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pinhead

/pin-hed/US // ˈpɪnˌhɛd //UK // (ˈpɪnˌhɛd) //

针头,针头线脑,针头人,大头针

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the head of a pin.
    • : something very small or insignificant.
    • : Slang. a stupid person; nitwit.

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Examples

  • Every grain larger than half a millimeter under a microscope—that’s one-third the size of a pinhead—was closely inspected.

  • Joker appears to have jumped halfway across the galaxy and hit a target the size of a pinhead.

  • This discovery gives me a fit 48 of introspection and I discover that I am, indeed, a narrow-minded little pinhead.

  • Pinhead video-cameras cost less than a good restaurant dinner these days, so they're showing up everywhere.

  • Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position.

  • A marriage without "even a pinhead of bitterness" is a marriage without a pin-point of fault-finding, mental or oral.

  • This troubled him, but the trouble was, just then, a mere pinhead of blackness against the radiance of his spirit.