pin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
  2. A cataract of the eye.
  3. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
  4. 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.
  5. The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
  6. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
  7. A leg. in-plural,informal
    — I'm not so good on my pins these days.
  8. Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
    — The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
  9. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
  10. 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. US
  11. Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
  12. The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
  13. The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
    — The shot landed right on the pin.
  14. The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
    — For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
  15. A mood, a state of being. obsolete
    — Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]
  16. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
  17. Caligo. obsolete
    — Blind with the pin and web
  18. A thing of small value; a trifle.
    — He […] did not care a pin for her.
  19. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  20. A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  21. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  22. A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel. UK
    — Our ground crew were lodged in the main station, but they came to the cottage for a party when operations for the night had been cancelled and we had a new ‘gong’ (decoration) to celebrate. On these occasions we always installed a pin of bitter.
  23. A pinball machine. informal
    — I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
  24. A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
  25. An injection of PEDs. slang
动词 v.
  1. To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. often
  2. Alternative form of peen. alt-of,alternative
  3. To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  4. To pin down (someone).
    — He pinned his opponent on the mat.
  5. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  6. To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists. transitive
    — to pin a folder to the taskbar
  7. To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified. transitive
    — When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
  8. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range. transitive
    — Now I need to pin those needles.
  9. To inject for performance enhancement. ambitransitive,slang
  10. To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.

词形变化

pins plural pins present,singular,third-person pinning participle,present pinned participle,past pinned past pins present,singular,third-person pinning participle,present pinned participle,past pinned past pins plural

词汇关系

近义词
skittle
下位词
absolute pin relative pin partial pin
衍生词
mispin pin a rose on your nose pin back pin back one's ears pin down pin in pinnable pinnee pin on pin one's ears back pin one's hopes on pin the meter pin the tail on the donkey pin up repin underpin unpinnable
相关词
needle

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *pinnaz
Proto-West Germanic *pinn
Old English pinn
Middle English pinne
English 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”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
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 and pen (Etymology 3).
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