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hinge | unhinged |

As an adverb hinge

is then (at that time).

As a verb unhinged is

(unhinge).

As an adjective unhinged is

not furnished with a hinge.

hinge

English

(wikipedia hinge)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
  • 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.
  • This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
  • (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  • One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
  • * Creech
  • When the moon is in the hinge at East.
  • * Milton
  • Nor slept the winds / Within their stony caves, but rush'd abroad / From the four hinges of the world.

    Synonyms

    * (device upon which a door hangs) har * (statistics) quartile

    Derived terms

    * hinge line, hingeline * hinge termination * lower hinge * midhinge * rehinge * upper hinge * hingeable

    Verb

  • To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  • To depend on something.
  • archaeology 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.
  • The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
  • (obsolete) To bend.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    unhinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unhinge)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not furnished with a hinge.
  • an unhinged door
  • (philately, of a stamp) Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
  • (usually, humorous) Mentally ill.
  • See also

    * MUH * MNH