hinge
/ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/ verbo C2En español: abisagrar, enquiciar, engoznar, depender de
- 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 · Pasado hinged · Participio pasado hinged · Forma en -ing hinging
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- hinge
- He/she/it
- hinges
- Pasado
- hinged
- Participio pasado
- hinged
- Forma en -ing
- hinging
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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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