how to pronounce hinge

/hɪndʒ/

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hinge is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of hinge in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… being at the hinge of the uk and the eu …”

meanings of hinge

noun:

A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.

verb:

To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
To depend on something.
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.

hinge frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word hinge occurs in english on average 2.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hinge can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hinge can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;