(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or
south.
(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
(v. t.) To bend.
(v. i.) 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.
