pin

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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.
2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
3. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
4. The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
5. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
6. (in-plural, informal) A leg.
7. Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
8. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
9. (US) 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.
10. 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.
11. The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
12. The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
13. The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
14. (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
15. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
16. (obsolete) Caligo.
17. A thing of small value; a trifle.
18. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
19. A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
20. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
21. (UK) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
22. (informal) A pinball machine.
23. A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
24. (slang) An injection of PEDs.

Verb

1. (often) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
2. To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
3. To pin down (someone).
4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
5. (transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
6. (transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
7. (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
8. (ambitransitive, slang) To inject for performance enhancement.
9. To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.

Verb

Alternative form of peen.

Concepts

épingle

broche

goupille

cheville

épinglette

clouage

goujon

quille

tenir

pivot

épingler

pincer

drapeau

pointe

clouer

taquet

pavillon

tolet

épingle à nourrice

🧷

cheville d’accord

pion

rouleau

semence

tomber

clavette

🔑

ficher

prise mâle

tenon

tourillon

simbleau

maneton

centreur

dame de nage

Dame de nage

pin's

attelloire

locating

agrafer

cheville de contact

attacher

automne

barre

borne

bouton

boutonner

brochette

cheviller

clou

collet

dame

Opposé de

unpin

Synonymes

peg

needle

fasten

nail

brooch

tack

key

🔑

dowel

clasp

attach

bolt

bowling pin

fix

wedge

skittle

cotter

thorn

fall

stick

spike

safety pin

🧷

bond

clip

affix

immobilize

hold

flag

bind

skewer

pin tumbler

thumbtack

rowlock

stake

pivot

pin up

post

pintle

prickle

linchpin

league

leg

🦵

catch

join

immobilise

ninepin

link

🔗

cam

finger

freeze

cone

Traductions

alfiler

Stecknadel

alfinete

spillo

speld

spilla

Stift

καρφίτσα

pino

clavar

perno

Bolzen

pin

prendedor

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pinne

Hérité de ancien anglais: pinn

Appartenant à néerlandais: pin

Appartenant à bas-allemand: pin

Appartenant à allemand: Pinn

Appartenant à bavarois: Pfonzer

Appartenant à danois: pind

Appartenant à norvégien: pinn

Appartenant à suédois: pinne

Appartenant à islandais: pinni

Appartenant à latin: pinna

Appartenant à latin: penna

In summary

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).