Hinge

Definitions

1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
2. A surname.
3. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
4. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
5. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
6. The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
7. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
8. A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
9. In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
10. To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
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Equivalents

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Afrikaansskarnier

العربيةالمفصلةمقبض

བོད་སྐད།བཀབ་སྦྱར

Bosanskiangelpantšarnirшарнир+ 1 more

Catalàfrontissa

Češtinapantzávěs

Cymraegcolfachcolyn

Danskhængsel

Ελληνικάμεντεσές

Esperantoĉarniro

Euskaragontza

Suomikäännekohtariippuasaranasaranoida+ 1 more

Gaeilgeinse

Gàidhligbann

Galegocoucegolfóngonzopalmelaporlón+ 2 more

עבריתמפרקציר

Hrvatskiangelpantšarnirшарнир+ 1 more

Magyarpánt

Հայերենծխնի

Bahasa Indonesiaengselsendi

Íslenskahjara

Italianocardinecerniera

日本語丁番蝶番

ქართულიანჯამა

ភាសាខ្មែរត្រចៀក

한국어경첩

Kurdîcivîharmenteşe

Latinacardo

ລາວບານພັບ

Македонскишарка

Bahasa Melayuengsel

Maltiċappetta

Nederlandsharhengselhoeksteenkeerpuntscharnier+ 2 more

Polskizawias

Portuguêscolocar dobradiças emdepender dedobradiçagonzopôr dobradiças em+ 2 more

Românăbalamașarnierățâțână

Русскийпетляшарнир

Shqipangërrçivimenteshë

Српскиangelpantšarnirшарнир+ 1 more

Svenskagångjärn

Kiswahilibawaba

ไทยบานพับ

Tagalogbisagra

Türkçementeşe

Українськазаві́сашарнір

Tiếng Việtbản lề

Examples

“The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay⟳ dead on the pavement.”

“The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move⟳ freely only in one direction owing to one end⟳ of the disc being upturned.”

“This argument was the hinge on which the question⟳ turned.”

“But let⟳ me say⟳, with all deference, that these positions do not appear⟳ to me to touch⟳ the hinge of the argument before us.”

“These grown-up children were at that hinge of life when parents must begin⟳ to shrink⟳ and fold⟳.”

“If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward⟳ from its native rest⟳; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers its Fate”

“In ruine reconcil'd: nor slept the winds / Within thir stony caves, but rush'd abroad / From the four hinges of the world, and fell”

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