pin
pin
- n a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- n when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- n small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- n a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
- n informal terms for the leg
- n axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- n 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
- n flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- n a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- n a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- n a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- v to hold fast or prevent from moving
The child was pinned under the fallen tree - v attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins
pin the needle to the shirt". "pin the blame on the innocent man - v pierce with a pin
pin down the butterfly - v immobilize a piece
- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama tours the Chrysler Stamping Plant in Sterling Height, Michigan, on Wednesday, May 14.
- With a contribution of $100,000 from the Pope, and the promise of $900,000 from Boston's Cardinal Richard Gushing, Archbishop Yu-pin hopes to make Formosa's University of Fu-jen .
- Bishop Paul Yu-pin thinks China will need not fewer than 100,000 American men and women in her reconstruction job.