Pin

Russian Meaning

English Meaning

1. A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.
2. Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.
3. A whit; a jot: didn't care a pin about the matter.
4. A slender, usually cylindrical piece of wood or metal for holding or fastening parts together, or serving as a support for suspending one thing from another, as:
5. A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
6. A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.
7. A cotter pin.
8. The part of a key stem entering a lock.
9. Music One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.
10. Nautical A belaying pin.
11. Nautical A thole pin.
12. An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.
13. A rolling pin.
14. Sports One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.
15. Sports A flagstick.
16. Sports See fall.
17. Informal The legs: spry for his age, and steady on his pins.
18. Electronics A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.
19. Computer Science Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.
20. Computer Science Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.
21. Computer Science Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.
22. To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.
23. To transfix.
24. To place in a position of trusting dependence: He pinned his faith on an absurdity.
25. To hold fast; immobilize: The passenger was pinned under the wreckage of the truck.
26. Sports To win a fall from in wrestling.
27. To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.
28. Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
29. pin down To fix or establish clearly: was finally able to pin down the cause of the disease.
30. pin down To force (someone) to give firm opinions or precise information: The reporter pinned the governor down on the issue of capital punishment.
31. pin on To attribute (a crime) to (someone): The murder was pinned on the wrong suspect.