pin1 nounpin2 verb
pinpin1 /pɪn/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINpin1
Origin:
Old English pinnEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After a skiing accident, Dan had a pin inserted in his wrist.
- But I busted the ball right in the middle of the green, maybe twenty feet past the pin.
- Drape half of the dough over the rolling pin, then transfer to the pie pan.
- Edward Cody, a World Civilization teacher, kept a map of the world with pins marking his students' birthplaces.
- Holding a rolling pin and determined to have the last laugh.
- Included in the pack are 20 specially tempered steel pins, 20 plastic caps, and a driving device.
- Loose chips will snap into place and you will hear a cracking sound as the pins are pushed deeper into the socket.
- The output enable pin of IC5 is controlled by the chip select line of the computer.
- Then it was belts, circle pins.
Longman Language Activatorwords for describing a place that is quiet
if a place is quiet , there is not much noise there: · Inside the church it was quiet and peaceful.· David and I found a quiet corner where we could talk.· I usually work in the dining room because it's the quietest room in the house.
if a place is silent , there is no noise at all - used especially in stories or descriptions of events: · The streets of the city were silent in the moonlight.· Apart from the humming of the bees, all was silent and still.
if you say you could hear a pin drop , you mean it is very quiet, especially because no one is talking, and even a very small sound would be heard clearly: · It was so quiet in the hall you could hear a pin drop.· After he finished telling the story you could have heard a pin drop.
WORD SETSalternator, nounarc, nounblow, verbcapacitor, nouncathode, nouncell, nouncharge, nouncharge, verbcharger, nouncircuit, nouncircuit board, nouncircuit breaker, nouncircuitry, nouncoil, nouncondenser, nounconnection, nouncontact, nouncord, nouncordless, adjectivecurrent, nounDC, dimmer, noundirect current, noundischarge, verbdischarge, nounE, earth, nounearth, verbelectric, adjectiveelectrician, nounelectricity, nounelectrics, nounelectrode, nounelectronic, adjectiveelectronics, nounfuel cell, nounfuse, verbfuse box, nounfused, adjectivegrid, nounlive, adjectivelive wire, nounmagic eye, nounmagneto, nounnegative, adjectiveneutral, adjectivenoise, nounoscillate, verboscillator, nounoutlet, nounphotoelectric, adjectivephotoelectric cell, nounpin, nounplug, nounpoint, nounpre-set, adjectiveprinted circuit, nounprogramme, nounprogramme, verbpulse, nounremote control, nounresistance, nounresistor, nounscan, verbscanner, nounshort, nounshort, verbshort circuit, nounshort-circuit, verbsocket, nounsolid-state, adjectivesonar, nounsuperconductivity, nounsuperconductor, nounterminal, nountime switch, nountoggle switch, nountorch, nountransformer, nountransistor, nounvacuum tube, nounvalve, nounW, wire, nounwiring, nounzapper, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(also lay/place the blame on somebody written) (=blame someone, especially when it is not their fault)· Don’t try to put the blame on me.· Everyone laid the blame for the crisis on the government.
(=hope for one thing that everything else depends on)· After a difficult year, the company is pinning its hopes on its new range of products.
I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.· It hung glittering like early morning cobwebs on her rolling pin.· Holding a rolling pin and determined to have the last laugh.· Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling.· Last drops: use a rolling pin to squeeze the remains out of tubes of toothpaste.· When cold, break bread pieces into a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin until fine.· Roll out with a lightly floured rolling pin to a rectangle the same size as the tin.· Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin, then carefully transfer to the tin.· Everything was recovered except a rolling pin.
NOUN· A drawing pin through the pocket ensures the holder does not fall out; comfort, security and peace at last.· If you happen to.sit on a drawing pin and jump up the objective is a rear-end one.· Using drawing pins, attach the top edge to the pelmet board.
· Well you could have heard a pin drop.· The auditorium was quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
· You can pick up shoulder patches, lapel pins, badges, and more.· Each participant received a packet including information guides, maps, a Super Bowl cap and a Share the Warmth lapel pin.· I packed my AK-47 lapel pin, my polyester-blend suit and some white shoes for sporty occasions.· Writer Tim Cahill likes to hand out commemorative lapel pins.
· It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money.
· I love those ones where there's a piece of cloth just with a safety pin or something like that.· One of its straps is broken and pinned with two safety pins.· The maroon dress was neatly folded, and the coral necklace carefully pinned to the bodice with a large safety pin.· By grade eight, she was putting safety pins in her legs and fastening them.· Later the gadget acquired a popular name - the safety pin - and made some one else very rich.· Heating an implement made of a straightened safety pin, he speared the bugs, then brought them to the candle flame.· A dummy made of a diving suit, sitting in a wheelchair and wrapped with cloth was stuck with safety pins.· Not money, and not technology unless it was as fundamental as safety pins.
· Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining.· A diamond tie pin glittered at his throat.· Shoving his hands into the pockets of his overcoat he felt the little box that contained the tie pin.
VERB· Well you could have heard a pin drop.· Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop, which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious.· The auditorium was quiet enough to hear a pin drop.· You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one.
· Derek Jefferson held the pin for Harley's approach putt of about fifty feet.· He asked his caddie to hold the pin.· Yet another x-rated scene shows her in suspenders lying on a kitchen table, holding a rolling-pin.
· Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket.· Tom kept fooling with my hair, pulling out one pin after another.· I pulled the pin out of the grenade.· Polly said, pulling the pins out of her hair.
· He picked it up and started to remove all the pins.
· The owner picked up a metal rolling pin, whereupon the man took off his metal studded belt.· Drape half of the dough over the rolling pin, then transfer to the pie pan.· For this purpose, rolling pins, cutters of different shapes and sizes, and cake tins should be available.· Some woman who bats him over the head with a rolling pin.· Yet another x-rated scene shows her in suspenders lying on a kitchen table, holding a rolling-pin.· Then you take out your rolling pin and flatten it.· Gently roll with a rolling pin to secure.· Roll out dough using rolling pin and then fingers to spread it on to the prepared pan.
· A dummy made of a diving suit, sitting in a wheelchair and wrapped with cloth was stuck with safety pins.
· Never use rusty pins as they will mark the fabric.· Roll out dough using rolling pin and then fingers to spread it on to the prepared pan.· Last drops: use a rolling pin to squeeze the remains out of tubes of toothpaste.· Crush biscuits either in a polythene bag using a rolling pin, or in a food processor.· Alternatively, you could use a three pin plug with a built-in thermostat, available from electrical retailers.· Specimens from unconsolidated gravels are not difficult to clean, any adherent sand grains being easily removed using a stout pin.· Carefully lift the pastry lid over the pie using a rolling pin to support and arrange over the cherries.
· Cranston wears pin striped suit, Crombie overcoat and refulgent black shoes.· But then she never wore any of the pins or anything else.· He stopped wearing the pins last year after press inquiries were made concerning the propriety of it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1- After he finished telling the story you could have heard a pin drop.
- It was so quiet in the hall you could hear a pin drop.
- You could hear a pin drop in the auditorium during Norvell's speech.
- I was on pins and needles until I found out I'd won.
for joining/fastening a)a short thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth while making clothes b)a thin piece of metal used to fasten things together, especially broken bones2jewellery American English a piece of metal, sometimes containing jewels, that you fasten to your clothes to wear as a decoration SYN brooch British English3electrical British English one of the pieces of metal that sticks out of an electric plug: a three-pin plug4bowling one of the bottle-shaped objects that you try to knock down in a game of bowling5you could hear a pin drop spoken used to say that it is very quiet and no one is speaking6part of bomb a short piece of metal which you pull out of a hand grenade to make it explode a short time later7golf a metal stick with a flag at the top which marks the holes on a golf course8for two pins I’d ... British English old-fashioned used to say that you would like to do something to someone because they have annoyed you: For two pins, I’d just send them all home.9pins [plural] British English informal legs → drawing pin, pin money, pins and needles(1), rolling pin, safety pinpin1 nounpin2 verb
pinpin2 ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle pinned, present participle pinning) [transitive always + adverb/preposition] VERB TABLE
pin
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | pin |
| he, she, it | pins | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pinned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pinned |
| he, she, it | has pinned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pinned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pin |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pinned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am pinning |
| he, she, it | is pinning | |
| you, we, they | are pinning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was pinning |
| you, we, they | were pinning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pinning |
| he, she, it | has been pinning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pinning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pinning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pinning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A note was pinned on the door of his office.
- Each delegate wore a name tag pinned to their lapel.
- He had pinned a red rose to his jacket.
- One of the straps was pinned in place with two safety pins.
- Although we will clarify it in the course of this study, multimedia is hard to pin down to a rigid definition.
- Geller is pinning primary hopes on getting the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal on a procedural point.
- Halcrows say they are stabilising the soil by pinning down the hillsides.
- She sobbed and fought and screamed but Martin pinned her down with his new strength.
- The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes.
- This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.
- You need a lot of time to yourself in order to explore your dreams, rather than being pinned to the work place.
Longman Language Activatorto attach one thing to another so that it stays in position
to join one thing to another, especially something larger, using glue, string, wires etc to keep it there: · Get your receipt, attach it, and send it in .attach something to something: · A copy of my resumé is attached to this letter.· The doctor will attach a monitor to your stomach so that she can listen to the baby's heart.
to attach one thing to another firmly, but in a way that makes it easy to remove again: · Passengers should keep their seat belts fastened until the warning light is extinguished.fasten something to something: · Christine fastened the brooch to her dress.· Make sure the wires are properly fastened to the unit.fasten something on/around/over etc: · Divers fasten weights around their waists to help them stay under water.· She fastened her broad hat beneath her chin.
British to attach one thing to another so that it will stay permanently in this position, for example by using nails, screws, or strong glue: fix something to something: · He fixed the lamp to the wall above the bed with a couple of screws.· I don't think it's fixed to the ceiling very securely.fix something on something: · I tried to fix them on the door, but they wouldn't stay.
to attach one thing to another using nails: nail something to something: · A large American flag is nailed to the wall above the bed.· The desks in all the classrooms were nailed to the floor.nail something on/together/down etc: · We watched as Dad nailed the fence panels together.· I got a hammer and nailed down the floorboards.· The windows had been nailed shut.
to attach something using a pin , especially to your clothes: pin something to: · He had pinned a red rose to his jacket.· Each delegate wore a name tag pinned to their lapel. pin something on/up/together etc: · One of the straps was pinned in place with two safety pins.· A note was pinned on the door of his office.
to deliberately try to make someone seem guilty when they are not also fit up/stitch up British informal to deliberately make it seem that someone is guilty of a crime that they are not really guilty of: set up somebody: · He wasn't guilty of the fraud. He'd been set up by his business rivals.set somebody up: · Cahill has always protested his innocence, and insists that someone set him up.
to make someone seem guilty of a crime, especially by providing something that seems like proof: · That's not my handwriting and it's not my signature! I've been framed.· Healey agreed to defend two young men, who were being framed in a local murder case. frame for: · The accused told the court that the police tried to frame him for assault.
informal to say that someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something wrong, especially when this is not true: · The police pinned the murder on two men who were later proved to be innocent.· You're not going to pin it on me! I was a hundred miles away at the time.
to put something such as illegal drugs or stolen goods into someone's house or into their pocket, in order to make it seem that they are guilty of a crime: · The police found the stolen cameras in his flat, but he insisted they had been planted.plant something on somebody: · Someone planted the drugs on her before she left the country.
to hope that something will happen or that something is true · See you soon, I hope!· Even when everyone else thought he was dead, Julie never stopped hoping.hope (that) · We hurried out of the building, hoping that no one would see us leave.hope to do something · Bob's hoping to travel to Africa next year.hope for · I'm hoping for a better salary in my next job.I hope so spoken · "Have we got enough money for the rent?'' "I don't know. I hope so.''hope and pray · She could only hope and pray that Liza would be back to her normal self the next time she saw her.
hoping that something good is likely to happen: · We don't know if Gascoigne will be fit to play in Saturday's game, but we're all hopeful.hopeful (that): · I'm quite hopeful that I'll get the job.hopeful about: · James felt more hopeful about his future after his chat with his professor.be hopeful of (doing) something British: · The local police are hopeful of catching those responsible for the graffiti.
use this to say that you hope that something will happen the way you want, when you cannot do anything to affect what happens: · "Have you had your test results yet?'' "No. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.''· Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that this idea of yours works.
to hope that a situation will end well, when it is possible that something might go wrong: · He never uses a recipe. He just throws all kinds of food into a pan and hopes for the best.· Every expectant mother goes into labour hoping for the best
British /in hopes that American if you do something in the hope that it will have a good result, you do it because you hope it will make something good happen: · He showed me a photo of his wife, in the hope that I might have seen her.· He was rejecting Nancy in hopes that something better might develop with Lydia.
hoping and expecting that everything will happen in the best way possible: · Although his lawyers were optimistic, they couldn't be sure about the final outcome of the trial.· The Democrats went into this election in an optimistic mood.optimistic about: · I am very optimistic about the future of our company.cautiously optimistic (=optimistic, but realizing that a good result is not definite): · The patient is still in a critical condition but doctors say they are cautiously optimistic that he will make a full recovery.
to hope that one particular thing will happen, because your happiness or all your other plans depend on this: · Sue is pinning all her hopes on getting this job.· ''I do hope she remembers.'' ''Don't pin your hopes on it'', warned David.
to be very hopeful and excited about something, so that you would be very disappointed if it did not happen: have high hopes of doing something: · Sam has high hopes of going to university next year.· Despite our differences, we came here with high hopes of signing a new treaty.have high hopes for: · Japanese car manufacturers have high hopes for increased profits in Europe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The flavour was hard to pin down. Don’t try to pin the blame on me!COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The flavour was hard to pin down. Don’t try to pin the blame on me! (also lay/place the blame on somebody written) (=blame someone, especially when it is not their fault)· Don’t try to put the blame on me.· Everyone laid the blame for the crisis on the government.
(=hope for one thing that everything else depends on)· After a difficult year, the company is pinning its hopes on its new range of products.
I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.· We would completely pin back a side for the first 20 mins, and invariably crack them.· She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.· Hair was pinned back to give height and volume to the crown.· She was straining against her chain with her lips curled over her teeth and her ears pinned back.· Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant.
· Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs.· Charlie has them completely pinned down.· It is telling that economists have so far found the precise productivity benefits of information technology difficult to pin down and measure.· When we decided we had them pinned down, they called in an air strike.· Halcrows say they are stabilising the soil by pinning down the hillsides.· Our whole company was pinned down.· On the other hand, he was extremely difficult to pin down to any conclusion.· It is hard to pin down something as elusive as a good school climate.
· Official invitations to all les Girls would be pinned up on the stage doorkeeper's noticeboard.· The cape was my college graduation gown pinned up so he could walk, and now the pins were coming loose.· She had pinned up her heavy tawny hair on top of her head but she still felt hot.· Instead of answering she walked to the bulletin board and pinned up the clipping.· These were the kind of people I had pinned up on my bedroom wall, and here I was meeting them.· You pin up a wall chart listing how many calories you eat each day.· We pin up quality ditties on corporate walls to enthuse staff of our good and noble intentions.· You pin up another one recording how many sit-ups you managed.
NOUN· In so doing, he pins the blame on the symptoms of our present stasis, not its causes.· The first is generated by people fighting to pin blame upon one another when money is lost.· And how would it be possible, in any event, to pin the blame on an individual?· Many observers pin the blame on the army, whose all-powerful generals are seeing their grip weaken.· Judgment was reserved yesterday on the first legal moves to pin the blame for the contamination.
· It is a nave aspirant party leader, though, who pins his faith to gratitude.· The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument, were beaten back every time.· But now he has to pin his faith on the emerging talent and pray they continue to make progress.
· The marquis pinned her to the ground by her shoulders, sitting astride her so that she couldn't move.· Limbs fall off trees and pin you to the ground.· There seemed to be a weight on her chest, pinning her to the ground and not letting her breathe.· She was suffocating, it was squashing her, pinning her to the ground.· Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground.
· And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap.· Now that they were a block from church she pulled off the kerchief and slipped the bobby pins from her hair.· Nor had she pinned her hair securely; it was beginning to break loose.· Her red lipstick was smudged and she hadn't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides.· Then Andrew made his way back to Nero, and Topaz began to pin up her hair.· She might have pinned up her hair in her sleep, it was so untidy.
· He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle.· He seems to pin his hopes on it.· Geller is pinning primary hopes on getting the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal on a procedural point.· Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.· Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.· This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.· Duregar pinned his hopes on Dwarven determination to keep the army safe.
· You can pin it on the wall.· The map of the New York City subway system was pinned to the wall above his bed.· Old Wang first learned the habit of reading newspapers closely during the Cultural Revolution and has several cuttings pinned on the wall.· I picked him up and pinned him against the wall, holding him there until he broke down and cried.· You pin up a wall chart listing how many calories you eat each day.· On at least one occasion, demonstrators were pinned against the wall to make it easier to assault them.· As they work, roughs are pinned to the wall where they remain until the following day.· A chart was pinned to the wall stating body-fat percentages and a less-than-subtle verdict.
VERB· Remorse had drawn Thomas there and it kept him pinned, though he was also wild for flight.· Regardless of your actions, the little group would keep the flirt label pinned on you because of their own baggage.· The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table, diligent and creative.· No: three Counsellors were concentrating on him, keeping him pinned behind his shield of stones.· He had just enough gas to keep me pinned into Score Quick.· Reports from the lead platoons indicated that the artillery fire was being most effective in keeping the enemy pinned down.
· She tried to pin her thoughts elsewhere, but found that they always boomeranged back.· However, it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down.· Let them try to pin it on her!· There was something about those little feet, Guy thought suddenly, trying to pin down the memory.· Tell him how you feel but don't try to pin him down.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to fasten something somewhere, or to join two things together, using a pinpin something to/on something- Duregar pinned his hopes on Dwarven determination to keep the army safe.
- He seems to pin his hopes on it.
- Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost.
- Stores, pinning their hopes on a brighter Christmas, were cheerful.
- This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.
- Those who pin their hopes on highly specified, short range solutions may or may not get it right.
- Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.
- After he finished telling the story you could have heard a pin drop.
- It was so quiet in the hall you could hear a pin drop.
- You could hear a pin drop in the auditorium during Norvell's speech.
- I was on pins and needles until I found out I'd won.
Can you pin this to the notice board? He pinned the name tag on his jacket.pin something up She had photos of her kids pinned up next to her desk.2to make someone unable to move by putting a lot of pressure or weight on thempin somebody/something to something He pinned her arms to her sides.pin somebody against something Albert got him pinned against the wall.pin somebody down They managed to pin him down until the police arrived.be pinned under/beneath something Her body was pinned under the weight of the car.pin somebody/something ↔ down phrasal verb1to make someone give clear details or make a definite decision about somethingpin down to Did you manage to pin him down to a definite date? He’s impossible to pin down.2to understand something clearly or be able to describe it exactlyhard/difficult to pin down The flavour was hard to pin down.3if soldiers etc involved in fighting are pinned down, they cannot move from their position because someone is shooting at them: The rebels have been pinned down in a camp to the south of the river.pin something on somebody/something phrasal verb1to blame someone for something, often unfairly: Don’t try to pin the blame on me! They’re trying to pin the murder on the boyfriend.2pin your hopes/faith on something/somebody to hope that something will happen or someone will help you, because all your plans depend on this: Chris is pinning his hopes on getting into Yale.