pin
/pɪn/ verb B1- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone). · He pinned his opponent on the mat.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists. · to pin a folder to the taskbar
- 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.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To inject for performance enhancement.
He/she/it pins · Past pinned · Past participle pinned · -ing form pinning
Verb forms
- Base form
- pin
- He/she/it
- pins
- Past
- pinned
- Past participle
- pinned
- -ing form
- pinning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill--and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck--the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
In the other corner was the aforesaid three-cornered table adorned with a fat, red velvet pincushion hard enough to turn the point of the most adventurous pin.
“Lots of little girls there had bouquets pinned on their dresses.
“Y-e-e-s,” admitted Anne, “I took it up and I pinned it on my breast just to see how it would look.”
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