hinge
英検準1級左右される(hinge on)
意味
- (ドアなどの)ちょうつがい
- ちょうつがいのような働きをするもの(ひじやひざの関節など);かなめ
- …にちょうつがいを付ける,をちょうつがいで取り付ける
- チョウツガイで働く
- (…に)よる,(…)次第である《+on(upon)+名(doing)》
例文
He hung the gate on hinges.
彼は門をちょうつがいで取り付けた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), Dutch geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongs…