Hinges meaning : A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. 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. 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. To attach by, or equip with a hinge. (with on or upon) 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.