Word Meaning

Meaning of hinges

- The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
- That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
- To bend.
- To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

Crossword clue for hinges

- Device used on a swing door
- Door pivot
- Flexible joint
- Movable joint
- Pivot
- Stretching exercise reveals flexible joint
- Swinging door hanger
- Depends (on)
- Neighs about devices for joints
- Pivots
- Sign he injured movable joints