hinge 的 3 个定义
- a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- a natural anatomical joint at which motion occurs around a transverse axis, as that of the knee or a bivalve shell.
- that on which something is based or depends; pivotal consideration or factor.
- Also called mount. Philately. a gummed sticker for affixing a stamp to a page of an album, so folded as to form a hinge, allowing the stamp to be raised to reveal the text beneath.
hinged, hing·ing.
- to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge: Everything hinges on his decision.
hinged, hing·ing.
- to furnish with or attach by a hinge or hinges.
- to attach as if by a hinge.
- to make or consider as dependent upon; predicate: He hinged his action on future sales.
hinge 近义词
pivot, turning point
be contingent on
更多hinge例句
- India’s mass immunisation plan for Covid-19 hinges on some of the lowest-paid workers in its healthcare system.
- Irrespective of the type of business you run, the future growth of your business hinges on one thing – your customer acquisition strategy.
- As an example, he contrasted a door hinge and a hinge of another sort—the ear of a house pet.
- The health of our local economy hinges on the health of San Diegans.
- The legality of this sale hinges on whether the home was purchased at fair market value.
- Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.
- Race relations in Saint Louis could hinge on the outcome of this announcement.
- The game is almost certain to hinge on how well Manning and his receivers fare against Sherman and company.
- The jokes hinge on stereotypes: black people like curvy women and know how to get down on a dance floor.
- Much will hinge on what happens in 2014, in the coming crisis negotiations and then in the elections.
- Never did events of the utmost magnitude hinge on incidents so trivial to the community at large.
- Laidlaw threw his heavy bulk against the door, burst lock and hinge, and sent it flat on the garret floor.
- The mast is on a hinge, so that it can turn down backward, and lie along flat on the deck of the boat.
- And that told me a good many things, as it was the hand that had rested against the upper hinge of the door.
- A hinge was made from heavy elastic bands to allow for two dozen cards in the frame at one time.