English Dictionary

pin

IPA（発音記号）

/pɪn/

名詞

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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. / A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

日本語の意味

（名詞）針：眼（穴）がなく、鋼線から作られる細長い針状の金属製具。一端が鋭く、もう一端が平らまたは丸く加工されており、主に物を留めるために使用される。 / （名詞）小さな釘：頭部と尖った先端を持つ、小型の釘のような固定具。

She used a pin to temporarily hold the fabric in place while altering the dress.

ドレスの仕立て直し中に、布を一時的に固定するために小さな待ち針を使った。

意味（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.

意味（2）

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

意味（5）

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

意味（6）

(informal, in the plural) A leg.

I'm not so good on my pins these days.

意味（7）

(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.

意味（8）

A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.

意味（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.

意味（10）

(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.

意味（11）

(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole

意味（12）

(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

The shot landed right on the pin.

意味（13）

(archery) 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.

意味（14）

(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.

Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]

意味（15）

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.

意味（16）

(medicine, obsolete) Caligo.

Blind with the pin and web

意味（17）

A thing of small value; a trifle.

He […] did not care a pin for her.

意味（18）

A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

意味（19）

(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

意味（20）

The tenon of a dovetail joint.

意味（21）

(UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.

意味（22）

(informal) A pinball machine.

I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.

意味（23）

(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.

pins （ plural ）