Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.
- noun Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.
- noun A whit; a jot.
- noun A slender, usually cylindrical piece of wood or metal for holding or fastening parts together, or serving as a support for suspending one thing from another, as.
- noun A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
- noun A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.
- noun A cotter pin.
- noun The part of a key stem entering a lock.
- noun Music One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.
- noun Nautical A belaying pin.
- noun Nautical A thole pin.
- noun An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.
- noun A rolling pin.
- noun One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.
- noun A flagstick.
- noun Informal The legs.
- noun Electronics A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.
- noun Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.
- noun Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.
- noun Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.
- transitive verb To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.
- transitive verb To transfix.
- transitive verb To place in a position of trusting dependence.
- transitive verb To hold fast; immobilize.
- transitive verb Sports To win a fall from in wrestling.
- transitive verb To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.
- adjective Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose; confine; pen or pound.
- To aim at or strike with a stone.
- noun A spot or web on the eye: usually in the phrase pin and (or) web.
- To fasten or secure with a bolt or peg.
- To fasten with a pin or pins.
- To transfix with or as with a pin; hence, to seize and hold fast in the same spot or position.
- To nab; seize; steal.
- To swage by striking with the peen of a hammer, as in splaying an edge of an iron hoop to give it a flare corresponding to that of the cask.
- To clog the teeth of: as, to
pin a file: said of particles which adhere so firmly to the teeth of a file that they have to be picked out with a piece of steel wire. - noun In archery, a place in a bowstaff where a lateral twig has been trimmed off. Such places are weak if the twig is out off flush.
- noun In ccram., a small three-sided rod of fire-clay inserted in the side of the saggar to support the ware (as a plate) while it is fired in the kiln.
- noun A tapered wooden pin having a split in the small end, in which a wedge is inserted to keep the pin from falling out.
- In chess, to attack (a piece) in such a fashion that it cannot be moved without leaving the king or queen in check.
- noun A wooden or metal peg or bolt used to fasten or hold a thing in place, fasten things together, or as a point of attachment or support.
- noun A peg or bolt serving to keep a wheel on its axle; a linch pin.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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String pin = cmblocation. getSelectedItem (). toString (); rs2 = st2. executeQuery ( "Select * from pin_numbers where pin_number like 'pin&????'");
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community Pushpasheela 2010
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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.
mri | clusterflock 2009
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For all of these awards the pin is the same every year (generally speaking).
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That which they call pin-money, is to buy everything in the versal world, down to their very shoe-knots.
Scarborough and the Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783
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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.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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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.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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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 100 grain Muzzy broadheads shoot exactly like field points at 20 yards and closer. 2009
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A lynchpin is defined as a "pin inserted through an axle tree to hold a wheel on."
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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 100 grain Muzzy broadheads shoot exactly like field points at 20 yards and closer. 2009
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# 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.
trivet commented on the word pin
Personal Identification Number
February 28, 2007
oroboros commented on the word pin
Nip in reverse.
November 3, 2007
sionnach commented on the word pin
sseltiw yleugav & suoivbo
November 3, 2007
skipvia commented on the word pin
(: ...ylkciuq stsil eht pu uoy sevom ti tuB
November 3, 2007
sionnach commented on the word pin
aha! ( = !aha in reverse)
November 3, 2007
skipvia commented on the word pin
Channois: sionnach in reverse! Sounds distinctly French.
November 3, 2007
sionnach commented on the word pin
If you squint, I could be a chamois. Instead of a fox.
Of course, this has to regard the 'ch' as a single letter. Which it is, kind of, since 'h' is not a real letter in Gaelic, just there for lenition purposes.
November 3, 2007
treeseed commented on the word pin
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
to present (a young woman) with a fraternity pin as a pledge of affection
Also "going steady"
February 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word pin
Eating and drinking went together: so that they soon got into a merry pin, and made a roaring noise.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 5
September 12, 2008
whichbe commented on the word pin
A Plastic Nightmare.
December 11, 2008