:a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
:a short, slender piece of wire with a point at one end and a head at the other, for fastening things together.
:any of various forms of fasteners or ornaments consisting essentially or partly of a pointed or penetrating wire or shaft: a jeweled pin.
:a badge having a pointed bar or pin attached, by which it is fastened to the clothing: a fraternity pin.
:Digital Technology. a photo or link that is bookmarked on Pinterest, a website and mobile application: She added 5 pins to her recipes board.
:Machinery. a short metal rod, as a linchpin, driven through holes in adjacent parts, as a hub and an axle, to keep the parts together.a short cylindrical rod or tube, as a wrist pin or crankpin, joining two parts so as to permit them to move in one plane relative to each other.a short axle, as one on which a pulley rotates in a block.
:the part of a cylindrical key stem entering a lock.
:a clothespin.
:a hairpin.
:rolling pin.
:a peg, nail, or stud marking the center of a target.
Lastly, I put the door back in place and drove the pins through the hinges.
However, one issue Greenberg said he sees with this model is that it’s hard to pin-point exactly how many people are watching, how long they watched and who those people are.
Install the newly waxed chain on a clean drivetrain, using the dedicated connecting pin or quick link that comes with the chain—the one you swished in the wax.
I keep a clothes pin in my purse and clip my grocery list to the cart.
The diabolical ironclad beetle is notorious among entomologists for being so fantastically durable that it bends the steel pins usually used to mount insects for display, says entomologist Michael Caterino of Clemson University in South Carolina.
Presumably, had the deputies who pinned Saylor wore body cameras, video evidence would have helped determine what happened to him.
The deputies pinned Saylor to the ground, and he died of asphyxiation.
He was pinned to the cement for his refusal to go along with an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.
Cooper had little Alexis pose for a picture on the exact spot there Garner was pinned.
It was astonishing yesterday that he pinned the blame for the attacks on Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader.
He was flung down heavily, and pinned prone in a corner by one of those bullies who knelt on his spine.
Besides those who have pinned their faith to the thicknesses, there are those who take up with the "air mass" theory.
:Bowling. any one of the rounded wooden clubs set up as the target in tenpins, ninepins, duckpins, etc.
:Golf. the flag staff which identifies a hole.
:any of the projecting knobs or rails on a pinball machine that serve as targets for the ball.
:Informal. a human leg.
:Music. peg.
:Wrestling. a fall.
:Nautical. an axle for a sheave of a block.belaying pin.
:Carpentry. a tenon in a dovetail joint; dovetail.
:a very small amount; a trifle: Such insincere advice isn't worth a pin.
:Chess. the immobilization of an enemy piece by attacking with one's queen, rook, or bishop.
:Electronics. a pin-shaped connection, as the terminals on the base of an electron tube or the connections on an integrated circuit.
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pinned, pin·ning.
:to fasten or attach with or as with a pin or pins: to pin two pieces of cloth together.
:to hold fast in a spot or position: The debris pinned him down.
:to transfix or mount with a pin or the like: to pin a flower as a botanical specimen.
:Chess. to immobilize by placing one's queen, rook, or bishop in a position to check the exposed king or capture a valuable piece if the pinned piece were moved.
:Wrestling. to secure a fall over one's opponent.
:Digital Technology. to bookmark on Pinterest, a website and mobile application: He pinned a jacket from Macy's on his fashion board. to fix to the top of a feed: She pinned a tweet about her forthcoming book to the top of her Twitter feed.
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pinned, pin·ning.
:Digital Technology. to bookmark a photo or link on Pinterest: I've been pinning a lot lately.
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:pin down, to bind or hold to a course of action, a promise, etc.to force to deal with a situation or to come to a decision: We tried to pin him down for a definite answer, but he was too evasive for us.