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Definition of Hinge on
1. Verb. Be contingent on. "Your grade will depends on your homework"
Specialized synonyms: Build On, Build Upon, Repose On, Rest On
Definition of Hinge on
1. Verb. to depend on, depend upon, be contingent upon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hinge On
Literary usage of Hinge on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1886)
"Would it not be easy to find many Christians who make their salvation hinge on
things which affect only the perishable part of our being, and interpose ..."
2. Personalism and the Problems of Philosophy: An Appreciation of the Work of by Ralph Tyler Flewelling, Rudolf Eucken (1915)
"... ALL PHILOSOPHICAL VALUES hinge on THE DEFINITION OF REALITY THE real import
of any system of thought eventually rests with its doctrine of reality. ..."
3. The Elements of Statics and Dynamics by Sidney Luxton Loney (1891)
"Also the action of the hinge on the one body is equal and opposite to the action
of the hinge on the other body; for forces, equal and opposite to these ..."
4. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"62 and 63 are two forms of the cock's comb hinge. On the left the example ...
But at least one house which the author has visited had this hinge on all the ..."
5. A Collection of Problems in Illustration of the Principles of Theoretical by William Walton (1876)
"Let X, Y, be respectively the horizontal and vertical components of the pressure
exerted by the hinge on the rod, which will be equal and opposite to the ..."
6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1798)
"9 • hinge on a ... Fig. 3. ia triangular aperture between the beak of the larger
valve and hinge. Fig. 4 —— • • hinge on a ..."
7. Causality, Or, The Philosophy of Law Investigated by George Jamieson (1872)
"Liberty, the hinge on which Providence operates. As regards creation, things
stood forth precisely as they were made, precisely as God had willed it, ..."
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