What is the meaning of Hinge?

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.

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.

To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

(Should we move, merge or split this sense?) To depend on something.

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.

singular past subjunctive of hangen

genitive singular of hing

partitive singular of hing

illative singular of hing

first/third-person singular subjunctive II of hängen

first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen

Alternative form of henge

Source: wiktionary.org