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Meaning
Noun
●
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.
●
In 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.
Verb
●
To
attach
by, or
equip
with a hinge.
●
To
depend
on something.
●
In 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.
●
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.
Name
●
A surname.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
hinge
English
henge
Middle English (1100-1500)
Sourced from
Etym
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Rhymes
Ging
Tinge
Minge
Hinge
Ginge
Winge
Dinge
Binge
Singe
Stinge
Cringe
Fringe
Swinge
Twinge
Whinge
Unhinge
Syringe
Springe
Accinge
Impinge
Compinge
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