pin
noun/pɪn/
Слово англійською: pin
Переклад pin українською: шпи́лька (для прико́лювання), ца́пфа, штифт, прити́снути кого́/що до чо́го, значо́к (поліце́йський і т. д.), мура́шки, заціпені́ння, кача́лка, англі́йська шпи́лька
Детальний опис
- a short thin piece of stiff wire with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth when sewing
- Use pins to keep the patch in place while you sew it on.
- a short thin piece of stiff wire with a sharp point at one end and an item of decoration at the other, worn as jewellery
- a diamond pin
- (especially North American English) (also brooch especially in British English)a piece of jewellery with a pin on the back of it, that can be fastened to your clothes
- (especially North American English) a type of badge that is fastened with a pin at the back
- He supports the group and wears its pin on his lapel.
- an American flag lapel pin
- a piece of steel used to support a bone in your body when it has been broken
- The pin in her spine will have to be changed as she grows.
- one of the metal parts that stick out of an electric plug and fit into a socket
- a 2-pin plug
- a wooden or plastic object that is like a bottle in shape and that players try to knock down in games such as bowling see also ninepins, tenpin
- a stick with a flag on top of it, placed in a hole so that players can see where they are aiming for
- The ball stopped five feet short of the pin.
- pins[plural] (informal) a person’s legs
- He’s not as quick on his pins as he used to be.
- a small piece of metal on a hand grenade that stops it from exploding and is pulled out just before the hand grenade is thrown
for fastening/joining
jewellery
badge
medical
electrical
in games
in golf
legs
on small bomb
Word Originlate Old English pinn, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pin ‘pin, peg’, from Latin pinna ‘point, tip, edge’.
Idioms
be on pins and needles (North American English)
(also (be) on tenterhooks British and North American English)
- (to be) very anxious or excited while you are waiting to find out something or see what will happen
- I've been on pins and needles all week waiting for the results.
for two pins
- (British English, old-fashioned) used to say that you would like to do something, even though you know that it would not be sensible
- I'd kill him for two pins.
- For two pins I’d tell her what I really think of her.
you could hear a pin drop
- it was extremely quiet
- The audience was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.