English-Dutch translations for hinge

• scharnier
  Wij vormen zo te zeggen de scharnier waarop de deur voor de burgers opendraait. We are, as it were, the hinge on the door, allowing it to open to the citizens.
  Een scharnier is namelijk een zeer interessante, maar uiteindelijk zeer eenvoudige uitvinding, waarmee het lengteprobleem van de laadbrug opgelost kan worden. The hinge is quite interesting in itself actually, but after all it is a very simple invention, which can solve this problem of the length of the ramp.
• har
• hengsel
• hoeksteen
• keerpunt

Definition of hinge

• 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
• The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution
• To attach by, or equip with a hinge
• 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#Verb|bend

Examples

• This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
• The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core

Related words

• hinged
• whinge
• unhinge
• unhinged
• whingeing
• whinger
• hinge on
• hinge joint
• hinge pillar