different between hinge vs ginge

English

Etymology

From Middle English henge, from Old English *hen? (“hinge”), compare Old English hen?e- in hen?eclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English hen?en (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *hangaz, *hangiz (“hanging”, adjective). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Dutch heng (“door handle”), Low German henge (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), geheng (“hinge”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Old English h?n (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?nj, IPA^(key): /?h?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

hinge (plural hinges)

1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1

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

2. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
3. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
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.
5. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
6. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Synonyms

• (device upon which a door hangs): har
• (statistics): quartile

Meronyms

• (device upon which a door hangs): pintel

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging or hingeing, simple past and past participle hinged)

1. (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
2. (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
   • 2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[1]

     Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre-half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.

3. (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.

4. (obsolete) To bend.

Translations

Anagrams

• ehing, neigh

Dutch

Verb

hinge

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of hangen

Estonian

Noun

hinge

1. genitive singular of hing
2. partitive singular of hing
3. illative singular of hing

German

Pronunciation

Verb

hinge

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive past of hängen

Middle English

Noun

hinge

1. Alternative form of henge

Middle Dutch

Verb

hinge

1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Adjective

ginge (comparative more ginge, superlative most ginge)

1. (slang, derogatory) ginger, red-haired

Noun

ginge (plural ginges)

1. (slang, derogatory) A red-haired person.

Anagrams

• geg in

Dutch

Verb

ginge

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gaan

German

Pronunciation

Verb

ginge

1. first-person singular past subjunctive of gehen
2. third-person singular past subjunctive of gehen

Middle English

Adjective

ginge

1. Alternative form of yong

Swedish

Verb

ginge

1. (dated) past subjunctive of gå
   • 1669-1670, Lasse Lucidor, Skulle jag sörja, då vore jag tokot

   • 1907, Selma Lagerlöf, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa, chapter 26

   • 1917 translation, the Bible, 1 Corinthians, 11:31