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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hinge /hɪndʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., hinged, hing•ing. n. [countable] - Building, Zoologya jointed device or flexible piece on which a door or gate turns or moves.
v. [~ + on/upon + object] - to be dependent on;
depend on:Everything hinges on her decision.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hinge (hinj),USA pronunciation n., v., hinged, hing•ing. n. - Building, Zoologya jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- Anatomya natural anatomical joint at which motion occurs around a transverse axis, as that of the knee or a bivalve shell.
- that on which something is based or depends;
pivotal consideration or factor. - StampsAlso called mount. [Philately.]a gummed sticker for affixing a stamp to a page of an album, so folded as to form a hinge, allowing the stamp to be raised to reveal the text beneath.
v.i. - to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually fol. by on or upon):Everything hinges on his decision.
v.t. - Buildingto furnish with or attach by a hinge or hinges.
- to attach as if by a hinge.
- to make or consider as dependent upon;
predicate:He hinged his action on future sales.
- 1250–1300; Middle English henge; cognate with Low German heng(e), Middle Dutch henge hinge; akin to hang
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rest, swing, pivot, depend.
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