Usually means: Joint allowing controlled rotational movement.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hinge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hinge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hinge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hinge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hinge, hinge: Wordnik
  7. hinge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hinge: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. hinge: Wiktionary
  10. hinge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hinge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hinge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Hinge, hinge: Dictionary.com
  14. hinge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hinge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Hinge (app), Hinge (disambiguation), Hinge (surname), Hinge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hinge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hinge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hinge: Rhymezone
  20. hinge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hinge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. hinge: Free Dictionary
  23. hinge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hinge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. hinge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. hinge: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hinge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hinge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinge: Idioms
  2. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hinge: Easton Bible
  2. Hinge: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinge: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Hinge: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. hinge: Mussel Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hinge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Hinge: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See hinged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
noun:  A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
noun:  A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
noun:  A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
noun:  (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
noun:  One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
noun:  A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
noun:  In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
verb:  (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
verb:  (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete) To bend.
verb:  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.
noun:  A surname.

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