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Substantiivit

1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. See also pintel.
2. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
3. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
4. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
5. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Verbit

1. (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
2. (intransitive) To depend on something.
3. (transitive, 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.
4. (obsolete) To bend.