Hinge in a sentence as a noun

The success of the project seemed to hinge on that algorithm. During the course of the next two months I did discover the algorithm.

I'd argue no, not with the keyboard/trackpad situation and lack of a rigid connecting hinge. Ars's review noted as much.

But your entire website/app shouldn't hinge on a single piece of software trying to solve your animation woes.

Sometimes there's a hole drilled in slightly the wrong location, a hinge is crooked, or there's a small gap between two pieces that should be flush against each other. No one notices.

This also serves to clarify the central hinge of the negotiations. 4.

I think that the uncomfortable future for a lot of the e-properties that people enjoy happens to hinge on the fact that the way they are the most useful clashes with the ways they can make money. Big time.

A laptop has to use space for the hinge, keyboard, trackpad, peripheral ports, and display. Worse, you can't fit batteries behind a laptop display without ruining the balance.

Few things are as heartbreaking to see as families just not being able to do anything and watch someone in their family just hinge on hope from a database. The least we can do is increase their chances for hope with a cheek swab.

Possibly related, the fact that when you hang a door, the gap between the top hinge and the top of the door, should be smaller than the gap between the bottom hinge and the floor. This makes the door spacing look equal from our usual standing position.

Since there's no question that copying took place, the case will hinge on whether the copying was "fair use" - that's where the issue of whether the copying was "transformative" comes in.

Put a metal sign on a hinge that is at the too-tall height several hundred feet in front of the tunnel. When they hit it, they will definitely stop, and replacing the sign is a fraction of the cost of the water sign, which they can drive through anyway.

Hinge in a sentence as a verb

The findings of the study did hinge on the person seeking autonomy to make enough to cover their living expenses such that the concern for money was off the table. Really interesting stuff.

Tablets have no keyboard, trackpad, or hinge, so they can basically be a giant battery with a screen attached. The iPad has a bigger battery than the 11" MacBook Air, despite the Air weighing 50% more and taking up 30% more volume.

The Vermont case and now the Colorado case both hinge on the government knowing that what they are looking for is on the encrypted drive because they saw it and have an admission to it respectively. This is what the ruling states in my opinion.

His argument doesn't really hinge on states. He's arguing that the there's a hilarious geographical disparity going on, in that big bits of rural backwater America is nothing like the America people like to believe in.

The success of a similar system in the US will hinge on whether the increased costs from running it in America will keep things profitable. The best solution I can see at the moment is to accept only credit cards and then charge heavy fines/institute a ban for trashing the place.

The hinge looks particularly bad. And judging by the pictures it's an awful lot bulkier than a Macbook Air. Chrome OS strikes me as an underpowered OS. That is, there's a lot it won't do and it seems mostly suitable for underpowered machines.

This is a textbook example of why it's never smart to hinge one's profitability upon the whims of another company. I've been down these paths with Adsense, EPN, and others and I learned the hard way that affiliate programs and ad revenue can be booming one day and gone the next.

The lack of a hinge between the two screens makes me wonder how this will interact with games that use closing the screen as a required game mechanic. For instance, "Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass" has a puzzle where you have an emblem on one screen, and you close the lid to imprint the emblem on a map on the other screen.

I bring this up because the worth of a tesla will not just hinge on the ability to fit a new battery pack and go. It will also hinge of the ability of the basic vehicle and non-propulsion systems to continue to work and become economically serviceable.

The tricky thing about citing claims about ZeniMax's IP is that those claims hinge on the IP actually belonging to ZeniMax. Oculus and Carmack may be able to make a case that the VR work Carmack did isn't bound up in Carmack's work-for-hire agreement with ZeniMax. But directly using ZeniMax properties to promote the thing while working under a cloud of IP ownership uncertainty was probably not a great move.

It's not like I'm blindly trusting Apple to not, say, saw off my leg and feed it to alligators; I'm trusting them to make decisions about a whole bunch of tradeoffs, decisions that will at best be valid only for a few months anyway, decisions on which hinge the expenditure of a few hundred dollars. I'm not saying that becoming a micro-expert on your purchases is wrong, just that there's something to be said for not bothering.

Hinge definitions

noun

a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other

noun

a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"

verb

attach with a hinge