hinge vs hyphen

hinge

noun
  • A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend. 

  • One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. 

  • A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. 

  • The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution. 

  • A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account. 

  • A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. 

  • A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. 

verb
  • 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 attach by, or equip with a hinge. 

  • To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account. 

hyphen

noun
  • Something that links two more consequential things. 

  • Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc. 

  • An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings. 

  • The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. 

conj
  • Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-". 

How often have the words hinge and hyphen occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )