Dictionary Entry
pin
pin is a 3-letter English word with 34 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To peen. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 34 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To peen.
- 2transitive verb
To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
- 5noun
Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
- 6noun
That which resembles a pin in its form or use
- 7noun
A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- 8noun
A linchpin.
- 9noun
A rolling-pin.
- 10noun
A clothespin.
- 11noun
A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- 12noun
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- 13noun
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
- 14noun
The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
- 15noun
Mood; humor.
- 16noun
Caligo. See Caligo.
- 17noun
An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
- 18noun
The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
- 19noun
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
- 20noun
a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- 21noun
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- 22noun
a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- 23noun
a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- 24noun
flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
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- 25noun
cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- 26noun
axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
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- 27noun
informal terms for the leg
"fever left him weak on his sticks"
- 28noun
a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
- 29noun
small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
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- 30noun
when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
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- 31verb
immobilize a piece
- 32verb
to hold fast or prevent from moving
"The child was pinned under the fallen tree"
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- 33verb
attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins. "pin the blame on the innocent man"
"pin the needle to the shirt"
- 34verb
pierce with a pin
"pin down the butterfly"
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