English-Italian translations for hinge

cernieraLei, piuttosto, ha mai sentito parlare della cerniera?But, in any case, have you never heard of the hinge? Fungiamo, per così dire, da cerniera della porta di accesso per i cittadini. We are, as it were, the hinge on the door, allowing it to open to the citizens.
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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

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