English Dictionary

hinge

/ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/

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.

The hinge on the door is broken.

意味（1）

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.

意味（2）

A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.

The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned.

意味（3）

A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.

意味（4）

A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.

This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

意味（5）

(statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.

意味（6）

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward from its native rest; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers its Fate

意味（7）

A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.