1. hinge - Noun
2. hinge - Verb
3. Hinge - Proper 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.
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.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
To bend.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself. Rollo May
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. J.R. Ward
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. Gerhard Schröder
... I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes. Hanif Kureishi
Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas. Thomas Wolfe