hinge
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etcA jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
» The hinges are rusty.
Meaning
9 sensesA jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
Angel, Scharnier, Türband
пе́тляpétlja, петля́petljá, шарни́рšarnír
заві́саzavísa, шарні́рšarnír
A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
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 presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
(dialectal)To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
Examples
36 sentencesThe hinges are rusty.
The hinge is broken.
He hung the gate on hinges.
ruОн подвесил ворота на петли.
The gate was off its hinges.
ruДверь была сорвана с петель.
deDas Tor hing nicht mehr in den Angeln.
Ziri repaired the garage door hinge.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from ProtFrom Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), Dutch geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), Old English hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: hingesSynonyms
4 synonyms- a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other:flexible joint