"hinge" Definition

Definitions for the word "hinge" from multiple English dictionaries.

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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To bend.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 movable joint on which a door, lid, etc., turns or swings. 2 principle on which all depends. v. (-ging) 1 (foll. By on) depend (on a principle, an event, etc.). 2 attach or be attached by a hinge. [related to *hang]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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