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The Meaning of pin
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(v. t.) To peen.
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(v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
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(n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
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(n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
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(n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
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(n.) A linchpin.
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(n.) A rolling-pin.
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(n.) A clothespin.
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(n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
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(n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
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(n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
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(n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
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(n.) Mood; humor.
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(n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
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(n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
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(n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
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(n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Synonyms
fall
,
flag
,
stick
,
personal identification number
,
pin tumbler
,
pivot
,
rowlock
,
tholepin
,
oarlock
,
peg
,
thole
,
bowling pin
,
crepuscule
,
dip
,
surrender
,
twilight
,
spill
,
gloaming
,
downslope
,
tumble
,
declivity
,
decline
,
declination
,
descent
,
autumn
,
evenfall
,
gloam
,
downfall
,
declension
,
crepuscle
,
nightfall
,
dusk
,
free fall
,
drop
,
capitulation
,
wooden leg
,
nog
,
leg
,
pegleg
,
reefer
,
joystick
,
control stick
,
joint
,
spliff
,
marijuana cigarette
,
pivot man
,
masthead
,
flagstone
,
signal flag
,
sword lily
,
fleur-de-lis
,
iris
,
trap
,
ensnare
,
freeze
,
entrap
,
pin down
,
immobilize
,
snare
,
trammel
,
block
,
immobilise
Antonyms
unpin
Homophones
pinn
Rhymes
adin
,
akin
,
allin
,
allphin
,
alpin
,
amylin
,
askin
,
aslin
,
astin
,
aswin
,
atkin
,
bedouin
,
been
,
begin
,
bergin
,
berlin
,
bihn
,
bin
,
binn
,
blinn
,
boleyn
,
bongjin
,
brin
,
brinn
,
bryn
,
buckskin
,
bushkin
,
chagrin
,
chang-hsin
,
chin
,
chinh
,
chinn
,
dechine
,
deerskin
,
din
,
eldwin
,
elkin
,
emlyn
,
ervin
,
erwin
,
fin
,
finn
,
finne
,
flinn
,
flynn
,
foreskin
,
gin
,
ginn
,
glavine
,
glyn
,
glynn
,
grin
,
gwin
,
gwinn
,
gwyn
,
gwynn
,
gwynne
,
gyn
,
hamelin
,
has-been
,
herein
,
hinn
,
in
,
inn
,
itkin
,
jin
,
jocelin
,
joceline
,
jocelyn
,
jocelyne
,
kamin
,
katyn
,
kaylynn
,
kin
,
kingpin
,
kinn
,
kinne
,
knin
,
kyoung-min
,
levin
,
ligne
,
lin
,
linchpin
,
linh
,
linn
,
linne
,
lwin
,
lyn
,
lynn
,
mandolin
,
mcginn
,
mcguinn
,
mclin
,
mclinn
,
mcminn
,
mcquinn
,
mihn
,
min
,
minh
,
pigskin
,
pinn
,
prynne
,
puffin
,
qian
,
qin
,
quin
,
quinn
,
redskin
,
rinn
,
rinne
,
schwinn
,
sheepskin
,
shin
,
shinn
,
sin
,
sinn
,
skin
,
solzhenitsyn
,
spin
,
syn
,
tailspin
,
therein
,
thin
,
tin
,
trinh
,
twin
,
underpin
,
underspin
,
verduin
,
vin
,
violin
,
when
,
wherein
,
win
,
winn
,
winne
,
within
,
wynn
,
wynne
,
yalin
,
yan-bin
,
yin