Definitions for PIN

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PIN pin

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IPA: /pɪn/

Pin is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in PIN (inp).

Definitions for PIN

noun

1. a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
2. a short, slender piece of wire with a point at one end and a head at the other, for fastening things together.
3. any of various forms of fasteners or ornaments consisting essentially or partly of a pointed or penetrating wire or shaft (often used in combination):
4. a badge having a pointed bar or pin attached, by which it is fastened to the clothing:
5. Digital Technology. a photo or link that is bookmarked on Pinterest, a website and mobile application:
6. 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.
7. the part of a cylindrical key stem entering a lock.
8. a clothespin.
9. a hairpin.
10. rolling pin.
11. a peg, nail, or stud marking the center of a target.
12. Bowling. any one of the rounded wooden clubs set up as the target in tenpins, ninepins, duckpins, etc.
13. Golf. the flag staff which identifies a hole.
14. any of the projecting knobs or rails on a pinball machine that serve as targets for the ball.
15. Informal. a human leg.
16. Music. peg (def 5).
17. Wrestling. a fall.
18. Nautical. an axle for a sheave of a block. belaying pin.
19. Carpentry. a tenon in a dovetail joint; dovetail.
20. a very small amount; a trifle:
21. Chess. the immobilization of an enemy piece by attacking with one's queen, rook, or bishop.
22. Electronics. a pin-shaped connection, as the terminals on the base of an electron tube or the connections on an integrated circuit.
23. a number assigned to an individual, used to establish identity in order to gain access to a computer system via an automatic teller machine, a point-of-sale terminal, or other device.

Idioms

1. get pinned, (of a young woman) to receive a male student's fraternity pin as a symbol of his affection and fidelity, usually symbolizing that the couple is going steady or plans to become engaged. (of a young couple) to become formally pledged to one another, though not yet engaged, by the bestowing of such a pin or the exchange of pins.
2. pin something on someone, Informal. to ascribe the blame or guilt for something to a person; show someone to be culpable:
3. pull the pin, Informal. to end a relationship, project, program, or the like, because of lack of continuing interest, success, funds, etc.

Verb phrases

1. pin down, to bind or hold to a course of action, a promise, etc. to force (someone) to deal with a situation or to come to a decision:
2. pin in, to fill (gaps in a rubble wall, etc.) with spalls.
3. pin up, to make (a piece of masonry) level or plumb with wedges.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or attach with or as with a pin or pins:
2. to hold fast in a spot or position (sometimes followed by down):
3. to transfix or mount with a pin or the like:
4. Chess. to immobilize (an enemy piece) 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.
5. Wrestling. to secure a fall over one's opponent.
6. Digital Technology. to bookmark (a photo or link) on Pinterest, a website and mobile application: to fix (a social media post) to the top of a feed:

verb (used without object)

1. Digital Technology. to bookmark a photo or link on Pinterest:

Origin of PIN

before 1100; (noun) Middle English pinne, Old English pinn “peg”; cognate with Dutch pin, German Pinne, Old Norse pinni; perhaps frrom Latin pinna “feather, quill” (see

Examples for PIN

She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.

"'Twould be like hunting for a pin in a haystack," said the Rev. Hilary Jones.

After that she must pin it on, and slip in to stand before his mirror and inspect the result.

You wear a pin that adjusts the temperature, lighting, décor, and entertainment to your preference.

While that cause may be safely discarded, the correct one is hard to pin down.

He let the pestle fall from his hand and jumped as if he had been stuck with a pin.

At one point in the Introduction, the coach opines, “history is hard to pin down.”

He's too honest entirely to stale the value of a pin, let alone a carpetbag.

And if there was a villain on whom to pin this whole struggle—it would be our inner demons.

A pin might have been heard falling among us, for this sounded ominous.