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say it: hinj
hinge is a noun and verb meaning "a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
“his absence is the hinge of our plan”
attach with a hinge
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hinge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.