hinge

hinge is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
4. transitive verb. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
5. transitive verb. To bend.
6. intransitive verb. 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.
7. noun. a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
8. noun. a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend

   "his absence is the hinge of our plan"

9. verb. attach with a hinge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hinge:

neigh

Common word forms

hinged, hinger, hinges, hinging, hingeless

Words from these letters

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