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rehinge
English
Etymology
re- +? hinge
Verb
rehinge (third-person singular simple present rehinges, present participle rehinging, simple past and past participle rehinged)
- (transitive) To fit with new hinges.
- We're going to have to rehinge that door.
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hinge
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)
- 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.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1
- 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.
- This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
- (statistics) 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.
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)
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (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.
- 2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[1]
- (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.
- (obsolete) To bend.
Translations
Anagrams
- ehing, neigh
Dutch
Verb
hinge
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of hangen
Estonian
Noun
hinge
- genitive singular of hing
- partitive singular of hing
- illative singular of hing
German
Pronunciation
Verb
hinge
- first/third-person singular subjunctive past of hängen
Middle English
Noun
hinge
- Alternative form of henge
Middle Dutch
Verb
hinge
- first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen
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