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# hinge

«hinge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small metal joint that lets a door, gate, lid or window…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hinge, hinges); verb (hinge, hinges, hinged, hinging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hinge is a small metal joint that lets a door, gate, lid or window swing open and shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#m1)

2) As a verb, to hinge on something means to depend on it completely («Everything hinges on the weather»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#m2)

3) A hinge can also be a movable joint in the body, such as the one that lets your jaw open and shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety hinges are on doors, cupboards, boxes and laptops; fingers can get trapped in the hinge side of a door. In science and design it is a simple pivot, like a joint in the body (the knee and elbow are hinge joints). Phrases: «off its hinges», «hinge joint», «hinge on».

### examples

- The door squeaks because the hinge needs oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x1)
- Mind your fingers near the hinges of the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x2)
- The gate came off its hinges in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x3)
- Your elbow is a hinge joint; it bends only one way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x4)
- The lid of the box is fixed with two small hinges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x5)
- The match hinged on the last penalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x6)
- Whether we go to the beach hinges on the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x7)
- My laptop's hinge is loose, so the screen wobbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x8)
- These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/#x9)

### note

Countable noun: «a hinge». The verb is usually «hinge on/upon» and is often passive or about results. Past: «hinged». The g is soft (like j). Safety: never put fingers in the gap by the hinge side of a door.

### In the corpora

- [Check around a door before closing it, because the hinge side crushes fingers badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/14/)
- [Oil on a squeaky hinge makes a slippery layer between the metal parts, so they slide instead of rubbing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/7-living-with-friction/4/)
- [A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/11/)
- [The door is turning upon its hinges, and the sluggard is still upon his bed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.763/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hinge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hinge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.