Found 3 items, similar to pin.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: pin cocok, lencana, mencantum, mencocok, mencocokkan, peniti
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pin pin n 1: a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment 2: when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: fall] 3: small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. [syn: peg] 4: a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts [syn: personal identification number, PIN number ] 5: informal terms of the leg; “fever left him weak on his sticks” [syn: peg, stick] 6: axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns [syn: pivot] 7: cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown 8: flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green [syn: flag] 9: a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things 10: a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: peg, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock] 11: a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in groups as a target [syn: bowling pin] [also: pinning, pinned] pin v 1: to hold fast or prevent from moving; “The child was pinned under the fallen tree” [syn: trap, immobilize, immobilise] 2: attach or fasten with pins [ant: unpin] 3: pierce with a pin; “pin down the butterfly” 4: immobilize a piece [also: pinning, pinned]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pin Pin \Pin\, v. t. (Metal Working) To peen. [1913 Webster] Pin \Pin\, v. t. [Cf. Pen to confine, or Pinfold.] To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. [1913 Webster] Pin \Pin\, n. [OE. pinne, AS. pinn a pin, peg; cf. D. pin, G. pinne, Icel. pinni, W. pin, Gael. & Ir. pinne; all fr. L. pinna a pinnacle, pin, feather, perhaps orig. a different word from pinna feather. Cf. Fin of a fish, Pen a feather.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. [1913 Webster] With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. [1913 Webster] He . . . did not care a pin for her. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] 4. That which resembles a pin in its form or use; as: (a) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. (b) A linchpin. (c) A rolling-pin. (d) A clothespin. (e) (Mach.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle. (f) (Joinery) The tenon of a dovetail joint. [1913 Webster] 5. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink. [1913 Webster] 6. The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] “The very pin of his heart cleft.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. Mood; humor. [Obs.] “In merry pin.” --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 8. (Med.) Caligo. See Caligo. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin. [1913 Webster] 10. The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. Pin grass. (Bot.) See Alfilaria. Pin hole, a small hole made by a pin; hence, any very small aperture or perforation. Pin lock, a lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers. Pin money, an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure. Pin rail (Naut.), a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to the fife rail. Called also pin rack. Pin wheel. (a) A contrate wheel in which the cogs are cylindrical pins. (b) (Fireworks) A small coil which revolves on a common pin and makes a wheel of yellow or colored fire. [1913 Webster] Pin \Pin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinning.] [See Pin, n.] To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. “As if she would pin her to her heart.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] To pin one's faith upon, to depend upon; to trust to. [1913 Webster]