LekhoriLekhoriA jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.
A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
To depend on something.
A surname.
From Middle English henge, from Old English *henġ (“hinge”), compare Old English henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), from Proto-...
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Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre-half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
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.
The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.