hinge
/ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To depend on something.
- 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. · The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
He/she/it hinges · Past hinged · Past participle hinged · -ing form hinging
Verb forms
- Base form
- hinge
- He/she/it
- hinges
- Past
- hinged
- Past participle
- hinged
- -ing form
- hinging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point.
Is there no circumstance on which this whole case appears to hinge?
At one side of this was a squat, brass-bound wooden box, the lid of which was hinged upwards, with this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the lock.
He’s simply the hinge that the whole team turns on.
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