Meaning of pin In English

• 0 a small thin piece of metal with a point at one end, especially used for temporarily holding pieces of cloth together:

  • I'll keep the trouser patch in place with pins while I sew it on.

  • If you pull the pin out of a hand-grenade, it'll explode.

  • a two-pin/three-pin electrical plug

  • Doctors inserted a metal pin in his leg to hold the bones together.

  • a hat/tie pin

• 1 an image that you can save and share with other people on Pinterest (= a social media website):

  • You can organize pins into different topics.

  • Most pins link back to the original website they appeared on.

• 2 a leg:

  • Grandpa's very old now and he's very shaky on his pins.

• 3 In the game of chess, a pin is a special move that stops the other player from moving one of their pieces, because to move it will put another more valuable piece in danger:

  • That nasty pin stopped me from moving my knight.

• 4 to fasten something with a pin:

  • A large picture of the president was pinned to/(up) on the office wall.

  • She had pinned up her beautiful long hair.

• 5 to copy and save a website link, computer program, email message, etc. and add it to a social media page or a place on your computer screen:

  • You can see who has pinned images from your blog.

  • She showed me how to pin a website to the taskbar.

  • The pinned tweet stays at the top of your profile page, so it’s the first thing people read when they access that page.

• 6 to force someone or something to stay in a particular place by putting weight on him, her, or it:

  • She was pinned (down) under a pile of rubble.

  • A guy leaped out at me and pinned me (up) against the wall.

• 7 abbreviation for personal identification number : a secret number that a person uses together with a special card to get money from their bank account out of a machine, or when paying by credit card

• 8 a thin piece of stiff wire with a pointed end that you can stick through two things to fasten them together:

  • Mary put a pin in her hair to hold her hat on.

  • She wore a beautiful gold pin on her coat.

• 9 to hold someone or something firmly in the same position or place:

  • After the earthquake there were several people pinned in the wreckage.

  • fig. No one could pin the label of "conservative" on him (= call him that).

• 10 fastened:

  • She kept a map of Manhattan pinned on the wall.

• 11 abbreviation for personal identification number (= a secret number that can be read by a computer to prove who you are):

  • I punched my PIN into the ATM machine and took out $100.

• 12 abbreviation for personal identification number: a secret number used with a bank card or credit card to get money from a cash machine or pay for goods in a store:

  • Please enter your PIN number.