HINGED

Definitions: HINGED

HINGED

Adjective

1. Furnished with hinges.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Hinge

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HINGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: HINGED

Synonym by domain: hinging (building & civil engineering).

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Crosswords: HINGED

English words defined with "HINGED": Aldrovanda vesiculosa, Australian pitcher plant ♦ backgammon board, backhoe, bevel, bevel square, bifold, bivalve, bonnet, Butterfly valve ♦ casement, Cephalotus follicularis, Clack valve, click, compound lever, crampon, crampoon ♦ Dasypus novemcinctus, detent, Dionaea muscipula, diptych, dog, drop-leaf ♦ fallboard, fanlight, Flap valve, flip chart, Fly rail ♦ Grapple shot ♦ hair slide, Harpoon fork, hasp, Heelpost, hood, horizontal stabilizer, hunter, hunting watch ♦ jawbone, jowl ♦ lamellibranch, leaf, lower jaw, lower jawbone ♦ mandible, mandibula, Miserere ♦ nine-banded armadillo ♦ on-off switch ♦ padlock, pair of pliers, pair of tongs, pawl, peba, pelecypod, pliers, plyers ♦ Reversible lock, rudder ♦ sandwich board, sector, shutter, silent butler, slapstick, spoiler, step ladder, stepladder, submaxilla ♦ tailplane, Texas armadillo, tilt-top table, tip table, tip-top, tip-top table, toggle, toggle switch, toilet seat, tongs, transom, transom window, trap door, Trapdoor spider, trap-door spider, triptych, trunk lid ♦ Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytraps, visor, vizor ♦ waterwheel plant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HINGED": access door, automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough ♦ back digger, back shovel, back-acter excavator, backwater flap, bascule gate, Bengal shutter, Brewster prisms, Brewster's prisms, BULKING CELL, bull clam ♦ cactus grab, ceiling cloth, ceiling flat, ceiling piece, clack seat, clamshell shutters, CONTINUOUS-TOWEL ROLLER, CUTTER-INSPECTOR ♦ Demag cappel, Dodge crusher, drinking bowl, drop doors, DUMPING PIVOT ♦ endgate car, eyelids ♦ FABRICATOR, SHOWER DOORS AND PANELS, fall table, FILM LOADER, finger chute, flip-top, floating guide bank system, folding fin ♦ glass technologist, GLASS-WORKER, PRESSED OR BLOWN, grabbing crane, guarded switch ♦ hammer breaker, Hartley gravimeter, hinged apron, hinged apron pan, hinged bar, hinged deadlight, hinged inside deadlight, HYDRAULIC-JACK ADJUSTER ♦ jaw crusher ♦ latches, lifting beam, lifting eyes of the heavier moulding boxes, luffing cableway mast ♦ Mossfield loader ♦ NAME-PLATE STAMPER, non-return valve ♦ pen-point smoother, perfect frame, Petersen grab, pintle hook, pull shovel ♦ reciprocating flight conveyor, replacing switch, rudder pintle ♦ safety platform, scraper bucket, self-loading dumper, self-waterer, Sidney gate, sling beam, slot flap, slotted flap, Spirelmo smoke helmet, SPOUT TENDER II, steel puller, stream directing system ♦ tandem hydroseparator, teasing rods, three-hinged arch, towel-rolling-machine operator, two-hinged arch ♦ Walton's rising sill gate, Warwick safety device, wheel girdle, Whiting's gate, Whiting's self-acting waste weir gate, Williams' hinged-hammer crusher, Woodbury table. (references)

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Modern Usage: HINGED

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Her tongue appears to be hinged in the middle, but she may turn out all right. (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: HINGED

Domain	Title
Books	Activities for Reflect-It Hinged Mirror (reference) Hinged Dissections : Swinging and Twisting (reference) Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (reference) Price & Reference Guide to PHB Porcelain Hinged Boxes: 2001 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: HINGED

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Whalemen's harpoons. Fig. 1. Improved harpoon or toggle-iron now in use Fig. 2, 3. First form of toggle-iron made by Lewis Temple Fig. 4. One-flued harpoon with hinged toggle. Fig. 5. One-flued harpoon Fig. 6. Two-flued harpoon Fig. 7. Toggle-iron invented by Provincetown whaleman; not in use.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Figure 38. Hinged messenger, a model first proposed by the hydrographic laboratory at Copenhagen in 1914. The models shown are of a later date.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HINGED

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	South Korea	The administration made clear to the D.P.R.K. that the future of the Agreed Framework and of our bilateral relationship hinged on the satisfactory resolution of this issue and that a solution would require multiple access by the United States to the suspect site to remove U.S. suspicions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HINGED

"HINGED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.24% of the time. "HINGED" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	52.24%	70	39,981
Lexical Verb (past participle)	24.63%	33	60,273
Lexical Verb (past tense)	23.13%	31	62,296
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: HINGED

Expressions using "HINGED": hinged arch ♦ hinged deadlight ♦ hinged inside deadlight. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "HINGED": aft-hinged, double-hinged.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HINGED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
hinged	87	hinged ring	4
hinged box	35	door garage hinged side	4
porcelain hinged box	28	midwest porcelain hinged box	3
box collection hinged phb porcelain	15	hinged plastic vial	3
hinged plastic box	12	hinged earring	3
hinged bracket	9	door hinged shower	3
clip hinged money	9	door garage hinged	3
hinged knee braces	9	elevated hinged seat toilet	3
hinged lid container	8	hinged trinket box	3
hinged golf club	8	cons container hinged lid plastic	2
hinged knee brace	8	container hinged plastic	2
plastic hinged lid container	6	hinged handcuffs	2
container hinged	6	frame hinged	2
frame hinged picture	6	box hinged midwest	2
closure hinged steel	5	container hinged lacons lid	2
hinged lid	5	pooh hinged box	2
door hinged patio	5	derail hinged	2
hinged tonneau cover	4	midwest of cannon falls hinged box	2
hinged hoop earring	4	curtain hinged rod	2
cons hinged lid	4	hinged knee support	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HINGED

Language		Translations for "HINGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		取决于 (Hinging). (various references)

Czech		sklopný, opatřený závìsy. (various references)

Danish		hængslet. (various references)

Dutch		scharnierend. (various references)

Finnish		saranoitu, nivelikäs, kääntyvä. (various references)

French		articulé. (various references)

German		zusammenklappbar (collapsible, collapsibly, folding), drehbar (pivoted, revolvable, revolving, rotatable, rotating, swiveling). (various references)

Greek		αρθρωτός. (various references)

Italian		incernierato, articolato (articulate, articulated, articulates). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鹿追 , �"�戸 (hinged door), あう�"の呼吸 (regularTouhoku-line shinkansen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しかおい, からど (hinged door), あおり . (various references)

Korean		경첩을 다�". (various references)

Manx		jeushanit. (various references)

Pig Latin		ingedhay

Portuguese		tampa de combate (deadlight, hinged deadlight, hinged inside deadlight, port-lid), painel do transportador-elevador de alimentação do arejador,contendo chapas metálicas laterais retracteis (loading conveyor with hinged through sides for delivery into the blower), escoras móveis em aço montadas com recurso a charneiras e suportes de taipal nas paredes laterais dos veículos de colheita (removable hinged steel stakes, support posts and sockets for the side boards of trailers for roughage), alça de charneira (flap, hinged flash gate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sa šarkom. (various references)

Spanish		articulado (articles, articulate, collapsible, jointed). (various references)

Swedish		upphängd (suspended). (various references)

Turkish		oynaklı, menteşeli (swing out), mafsallı (articulated). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HINGED

Derivations
	Words ending with "HINGED": rehinged, unhinged, whinged. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HINGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chingada, hainfeld, hangd, hangyd, henge, Henggao, Henige, hiege, higd, Hignet, hilge, hindge, hined, hinet, Hingan, hinger, Hingle, Hingsen, Hongen, hunged, Ohlinger, thinged, whinged. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "HINGED"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "HINGED" (pronounced hi"njd)
5	h i" n j d	unhinged.
4	-i" n j d	cringed, infringed, singed.
3	-n j d	arranged, avenged, changed, deranged, estranged, exchanged, expunged, lunged, plunged, prearranged, ranged, rearranged, scrounged, shortchanged, sponged, unchallenged, unchanged.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: HINGED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nighed.
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n"
	-1 letter: deign, dinge, hinge, neigh.
	-2 letters: deni, dine, ding, gied, gien, hide, hied, hind, nide, nigh.
	-3 letters: den, die, dig, din, edh, end, eng, ged, gen, ghi, gid, gie, gin, hen, hid, hie, hin.
	-4 letters: de, ed, eh, en, he, hi, id, in, ne.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n"
	+1 letter: heading, hedging, heeding, herding, neighed, whinged.
	+2 letters: adhering, deashing, dinghies, headings, knighted, rehinged, shedding, shending, shingled, unhinged.
	+3 letters: anguished, beheading, beholding, benighted, chagrined, coheading, dehiscing, dehorning, dehorting, detaching, dithering, drenching, englished, garnished, hagridden, hardening, hedgingly, heralding, hindering, hoidening, hoydening, humdinger, inveighed, lightened, nightside, shielding, shredding, threading, tightened, unheeding, unsighted, wheedling.
	+4 letters: bedighting, beheadings, beknighted, brightened, chagrinned, chowdering, debauching, debouching, delighting, dethroning, diphosgene, dishelming, fingerhold, frightened, garnisheed, gesundheit, handseling, hardenings, headlining, headspring, heightened, highbinder, highhanded, highlander, honeyguide, humdingers, ingathered, languished, longhaired, neighbored, nightdress, nightshade, nightsides, rehandling, reshingled, scheduling, shanghaied, shuddering, springhead, subheading, thundering, unweighted.
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