pin /pɪn/ — RTL Dictionary

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noun

Plural noun:

pins

1.
A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
2.
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
3.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
4.
(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
5.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
6.
(in plural, informal)(informal, in the plural) A leg.
I'm not so good on my pins these days.
7.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
8.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
9.
(US)A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
Đồng nghĩa: lapel pin, badge
10.
(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
11.
(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
12.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
The shot landed right on the pin.

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verb

V_es/s

pins

V_ing/Gerund

pinning

V_ed/pp

pinned

1.
(often)(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
2.
(chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
3.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
He pinned his opponent on the mat.
4.
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
5.
(transitive)(graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
to pin a folder to the taskbar
6.
(transitive)(programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
7.
(transitive)To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
Đồng nghĩa: peg
8.
(ambitransitive, slang)(bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
9.
(backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
10.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of peen.

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Đồng nghĩa

lapel pinbadge peg nail tack skittle broochsmall nail nail, tackcylinder of wood or metal peggames skittlejewellery fastened with a pin brooch

Trái nghĩa

unpin

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (pin, peg, bolt), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge). Related to pen (enclosure).