| pin | |
| 1. n. A sewing pin or ballhead pin: 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. n. A small nail with a head and a sharp point. | |
| 3. n. 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. n. (wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time. | |
| 5. n. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling. | |
| 6. n. (in plural pins; informal) A leg. | |
| I'm not so good on my pins these days. | |
| 7. n. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector. | |
| The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins. | |
| 8. n. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin. | |
| 9. n. (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 affilia | |
| 10. n. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack. | |
| 11. n. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole | |
| 12. n. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area) | |
| The shot landed right on the pin. | |
| 13. n. (dated) A mood, a state of being. | |
| 14. n. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink. | |
| 15. n. (medicine, obsolete) caligo | |
| 16. n. A thing of small value; a trifle. | |
| 17. n. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. | |
| 18. n. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. | |
| 19. n. The tenon of a dovetail joint. | |
| 20. n. (brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel. | |
| 21. n. (informal) A pinball machine. | |
| I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins. | |
| 22. v. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. | |
| 23. v. (chess usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. | |
| 24. v. (wrestling) To pin down (someone). | |
| 25. v. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. | |
| 26. v. (computing, GUI, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item. | |
| to pin a window to the Taskbar | |
| 27. v. (computing, 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. | |
| 28. v. alternative form of peen | |
