hinge

== English == === Etymology === From 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”), 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”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang. === Pronunciation === enPR: hĭnj, IPA(key): /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ɪndʒ === Noun === hinge (plural hinges) A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting 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 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. (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 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. Synonym: swing (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts. ==== Synonyms ==== (device upon which a door hangs): har (statistics): quartile ==== Meronyms ==== (device upon which a door hangs): pintel ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === hinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging or (uncommon) hingeing, simple past and past participle hinged) (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge. (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something. (transitive, archaeology) 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. (obsolete) To bend. 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. Synonym: swing ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === ehing, neigh == Dutch == === Verb === hinge (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of hangen == Estonian == === Noun === hinge genitive singular of hing partitive singular of hing illative singular of hing == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === hinge first/third-person singular subjunctive II of hängen == Middle Dutch == === Verb === hinge first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen == Middle English == === Noun === hinge alternative form of henge