hinge

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Synonyms: tinge, whinge, singe, minge, ringe, winge, ginge, kinge, binge, inge, hine

Antonyms: tinge, whinge, singe, minge, ringe, winge, ginge, kinge, binge, inge, hine

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Noun

A [[joint]]ed or [[flexible]] device that allows the [[pivot]]ing of a [[door]] etc.
A naturally occurring [[joint]] resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the [[shell]] of a [[bivalve]].
A [[stamp hinge]], a [[fold]]ed and [[gum]]med [[paper]] [[rectangle]] for [[affix]]ing [[postage stamp]]s in an [[album]].
A [[principle]], or a point in time, on which [[subsequent]] [[reasoning]]s or [[event]]s depend.
{{lb|en|statistics}} The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
A [[movement]] that [[present]]s itself as [[rotation]] when an [[off-centre]] [[fixed]] [[point]] is [[take into account|taken into account]].
In [[polyamory]], a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
{{lb|en|dialectal}} To be in [[poor]] [[health]]; to be [[out of sorts]].

{{lb|en|transitive}} To [[attach]] by, or [[equip]] with a hinge.
{{rfm-sense|en|section=hinge, hinge on}} {{lb|en|intransitive|with {{m|en|on}} or {{m|en|upon}}}} To [[depend]] on something.
{{lb|en|transitive|archaeology}} The breaking off of the [[distal]] end of a [[knapp]]ed 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.
{{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[bend#Verb|bend]].
{{cln|en|contranyms}} To [[move]] or already be [[position]]ed in such a fashion that it [[present]]s itself as [[rotation]] when an [[off-centre]] [[fixed]] [[point]] is [[take into account|taken into account]].

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