge, by which two pieces are connected so as to permit relative turning in one plane. -- To be off the hinges, to be in a state of disorder or irregularity; to have lost proper adjustment. Tillotson. 1. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges. 2. To bend. [Obs.] Shak. 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; as, the argument hinges on this point. I. Taylor
11. To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to dependchiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; --usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point. I.Taylor
12. v:35/n:65 n. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other n. a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend v. attach with a hinge