| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Furnished with hinges.[Websters]
2. Being tongued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being jointed, seamed or articular. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being collapsible or foldable.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hinge.[Websters]
2. To be tongued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have booted or based. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be ribboned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have linked or spliced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be spindled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have bladdered or snubbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be cored or hearted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have bellowed or fanned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be jointed or seamed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb hinge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hinge) | 1. Attach with a hinge.[Wordnet]. 2. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.[Websters]. 3. To bend.[Websters]. 4. To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: hinging, hinged, hinges, hinger, hingers, hingingly and hingedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HINGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hinge
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] hinj. . | 2: [Noun] The hook or joint on which a door or gate turns. The gate self-opened wide On golden hinges turning.. | 3: [Noun] That on which any thing depends or turns; a governing principle, rule or point. This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.. | 4: [Noun] A cardinal point; as east, west, north or south. [Little used.] To be off the hinges, is to be in a state of disorder or irregularity.. | 5: [Verb] To furnish with hinges.. | 6: [Verb] To bend. [Little used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | A joint or connection that lets a piece swing back and forth. (references) | ||
| Bible | 1: Both ancient Egyptian and modern Oriental doors were and are hung by means of pivots turning in sockets on both the upper and lower sides. (1 Kings 7:50) In Syria, and especially the Hauran, there are many ancient doors consisting of stone slabs with pivots carved out of the same piece, inserted in sockets above and below, and fixed during the building of the house. The allusion in (Proverbs 26:14) is thus clearly explained. (references) | 2: Hinge (Heb. tsir), that on which a door revolves. "Doors in the East turn rather on pivots than on what we term hinges. In Syria, and especially in the Hauran, there are many ancient doors, consisting of stone slabs with pivots carved out of the same piece inserted in sockets above and below, and fixed during the building of the house" (Prov. 26:14). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Business | A device generally consisting of two metal plates having loops formed along one edge of each to engage and rotate about a common pivot rod or "pin"; used to suspend a swinging door or window in its frame. (references) | ||
| Fisheries | The joint of the shell of a bivalve mollusk. (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: Hinge is geographically located in Denmark. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 56.266667 degrees North latitude and 9.516667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Hinge is geographically located in Turkey. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 39.133333 degrees North latitude and 38.666667 degrees East longitude. (references) | |
| Mining | The locus of maximum curvature or bending in a folded surface, usually a line. Syn: flexure. (references) | ||
| Technology | A narrow strip of muslin or paper, attached with adhesive along the line dividing the two halves of an endpaper to reinforce the flexible joint along which the body of a book is attached to the cover. In volumes lacking this reinforcement, the hinge is formed by adhering the covering material (leather, cloth, paper, etc.) directly to the fold in the endpaper. Also refers to a narrow cloth or paper stub inserted along the binding edge between the pages of a book to allow a map or added leaf to flex easily when the volume is opened. Synonymous in this sense with guard. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A hinge is a mechanical device that connects two solid objects, allowing rotation between them. Hinges may be made of flexible material or of moving components. In biology, many joints function as hinges. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. (references) | 2: [Noun] A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel. (references) | 3: [Noun] A point in time, on which subsequent events depend. (references) | 4: [Verb] (intransitive) To depend on something. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) 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. The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core. (references) | 6: [Verb] (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge. (references) |
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Common Expressions: hinge
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Butt hinge | 1: See 1st Butt, 10. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Gemel hinge | (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hinge and Bracket | Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were the stage names of George Logan and Patrick Fyffe respectively. The characters of Hinge and Bracket were elderly, intellectual, female musicians; in these personas the male Logan and Fyffe played and sang song to comic effect. They made numerous appearances on television and radio. (references) | ||
| Hinge joint | 1: (a) (Anat.) See Ginglymus . (b) (Mech.) Any joint resembling a hinge, by which two pieces are connected so as to permit relative turning in one plane. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: A joint allowing movement in one plane only. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Hinge on | Be contingent on. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hinge upon | Be contingent on. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Joint hinge | 1: A hinge having long leaves; a strap hinge. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Jonbar hinge | A Jonbar Hinge is a science-fiction conceit derived from a book by Jack Williamson, entitled The Legion of Time. It refers to any crucial choice or event in a story about time travel where the outcome of the choice or event will lead to a different future. (references) | ||
| Living hinge | A living hinge is a hinge with no moving parts. It is generally a thin section of the material that bends to allow movement. The lack of any friction or wear in such a hinge makes it essential in the design of MEMS, and the ease of manufacturing and assembly from the reduced part count makes them quite common in disposable packaging. Large-scale living hinges are most often made from polypropylene due to its excellent fatigue resistance. (references) | ||
| Mike Hinge | Mike Hinge (1931-2003) was a New Zealand-born artist and illustrator. In the 1970s he did a considerable amount of work for Amazing Stories edited by Ted White and Analog Magazine. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for best professional artist. (references) | ||
| Parliament hinge | (Arch.), a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Stamp hinge | Stamp hinges are small, folded, rectangular pieces of paper coated with a mild gum, used to hold postage stamps onto the pages of a stamp album. The short end is moistened and affixed to the stamp, the long end is likewise affixed to the page. The hinge keeps the stamp on the page while still allowing it to be lifted to examine the back (for instance to see the watermark or expert marks). (references) | ||
| Strap hinge | 1: A hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| T hinge | A hinge that looks like the letter T when it is opened; similar to a strap hinge except that one strap has been replaced by half of a butt hinge that can be mortised flush into the stationary frame. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Tee hinge | A hinge that looks like the letter T when it is opened; similar to a strap hinge except that one strap has been replaced by half of a butt hinge that can be mortised flush into the stationary frame. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| The Crooked Hinge | The Crooked Hinge is a novel (1938) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr, often counted among the greatest mysteries of the Golden Age. It combines a seemingly impossible throat-slashing with elements of witchcraft, an automaton modelled on Maelzel's Chess Player, and the story of the Tichborne Claimant. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: HINGED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hinged apron | Mining | See: apron conveyor. (references) | |
| Hinged apron pan | Mining | An apron pan that is made with a hinge construction along each edge so that it may be joined to companion pans by a hinge pin or through a rod. (references) | |
| Hinged bar | Mining | Steel bars placed in contact with the roof and at right angles to the longwall face. They are usually supported by yielding steel props. The bar can be extended to support newly exposed roof by adding another bar, which can be locked onto it by a simple wedge or pin arrangement. The hinged bar is widely used on conveyor faces in continuous mining. (references) | |
| Hinged inside deadlight | Food & Agriculture | A round plate of brass or steel, working on a hinge, and screwing down upon a sidelight, serving to protect the glass port light in heavy weather. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: hinge | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hinge | 10 | Floating hinge | 3 | |
| Hinge joint | 9 | Hinge | 10 | |
| John Hinge | 9 | Hinge and Bracket | 7 | |
| The Crooked Hinge | 8 | Hinge joint | 9 | |
| Hinge and Bracket | 7 | Hinge theorem | 2 | |
| Jonbar Hinge | 7 | John Hinge | 9 | |
| Living hinge | 6 | Jonbar Hinge | 7 | |
| Stamp hinge | 6 | Living hinge | 6 | |
| Plastic hinge | 5 | Mike Hinge | 2 | |
| Floating hinge | 3 | Plastic hinge | 5 | |
| Hinge theorem | 2 | Stamp hinge | 6 | |
| Mike Hinge | 2 | The Crooked Hinge | 8 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
