pin
IPA: pˈɪn
noun
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- (medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- Acronym of personal identification number. [A number used to confirm an individual's identity, e.g. when using an ATM or a mobile phone, or when making payment using a credit card or debit card.]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of preferred IUPAC name.
verb
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- Alternative form of peen [To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.]
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Examples of "pin" in Sentences
- The strings are hooked to the pins.
- Type your pin number in the machine.
- The pin code of the village is unique.
- The photo of the pin is in the public domain.
- A stop in the groove limits the travel of the pin.
- An elegy for Vizzini was pinned to the church door.
- The pin consists of a hound, identical to that on the pendant.
- Each of the shields is restrained by a pin located in the rod.
- Adjustable pins on the collar control the depth of the opening.
- A locking pin is provided for securing the shackle pin to the forked member.
- For all of these awards the pin is the same every year (generally speaking).
- A lynchpin is defined as a "pin inserted through an axle tree to hold a wheel on."
- That which they call pin-money, is to buy everything in the versal world, down to their very shoe-knots.
- The difference in pin-to-pin drop at increased distance was the same with FPs/BHs, just overall more drop with the change to BH.
- My dad had a expert pin from the Marines shooting a 1903 prior to the Garand, Pacific theatre WW11 but he would always get as close as possible.
- String pin = cmblocation. getSelectedItem (). toString (); rs2 = st2. executeQuery ( "Select * from pin_numbers where pin_number like 'pin&????'");
- # Automatic Firing Pin Lock – When at battery with a bullet in the chamber or empty, the firing pin is blocked automatically in either the cocked or de-cocked position.
- January 6th, 2009 at 1: 05 pm okay, awesome. this makes sense. the pin is the type that is supposed to be removed, but apparently I have really dense bone and the first attempt broke off and will be permanent.