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

1. transitive verb. To peen.
2. transitive verb. To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
5. noun. Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
6. noun. That which resembles a pin in its form or use
7. noun. A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
8. noun. A linchpin.
9. noun. A rolling-pin.
10. noun. A clothespin.
11. noun. A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
12. noun. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
13. noun. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
14. noun. The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
15. noun. Mood; humor.
16. noun. Caligo. See Caligo.
17. noun. An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
18. noun. The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
19. noun. To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
20. noun. a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
21. noun. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

    Synonyms: oarlock, peg, rowlock, thole, tholepin

22. noun. a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
23. noun. a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
24. noun. flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

    Synonyms: flag

25. noun. 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
26. noun. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

    Synonyms: pivot

27. noun. informal terms for the leg

    "fever left him weak on his sticks"

    Synonyms: peg, stick

28. noun. a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
29. noun. small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

    Synonyms: peg

30. noun. when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

    Synonyms: fall

31. verb. immobilize a piece
32. verb. to hold fast or prevent from moving

    "The child was pinned under the fallen tree"

    Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, trap

33. verb. attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins. "pin the blame on the innocent man"

    "pin the needle to the shirt"

34. verb. pierce with a pin

    "pin down the butterfly"

Synonyms

oarlock, peg, rowlock, thole, tholepin, flag, pivot, stick, fall, immobilise, immobilize, trap

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pin:

nip

Common word forms

pins, pinal, pined, piner, pines, pining, pinned, pinner, pinless, pinning

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