pin

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.

No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather.

• enPR: pĭn, IPA^(key): /pɪn/, [pʰɪn]

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: pen (pin-pen merger)

pin (plural pins)

1. 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.

2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
3. 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. (wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
5. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
6. (informal, in the plural) A leg.

   I'm not so good on my pins these days.

7. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

   The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.

8. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
9. (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 affiliation, etc.

   Synonyms: badge, lapel pin

10. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
11. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
12. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

    The shot landed right on the pin.

    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

      the very pin of his heart cleft

13. (dated) A mood, a state of being.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Cowper

      a merry pin

14. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
15. (medicine, obsolete) caligo

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

16. A thing of small value; a trifle.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Spectator

      He […] did not care a pin for her.

17. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
18. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
19. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
20. (Britain, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
21. (informal) A pinball machine.

    I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.

• (small nail): nail, tack
• (cylinder of wood or metal): peg
• (games): skittle
• (jewellery fastened with a pin): brooch

• (jewellery fastened with a pin): breastpin
• (chess): absolute pin, relative pin, partial pin

• needle

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
2. (chess, usually passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
3. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
5. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.

   to pin a window to the Taskbar

6. (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.

7. Alternative form of peen

• pin down
• pin in
• pin on
• pin the tail on the donkey
• pin up
• underpin

• NIP, NPI, Nip, nip

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpin/

pin m (plural pins)

1. (electronics) lead
2. pin (ornament)

pin

1. holy

• fen

pin f (singulative pinen)

1. pines

• sab

pin

1. imperative of pine

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pin f (plural pinnen, diminutive pinnetje n)

1. peg, pin

pin

1. first-person singular present indicative of pinnen
2. imperative of pinnen

• nip

From Old French pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃/

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pin m (plural pins)

1. pine, pine tree

• “pin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin pīnus.

pin m (plural pins)

1. pine tree

pin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ピン

pin

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of pīt
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of pīt
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of pīt
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of pīt
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of pīt
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of pīt

pin

1. Nonstandard spelling of pīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǐn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pìn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

pin (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. To say
2. To tell (a story).
3. First-person singular realis mood form of pin.

• (tell a story): nvxamyen

From Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

pin m (plural pini)

1. pine

• brad

• (Rumantsch Grischun) pign
• (Sursilvan) pégn
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) pegn

From Latin pīnus.

pin m

1. (Puter, Vallader) spruce, fir

• (spruce): (Vallader) petsch

pin

1. woman

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Borrowed from English pin

pin m (plural pines)

1. pin, lapel pin
2. (electricity) pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

Borrowed from English PIN, acronym of personal identification number

• PIN

pin m (plural pines)

1. PIN, PIN number

Clipping of pinsam, with the same meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn/

pin (comparative mer pin, superlative mest pin)

1. (colloquial) embarrasing

   Så jäkla pin asså!

   So f--ing embarrassing!

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

From pina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn/

pin

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• om man vill vara fin, får man lida pin; vill man vara fin, får man lida pin

pin (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) very, really, super-

   Synonyms: jätte-, väldigt

• på pin kiv

Borrowed from English pin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪn/

pin n

1. Alternative form of pins

The form with -s is recommended since it's easier to decline in Swedish.

• pin in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

Borrowed from Armenian բույն (buyn, “nest”) (from Western Armenian pronunciation).

pin (definite accusative pini, plural pinler)

1. (dialectal) coop for poultry

• kümes

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• “pin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Borrowed from French pile.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [pin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [pin˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [pɨn˧˧]

(classifier cục) pin

1. a battery
2. the amount of electricity that a battery holds

   Điện thoại tao hết pin rồi.

   My phone is dead.

   (literally, “My phone has run out of "battery".”)

• đèn pin (“torch, flashlight”)

From Latin pīnus (compare Middle Irish pín).

• pîn

• IPA^(key): /piːn/

pin m (uncountable)

1. pine (tree or wood)

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pin to older pîn.

• pinwydd f pl

• pin-afal

From Latin penna, pinna (“feather, pen”).

• IPA^(key): /pɪn/

pin m (plural pinnau)

1. pen

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pìn to pin.

From Old English pinn.

• IPA^(key): /pɪn/

pin m (plural pinnau)

1. pin
2. bobbin

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pìn to pin.

• Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “pin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).

• IPA^(key): /pɪn/

pin

1. woman