hinged
- adjective
- /hɪndʒd/
:
dependiente de
- My success hinged on my ability to work well with the team.
Examples
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My identity hinged on these questions, and since I couldn't always answer them decisively, it seemed I could not identify myself.
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So I think it has hinged really for the moment on the the behaviour and the state of mind of the army.
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It is on this generally vague chunk of theory that's hinged our entire ghost hunting plan.
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Her decision was hinged upon the outcome of the meeting.
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The project's future hinged on the approval of the budget.
Synonyms
176
3.2
Needing something else to happen or be true
112
2.8
Controlled by another thing or condition
31
3.4
Something else decides it, for example a condition like the weather
12
6.4
Dependent on something else or on certain conditions
6
6.4
Dependent on a condition or on something happening
Antonyms
How Dependent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hinged comes from the word hinge, the small joint on a door that everything turns on; a helpful way to remember it is to imagine the whole result 'turning' on one point. So if something 'hinged on' a choice or fact, it simply depended on that single thing.