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pin English

Meaning pin meaning

What does pin mean?
Definitions in simple English

pin

A pin is a small, sharp thing used for holding things together.

pin

When you pin something, you are fastening it with a pin. We should pin this poster to that wall. She pinned the dress pattern to the fabric. Joey pinned the tail on the donkey and won the prize. A term in wrestling meaning to force an opponent's shoulders to the mat and holding them there for three seconds.

pin

to hold fast or prevent from moving The child was pinned under the fallen tree attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins pin the needle to the shirt pin the blame on the innocent man a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown (= stick) informal terms for the leg fever left him weak on his sticks pierce with a pin pin down the butterfly immobilize a piece (= pivot) axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns (= peg) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing (= peg) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc (= fall) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat (= bowling pin) a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target

PIN

(= personal identification number) a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts

Synonyms pin synonyms

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Topics pin topics

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Conjugation pin conjugation

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pin · verb

Examples pin examples

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Simple sentences

You could have heard a pin drop.
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck.
Please input your PIN number.
Roy fastened the medal with a pin.
The pin pierced his finger and it began to bleed.
It is a sin to steal even a pin.
He always keeps his room as neat as a pin.
You could hear a pin drop in the room.
I've lost my pin number!
I've forgotten my pin number.
Grandma sprinkled flour on the rolling pin so the dough wouldn't stick to it.
The child looks as neat as a pin.
You could hear a pin drop.
Be careful where you stick the pin.
He who steals a pin will steal an ox.
It was so still that you would have heard a pin drop.
He pricked himself with a pin.
If you don't have a safety pin, a straight pin will have to do.
Mary wore a silver pin on her coat.
Pin the flower on your lapel.
See a pin and pick it up, all day long you'll have a pin.

Movie subtitles

I've come out wearing a bra that's mended with a safety pin!
Drop me a pin.
By the way, your pin.
Do they think I did it or is it just something else to pin on me?
You can't pin this one on me!
If she does, stick a pin in her.
Who is she going to stick a pin into?
Tape measure around the neck and pin-cushion on the hip.
It is macula marmorea. That is why it is known as the white plague. Although we simply call it Cheng's Disease or Morbus Chengi after Doctor Cheng who had first described several cases in a Pei-Pin hospital.
It's right next to the pin.
Stop talking and take out the pin.
My diamond pin was in it. - Your diamond pin?
You just lost a diamond pin.
Yes, that's a possibility, but if we resist now, we give credence to their doubts, and they could pin everything on us.
You can't pin crimes on people just because.
Pin this on Catherine.
You'll need some pin money to spend.
You wouldn't pin me down with a question like that, would you? I see.
Boy, the dames will pin that one on the wall.
You don't understand. - It's right next to the pin.
My diamond pin was in it.
Your diamond pin?
You just lost a diamond pin. We're going to find it, all right?
A pin slipped.
And you can't pin anything on him.
Only a pin point, monsieur Beaumont, in a glass of wine or perhaps a flower.
Only a pin point, Monsieur. In a flower. or perhaps in a glass of wine?
Because those guys got away, you're trying to pin it onto me. You're not gonna get away with it.
You can't pin this one on me! - Sit down!
Looking for a punk kid because he gave an old man a pin scratch.

News and current affairs

First, the United States justified the Israeli assault and blamed everything on Hamas, just as it used to pin all responsibility for whatever went wrong on Yasir Arafat and Fatah.
True, the assembly line, a brain-numbing experience, was a feature of capitalism from the pin factor that Adam Smith wrote about in 1776 until Henry Ford's giant plants in the 1920's.
First, once you pin blame for a conflict on a single individual, a Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il, it is difficult to see a solution to international conflict that does not result from the tyrant's downfall.
I would love to pin the blame for all this on Bush and his team.
There have been countless attempts to pin the hatred of the September 11th attackers on something else: surely, America's global economic power and political hegemony at least nurtured the conditions in which such hatred could develop.
The results amounted to little more than a pin prick.
The last thing China needs is to try to balance too much on the head of a pin.
His government then sought to pin the blame on the local prosecutor who had formally arrested the captain.
I would love to pin the blame for all this on Bush and his team. But that would ignore that Bush was playing to a receptive audience.
Although these reserve estimates are based today's known deposits, we should not pin our hopes on vast undiscovered supplies.
America should not pin too much hope on a weakening dollar to correct its trade imbalances.
The fallout from a war in Iran would pin down the US in the Middle East for years to come, undermining its new strategic priorities.
Ordinary Russians, by contrast, are willing to pin their hopes on a single charismatic figure, not only because they have fewer promising alternatives, but also because they face fewer constraints in doing so.