hinges is a form of:
Hinge
noun
- 1.
- (A joint on which a door, lid, etc., swings to open and close, a natural movable joint, such as the knee, or thew joining cartilage of a clamrheu) ត្រចៀក (ទ្វារ បង្អួច)
Example: Good behaviours hingeon selfcontrol.
verb — past tense: hinged ; past participle: hinged ; present participle: hinging ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to turn on, to bepend on) អាស្រ័យលើ, ពឹងលើ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) ដាក់ត្រចៀក (ទ្វារបង្អួច)
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- 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.
- 3.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
verb — past tense: hinged ; past participle: hinged ; present participle: hinging ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 1.
- To bend