pin /pin/

1. A piece of wood or of metal used for fastening things together
2. A peg or nail
3. A sharp-pointed piece of wire with a rounded head for fastening clothes, etc
4. An ornamental elaboration of this
5. A cylindrical part inserted into something, such as the stem of a key, or part of a lock that a hollow-stemmed key fits
6. Any of the metal projections on an electric plug
7. The projecting part of a dovetail joint
8. A peg aimed at in quoits
9. A peg in the centre of an archery target
10. The rod of a golf flag
11. A skittle or ninepin
12. A chess piece (obsolete)
13. A tuning peg in a stringed instrument
14. A measuring peg in a drinking cup
15. A degree, stage, pitch
16. A leg (informal)
17. A peak
18. The projecting bone of the hip
19. A hard spot or excrescence
20. A cask of 41/2 gallons
21. Short for clothes-pin, rolling pin, tirling-pin, etc
22. An act of pinning or state of being pinned
23. Anything of little value

1. To fasten with a pin
2. To fix, to fasten, to enclose, to hold down (figurative)
3. To make a small hole in
4. To insert chips of stone between the stones of
5. To attack an opponent's piece which is unable to move without exposing a more valuable piece to attack (chess)

pinnˈer noun

1. Someone who pins
2. A pin-maker
3. A pinafore
4. A headdress with lappets flying loose
5. One of these lappets

pinnˈing noun

1. A fastening
2. A chip of stone, etc, inserted in a joint of masonry

pinˈball noun

1. A form of bagatelle
2. A scoring game, played on a slot machine, in which a ball runs down a sloping board set with pins or other targets

pinˈboard noun

A board for pinning notices, pictures, etc on

pinˈ-buttˈock noun (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well)

A sharp, pointed buttock

pinˈcase noun (obsolete).

pin curl noun

A lock of hair made to curl by winding it around one's finger, etc, and securing it with a hairpin

pinˈcushion noun

A small pad for holding pins

pinˈdown noun

A discredited technique for controlling and disciplining disruptive children, esp teenagers, in residential care, involving solitary confinement and removal of clothing other than nightwear or underwear, and sometimes physical punishment and mental harassment (also adjective)

pinˈ-dust noun

Brass filings, a product of pin-making

pinˈ-eyed adjective (botany)

Long-styled, with the stigma like a pinhead in the throat of the corolla (esp of a Primula)

pin feather noun

A young, unexpanded feather

pinˈ-feathered adjective

pinˈ-fire adjective

(of a firearm) discharged by a pin driven into the fulminate

pinˈfish noun

A spiny fish of various kinds

pinˈhead noun

1. The head of a pin
2. Anything very small
3. A stupid person (slang)

pinˈhole noun

A hole for or made by a pin, or such as a pin might make

pinhole camera noun

pinhole glasses plural noun

Spectacles, consisting of a usu plastic opaque lens with many perforations, considered beneficial in improving a variety of visual defects by reducing the amount of light reaching the eye

pinhole photography noun

The taking of photographs by the use of a pinhole instead of a lens

pinˈhooker noun (slang)

A speculator who buys up foals hoping to make a profit on them when selling them as yearlings for racing

pinˈ-leg noun (Scot)

A wooden leg

pinˈ-maker noun

pinˈ-making noun

pinˈ-man noun

1. A seller of pins
2. A matchstick drawing, in which the limbs and body are represented by single lines

pin money noun

1. Orig money allotted by a man to his wife or female dependants for private expenses
2. Extra money earned by a man or woman to spend on incidental or luxury items
3. A trifling amount of money

pinˈpoint noun

1. The point of a pin
2. Anything very sharp or minute

transitive verb

To place or define very exactly

pinˈprick noun

1. The prick of a pin
2. A petty irritation, or something done to irritate

pinˈstripe noun

1. A very narrow stripe in cloth
2. Cloth with such stripes
3. A garment made of such cloth, esp a suit (informal)

pinˈstriped adjective

1. (of fabric or garments) having pinstripes
2. (of a person) wearing a pinstriped suit (informal)

pinˈtable noun

A pinball machine

pinˈtail noun

1. A type of duck, Anas acuta, with a pointed tail
2. A sand grouse

pinˈtailed adjective

Having a long, narrow tail

pin tuck noun

A very narrow ornamental tuck

pinˈ-up adjective

(of a person) such as might have their portrait pinned up on a wall for admiration

noun

1. A person of such a kind
2. A portrait or photograph so pinned up for admiration

pinˈwheel noun

1. A wheel with pins at right angles to its plane, to lift the hammer of a striking clock
2. A paper toy windmill
3. A revolving firework

pinˈworm noun

A parasitic nematode

a merry pin (archaic)

A merry mood

on pins and needles

In agitated expectancy

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