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Uncommonhinge
The correct spelling is hinge.
How to pronounce hinge
/ˈhɪndʒ/
nounIPA: /ˈhɪndʒ/
Say it like: Hin-je
The correct spelling is hinge. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. For example: "This argument was the hinge on which the question turned."
Usage Examples
“This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.”
“The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.”
Meanings
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.
- 5.The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
verb
- 1.To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- 2.(with on or upon) 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.
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