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(pĭn) 
n.
Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
phrasal verbs:
n.
- A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.
- Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.
- A whit; a jot: didn't care a pin about the matter.
- 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:
- A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
- A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.
- A cotter pin.
- The part of a key stem entering a lock.
- Music. One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.
- Nautical. A belaying pin.
- Nautical. A thole pin.
- An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.
- A rolling pin.
- Sports.
- One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.
- A flagstick.
- See fall (sense ).
- pins Informal. The legs: spry for his age, and steady on his pins.
- Electronics. A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.
- Computer Science.
- Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.
- Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.
- Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.
- To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.
- To transfix.
- To place in a position of trusting dependence: He pinned his faith on an absurdity.
- To hold fast; immobilize: The passenger was pinned under the wreckage of the truck.
- Sports. To win a fall from in wrestling.
- To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.
Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
phrasal verbs:
pin down
- To fix or establish clearly: was finally able to pin down the cause of the disease.
- To force (someone) to give firm opinions or precise information: The reporter pinned the governor down on the issue of capital punishment.
- To attribute (a crime) to (someone): The murder was pinned on the wrong suspect.
[Middle English, from Old English pinn, perhaps from Latin pinna, feather.]
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pin (fastener)
In mechanical and civil engineering, a peg or bar designed to fasten machine and structural components together or to keep them aligned. Dowel pins are used to keep machine components aligned, sometimes without making a rigid joint (as in a pin-connected truss). Taper pins are used to fix the hub of a gear or a pulley to a shaft. Split cotter pins prevent nuts from turning on bolts and keep loosely fitting pins in place. The clevis pin has a ridge at one end and is kept in place by a cotter pin inserted through a hole in the other end. Many other types of pins are used in various machines.
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Acronym for p ersonal i dentification n umber. Customers use PIN numbers to identify themselves when using an ATM or making purchases with a debit card.
| PEG, PDF, PDA | |
| PMI, PPM, Pac Man Defense |
Idioms beginning with pin:
pink
pinch
pinch hitter
pinch pennies
pin money
pin on
pin one's hopes on
pin someone's ears back
See also hear a pin drop; on pins and needles.
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Definition: attach, hold in place
Antonyms: detach, unfasten, unlatch, unpin
n. a metal peg that holds down the activating lever of a hand grenade, preventing its explosion.
See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
One important folkloric function of pins is to symbolize attack. Witches were regularly suspected of using them in their destructive image magic, and of mysteriously introducing them into the bodies of their victims, who would then vomit them. The crew of a fishing smack, in the 1880s, were dismayed when a pinned-up parcel was brought aboard; the captain dropped the pins overboard one by one, at arm's length, explaining they were ‘spiteful witches’, and all subsequent misfortunes in that trip were blamed on the pins (N&Q 7s: 4 (1887), 165-6).
Pins were also much used in aggressive counterspells by those who thought themselves bewitched (see hearts and pins, witch bottles). In the fiercely worded love charm involving an animal blade-bone, pins were sometimes used instead of a knife to prick the bone, and there are tales from East Yorkshire and from Derbyshire of girls driving pins into a live frog as part of a charm to force a man to marry them (Hole, 1973: 90). They also serve as a medium of magical transference, for example when rubbed over a wart and then stuck in the ground, so that someone may tread on them and ‘catch’ the wart.
Pins were popular offerings in holy wells and wishing wells, though now coins are more usual; when so used, they were generally bent.
The best-known belief about finding pins is expressed in the rhyme (first recorded in 1842 and still current):
See a pin and pick it up,Opie and Tatem, 1989: 309-12.
All the day you'll have good luck;
See a pin and let it lay,
You'll have bad luck all the day.
1. A peg or bolt of wood, metal, or any other material, which is used to fasten or hold something in place, fasten things together, or serve as a point of attachment or support.
2. A round bar of steel used to connect members of a truss.
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At its simplest, a pin comprises no more than a thin strip of metal or bone, the shaft or shank, with a point at one end and a head at the other. Mainly used to secure clothing together. Many elaborate styles were developed, however, usually by ornamenting and expanding the head in some way.
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pin. One of the earliest human artifacts, pins were at first made of thorns, bone, or wood and were used as clothing fasteners, hairpins, and meat skewers. These long, single-shaft pins were early imitated in metal and were often tipped with ornamental knobs. The fibulae, prototype of the safety pin and probably one of the earliest applications of the spring coil, was popular from early antiquity through medieval times. It was the forerunner of the modern brooch through the hinged pin, which was developed by the Romans. Bent-wire hairpins are believed to have originated in England in the 16th cent.; the modern bobby pin was introduced in the 20th cent. In the 14th and 15th cent. in England the costliness and scarcity of plain pins caused Parliament to limit their sale to the first two days of January, for which women saved money all year-hence the term "pin money." In the 19th cent., with the fashion for enormous hats came the development of ornate jeweled hatpins.
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IN BRIEF: n. - A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; A sharp piece of metal used for fastening separate objects together.
He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.
— Herbert N. Casson
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sign description: The fingers of the G-hand closes at the left shoulder.
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A pin might have several meanings. Pins are small tools that help us sew something together, so perhaps we are dreaming about knitting something together. Pins can also hold a notice to a bulletin board, so perhaps the dream is trying to call our attention to something. We sometimes talk about "pinning blame" or "pinning on hopes" on someone. We can also "pin something down" or "walk on pins and needles."
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noun, N Amer
1: A leg; usu. inpl . (1530 —) .
2: A coupling-pin on a railway carriage, trailer, etc., esp. in phr. to pull the pin, to loose the coupling-pin, to uncouple; alsofig . (1860 —) .
J. Wambaugh An old man that should have pulled the pin years ago. Now he'd been here too long. He couldn't leave or he'd die (1972).verb
3:trans. Austral To cheat or cause trouble for. (1934 — 41).
noun, N Amer
1: A leg; usu. in
2: A coupling-pin on a railway carriage, trailer, etc., esp. in phr. to pull the pin, to loose the coupling-pin, to uncouple; also
J. Wambaugh An old man that should have pulled the pin years ago. Now he'd been here too long. He couldn't leave or he'd die (1972).
3:
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| pin-party, pin-splitter, pinch |
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pinning
A method of bone fixation, usually for treatment of fractures, in which metal pins are placed within the medullary cavity or anchored in bone. Two types of pin in common use are Steinmann and Rush. See also internal fixation.
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For other uses, see Pin (disambiguation).
A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together. It is usually made of steel, or on occasion copper or brass. It is formed by drawing out a thin wire, sharpening the tip, and adding a head. Nails are related, but are typically larger. In machines and engineering, pins are commonly used as pivots, hinges, shafts, jigs, and fixtures to locate or hold parts.
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History
Curved pins have been used for over four thousand years. Originally, they were fashioned out of iron and bone by the Sumerians and were used to hold clothes together. Later, these pins were also used to hold pages together by threading the needle through their top corner.[1]
Many late pins were made of brass, a hard metal. Steel was used later, as it was much stronger, but there was no easy process to keep steel from rusting, so higher quality pins were plated with nickel, but the metal would start to break down and flake off in high humidity, allowing rust to form. Steel pins were not that inconvenient for homemaking uses as they were usually only used temporarily while sewing garments.[2]
Other types
The push pin, with a large plastic head, was invented in 1903 by Edwin Moore and quickly became a success. These pins are also called "thumbtacks". There is also a new push pin called a "paper cricket".
Walter Hunt invented the safety pin by forming an eight-inch brass pin into a bent pin with a spring and guard. He sold the rights to his invention to pay a debt to a friend,[3] not knowing that he could have made millions of dollars.
In engineering and machine design, a pin is a machine element that secures the position of two or more parts of a machine relative to each other. A large variety of types has been known for a long time, the most commonly used are solid cylindrical pins, solid tapered pins, groove pins, slotted spring pins and spirally coiled spring pins.
See also
- Bobby pin
- Clevis pin
- Collar pin
- Cotter pin
- Hairpin
- Lapel pin
- Push pin
- Safety pin
- Spring pin
- Microperforation
- Hot needle perforation
- Paper cricket
- Split pin
Notes
- ^ Petroski, Henry, "From Pins to Paper Clips", The Evolution of Useful Things, Knopf, New York, 1993, p. 53
- ^ Bridgman, Roger. 1000 Inventions & Discoveries. New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing [1], 2002, p.126
- ^ Alfred, R (2008-10-04). "April 10, 1849: Safety Tech Gets to the Point, Baby". Wired. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0410#. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
References
- Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things, Chapter 4. ISBN 0-679-74039-2.
- Robert Parmley, Standard handbook of fastening and joining. 1st edition. Chapter 2. McGraw-Hill (New York). 1977. ISBN 0-07-048511-9
- http://www.mcmaster.com/#pins/
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Pin
Dansk (Danish)
n. - nål, stift, pind, ben på stikkontakt, stikker, kegle
v. tr. - hæfte, klemme fast, spidde, fastnagle, fæste
adj. - nåle-
idioms:
- on pins and needles være som på nåle, være utålmodig
- pin down indespærring
- pin it on somebody give nogen skylden for det
- pin money lommepenge
- PIN number PIN-kode
- pin on påhæfte
- pin one's faith on sætte al ens lid til
- pin one's hopes on sætte alle ens håb på
- pin up hæfte op, slå op
- pins and needles når en del af kroppen "sover"
abbr. - Police Information Network (politinetværk), Personal Identification Number (PIN-kode, personnummer, personkode)
Nederlands (Dutch)
speld, pin, pen, (mv) poten, stemsleutel/ -schroef, persoonlijk identificatienummer, sierspeld, biervaatje, vlaggenstok (golfspel), kegel (bowling etc.), roeipen, (vast)spelden, toeschrijven, (vast) pinnen, stil-/vasthouden, tegenstander vastzetten (schaakspel)
Français (French)
n. - épingle, (Élec) fiche, (Tech) goujon, goupille, (Méd) broche, barrette, quille (bowling), drapeau (de trou) (au golf), jambes (npl)
v. tr. - épingler, fixer qch avec une punaise sur, coincer (qn), imputer qch à qn, rejeter qch sur qn, (Mil, Sport) coincer, bloquer, coincer (aux échecs)
adj. - d'épingle
idioms:
- on pins and needles sur des chardons ardents
- pin down immobiliser, (fig) coincer, (lit) accrocher, épingler, (fig) identifier
- pin it on somebody coller la responsabilité à qn
- pin money argent de poche
- PIN number code bancaire confidentiel
- pin on épingler sur
- pin one's faith on avoir foi en, mettre ses espoirs dans
- pin one's hopes on avoir foi en, mettre ses espoirs dans
- pin up épingler, remonter (les cheveux)
- pins and needles (être) sur des charbons ardents
abbr. - (abrév = personal identification number) code confidentiel (pour carte bancaire)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Stecknadel, Anstecknadel, Kegel
v. - nageln, stecken, herunterdrücken, (Schach) festnageln
adj. - mit einer Pocke wie eine Stecknadel
idioms:
- on pins and needles nervös
- pin down festlegen, festnageln, festhalten
- pin it on somebody (ugs.) jmdm. etwas unterschieben
- pin money Taschengeld
- PIN number Geheimzahl
- pin on anheften
- pin one's faith on seine Hoffnungen auf jmdn. setzen
- pin one's hopes on seine Hoffnungen auf jmdn. setzen
- pin up hochstecken, heften
- pins and needles Kribbeln
abbr. - persönliche Kennummer (Personal Identification Number)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καρφίτσα, περόνη, γόμφος, κορύνη (κν. τσούνι), (πληθ.) (καθομ.) πόδια (κν. κανιά)
v. - καρφιτσώνω, στερεώνω με καρφίτσα, καρφώνω, πλακώνομαι, κρατώ ακίνητο, καθηλώνω, ακινητοποιώ
abbr. - (τεχνολ.) προσωπικός αριθμός αναγνώρισης
idioms:
- on pins and needles (που κάθεται) στα καρφιά
- pin down καθηλώνω
- pin it on somebody αποδίδω το φταίξιμο σε κάποιον, το φορτώνω σε κάποιον
- pin money χαρτζιλίκι
- PIN number (τεχνολ.) προσωπικός αριθμός αναγνώρισης
- pin on καρφιτσώνω, κοτσάρω
- pin one's faith on στηρίζω τις ελπίδες μου σε
- pin one's hopes on στηρίζω τις ελπίδες μου σε
- pin up καρφιτσώνω, πιάνω με καρφίτσες
- pins and needles μούδιασμα, μυρμηκίαση
Italiano (Italian)
codice segreto, appuntare con gli spilli, fissare, spillo, caviglia, spilla, cavicchio
idioms:
- on pins and needles angustiato
- pin down fissare, bloccare
- pin it on somebody affibbiare la responsabilità a qualcuno
- pin money soldi per le spese
- PIN number codice segreto
- pin on addossare la colpa a
- pin one's faith/hopes on affidarsi a
- pin up appuntare
- pins and needles formicolio
Português (Portuguese)
n. - percevejo (m), alfinete (m), pino (m), prego (m), grampo de cabelos (m), prendedor de roupas (m), rolo de macarrão (m)
v. - pregar, afixar, alfinetar, trancar
abbr. - senha de banco
idioms:
- on pins and needles ansioso, sobre um formigueiro
- pin down obrigar a cumprir
- pin it on somebody imputar a alguém
- pin money quantia pequena
- PIN number senha (de banco)
- pin on colocar a culpa (coloq.)
- pin one's faith/hopes on depositar as esperanças em
- pin up arregaçar
- pins and needles formigueiro
Русский (Russian)
персональный код, прокалывать, булавка, шпилька, штырь
idioms:
- on pins and needles как на иголках
- pin down определить, установить, связать обещанием, поймать
- pin it on somebody обвинять кого-либо
- pin money деньги на мелочи
- PIN number персональный код
- pin on приколоть, возлагать вину
- pin one's faith/hopes on возлагать надежды на
- pin up приколоть
- pins and needles как на иголках
Español (Spanish)
n. - alfiler, imperdible, chaveta, broche, prendedor, insignia, clavija, estaquilla, espiga, chinche, chincheta
v. tr. - prender (con alfileres), clavar, fijar, sujetar, pegar, colgar, enclavijar, tachonar
adj. - de alfiler, clavillo , pasador, etc.
idioms:
- on pins and needles sobre ascuas
- pin down sujetar a la fuerza, precisar, hacer que alguien concrete, encontrar, localizar, inmovilizar, sujetar
- pin it on somebody acusar, atribuir, imputar
- pin money dinero para gastos menores
- PIN number número de identificación personal
- pin on prender con alfiler, imputar, atribuir, prender un broche, poner, cifrar
- pin one's faith on poner sus esperanzas en algo
- pin one's hopes on poner sus esperanzas en algo
- pin up fijar, sujetar, sujetar con chinchetas, apuntalar, asegurar, sostener
- pins and needles hormigueo
abbr. - Número de Identificación Personal
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - nål, sprint, stift, bult, plugg, skruv, kägla, pl. ben (sl.)
v. - nåla fast, sätta fast, spetsa (på nål etc)
abbr. - personal identification number
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
个人识别号
大头针, 别针, 针, 钉住, 阻止, 别住, 针的, 销的, 钉的
idioms:
- on pins and needles 如坐针毡
- pin down 使受约束, 压制, 阻止
- pin it on somebody 归罪于...
- pin money 零用钱
- PIN number 密码
- pin on 加罪于, 怪罪于
- pin one's faith on 把全部信心寄托于
- pin one's hopes on 寄望于...
- pin up 钉住, 支撑, 加固
- pins and needles 手脚发麻
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 個人識別號
n. - 大頭針, 別針, 針
v. tr. - 釘住, 阻止, 別住
adj. - 針的, 銷的, 釘的
idioms:
- on pins and needles 如坐針氈
- pin down 使受約束, 壓制, 阻止
- pin it on somebody 歸罪於...
- pin money 零用錢
- PIN number 密碼
- pin on 加罪於, 怪罪於
- pin one's faith on 把全部信心寄託於
- pin one's hopes on 寄望於...
- pin up 釘住, 支撐, 加固
- pins and needles 手腳發麻
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 핀, 마개, (과녁의) 중심점, 다리
v. tr. - 핀[못]을 박다, 찔러서 붙이다, 아주 조금
adj. - 핀의, 표면이 입상인
idioms:
- pin down ...을 핀으로 꽂다, ...을 속박하다, 분명히 설명하다
- pin on 핀으로 꽂다
- pin up 핀업 사진, 미인
abbr. - personal identification number (은행카드의) 비밀번호
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ピン, 飾りピン, 掛けくぎ, ほんの少しも, 旗ざお, 糸巻き, 足
v. - ピンで留める, 押さえ付けておく, 縛り付ける
idioms:
- on pins and needles やきもきする
- pin down 動けないようにする, 縛り付ける, 束縛する
- pin it on somebody 誰かのせいにする
- pin money こづかい銭, 小金
- PIN number ピン番号
- pin on ピンで留める
- pin one's faith/hopes on 絶対的に信用する
- pin up ピンで留める, ピンで張る
- pins and needles ちくちくする感じ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) وتد, خابور, القارورة, دبوس, , مسمار, بروش (فعل) يشبك بدبوس, , يشبك بدبوس, , يثبت موضع ما (اختصار) مختصر : رقم التعريف الشخصي
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - סיכה, פין, מספר סודי (בכרטיס אשראי), סיכת-תכשיט, יתד, תג מחובר בסיכה, "מסמר" לחיבור עצם שנשברה, דבר פעוט-ערך
v. tr. - נעץ, חיבר בסיכה, ריתק, תפס במהירות, הטיל (אשמה, אחריות) על אדם
adj. - שהמירקם שלו מזכיר ראשי סיכות (עור)
abbr. - מספר זהות אישי
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