hingewise.html - {v.} To depend on as decisive: be decided by. * /In a dictatorship, everything hinges on one man./ * /A tobacco grower's income for the year may hinge on what the weather is like in a few summer weeks./

hingewise.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a movable, usu. metal, joint or mechanism such as that by which a door is hung on a side post. b Biol. a natural joint performing a similar function, e.g. that of a bivalve shell.
2 a central point or principle on which everything depends.

--v.

1 intr. (foll. by on) a depend (on a principle, an event, etc.) (all hinges on his acceptance). b (of a door etc.) hang and turn (on a post etc.).
2 tr. attach with or as if with a hinge.

stamp-hinge a small piece of gummed transparent paper used for fixing postage stamps in an album etc.

hinged adj. hingeless adj. hingewise adv. [ME heng etc., rel. to HANG]

hingewise.html - {v.} To depend on as decisive: be decided by. * /In a dictatorship, everything hinges on one man./ * /A tobacco grower's income for the year may hinge on what the weather is like in a few summer weeks./

hingewise.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a movable, usu. metal, joint or mechanism such as that by which a door is hung on a side post. b Biol. a natural joint performing a similar function, e.g. that of a bivalve shell.
2 a central point or principle on which everything depends.

--v.

1 intr. (foll. by on) a depend (on a principle, an event, etc.) (all hinges on his acceptance). b (of a door etc.) hang and turn (on a post etc.).
2 tr. attach with or as if with a hinge.

stamp-hinge a small piece of gummed transparent paper used for fixing postage stamps in an album etc.

hinged adj. hingeless adj. hingewise adv. [ME heng etc., rel. to HANG]

hingewise.html - {v.} To depend on as decisive: be decided by. * /In a dictatorship, everything hinges on one man./ * /A tobacco grower's income for the year may hinge on what the weather is like in a few summer weeks./

hingewise.html - n.
= THERAVADA. [Skr. f. hina lesser + yana vehicle]