n. | 1. | |
| 1. | 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. | 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. | One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. |
v. t. | 1. | To attach by, or furnish with, hinges. |
| 2. | To bend. |
v. i. | 1. | 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. |