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钉子,针脚,针,销
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Definitions
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- : a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- : a short, slender piece of wire with a point at one end and a head at the other, for fastening things together.
- : any of various forms of fasteners or ornaments consisting essentially or partly of a pointed or penetrating wire or shaft: a jeweled pin.
- : a badge having a pointed bar or pin attached, by which it is fastened to the clothing: a fraternity pin.
- : Digital Technology. a photo or link that is bookmarked on Pinterest, a website and mobile application: She added 5 pins to her recipes board.
- : Machinery. a short metal rod, as a linchpin, driven through holes in adjacent parts, as a hub and an axle, to keep the parts together.a short cylindrical rod or tube, as a wrist pin or crankpin, joining two parts so as to permit them to move in one plane relative to each other.a short axle, as one on which a pulley rotates in a block.
- : the part of a cylindrical key stem entering a lock.
- : a clothespin.
- : a hairpin.
- : rolling pin.
- : a peg, nail, or stud marking the center of a target.
- : Bowling. any one of the rounded wooden clubs set up as the target in tenpins, ninepins, duckpins, etc.
- : Golf. the flag staff which identifies a hole.
- : any of the projecting knobs or rails on a pinball machine that serve as targets for the ball.
- : Informal. a human leg.
- : Music. peg.
- : Wrestling. a fall.
- : Nautical. an axle for a sheave of a block.belaying pin.
- : Carpentry. a tenon in a dovetail joint; dovetail.
- : a very small amount; a trifle: Such insincere advice isn't worth a pin.
- : Chess. the immobilization of an enemy piece by attacking with one's queen, rook, or bishop.
- : Electronics. a pin-shaped connection, as the terminals on the base of an electron tube or the connections on an integrated circuit.
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pinned, pin·ning.
- : to fasten or attach with or as with a pin or pins: to pin two pieces of cloth together.
- : to hold fast in a spot or position: The debris pinned him down.
- : to transfix or mount with a pin or the like: to pin a flower as a botanical specimen.
- : Chess. to immobilize by placing one's queen, rook, or bishop in a position to check the exposed king or capture a valuable piece if the pinned piece were moved.
- : Wrestling. to secure a fall over one's opponent.
- : Digital Technology. to bookmark on Pinterest, a website and mobile application: He pinned a jacket from Macy's on his fashion board. to fix to the top of a feed: She pinned a tweet about her forthcoming book to the top of her Twitter feed.
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pinned, pin·ning.
- : Digital Technology. to bookmark a photo or link on Pinterest: I've been pinning a lot lately.
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- : pin down, to bind or hold to a course of action, a promise, etc.to force to deal with a situation or to come to a decision: We tried to pin him down for a definite answer, but he was too evasive for us.
- : pin in, to fill with spalls.
- : pin up, to make level or plumb with wedges.
Phrases
- pin back one's ears
- pin down
- pin money
- pin on
- pin one's heart on
- pin one's hopes on
- pin someone's ears back
- hear a pin drop
- on pins and needles
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It was a massive hit, and the safety-pin dress a brilliant cartoonish cherry on top of it.
The online community of tattooed pin-up models turned 13 this year.
In other news, black and white pin-up shots are now officially less valuable than life-size Tiger Beat tear outs.
She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.
Lorna planted several pin flags, then we continued cruising.
Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!
He held the pin delicately between finger and thumb, and controlled her with his roguish eyes.
The scolex is about the size of a pin-head, and is surrounded by four sucking discs, but has no hooklets (Fig. 96).
A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.
Welcome jerked himself away from the book, whirled around on his wooden pin and pointed his knife at the book-shelves.