How to pronounce “hinge”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (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.
• 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.
• (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
• (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
• (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.
• 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.

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