hinge

hinge has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
• n.. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
• n.. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
• v. t.. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
• v. t.. To bend.
• v. i.. 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.
• n.. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
• n.. a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"
• v.. attach with a hinge