/ˈhɪndʒ/
noun
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.verb
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.(with on or upon) To depend on something.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.To bend.