Usually means: Fastener for securing or attaching.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. PIN, pin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. PIN, PIN, pin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. PIN, pin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. PIN, pin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pin, pin: Wordnik
  7. PIN (number), pin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. PIN, pin: Wiktionary
  9. pin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. PIN: Dictionary.com
  13. PIN, pin (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PIN, Pin (amateur wrestling), Pin (chess), Pin (computer program), Pin (device), Pin (disambiguation), Pin (film), Pin (professional wrestling), Pin (wrestling), Pin, The Pin (comedy act): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pin: Rhymezone
  19. pin, pin (de), pin (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pin: MyWord.info
  22. PIN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Pin, Pin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pin: Free Dictionary
  25. pin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Pin, pin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. PIN: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. PIN (debit card): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pin-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pin: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Pin: bizterms.net
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. pin: Legal dictionary
  6. pin: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. PIN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PIN: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. pin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. PIN: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. PIN: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. pin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PIN: Acronym Finder
  3. PIN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. pin: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pin, pin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pin: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Pin: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Pin: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. Pin: 1960's Slang
  6. P.I.N, The Pin: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pin: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. pin: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Pin: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pin: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. PIN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  7. pin: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  8. Pin: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  9. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Pin: Brew Monkey Glossary
  11. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
noun:  A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
noun:  (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
noun:  A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
noun:  (informal, in the plural) A leg.
noun:  (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
noun:  A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (chess) 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.
noun:  (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
noun:  (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
noun:  (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
noun:  (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
noun:  One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
noun:  (medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
noun:  A thing of small value; a trifle.
noun:  A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
noun:  (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
noun:  The tenon of a dovetail joint.
noun:  (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
noun:  (informal) A pinball machine.
noun:  (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
noun:  (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
verb:  (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
verb:  (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
verb:  (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
verb:  To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
verb:  (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
verb:  (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
verb:  (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
verb:  (bodybuilding, slang, transitive, intransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
verb:  Alternative form of peen [To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.]
noun:  Acronym of personal identification number. [A number used to confirm an individual's identity, e.g. when using an ATM or a mobile phone, or when making payment using a credit card or debit card.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of preferred IUPAC name.

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