Pin-1-indicator-stripe Definition

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A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

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A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

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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.

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

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(in plural pins; informal) A leg.

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

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verb

(often followed by a preposition such as to or on) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.

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(chess, usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

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(wrestling) To pin down (someone).

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To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

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(computing, graphical user interface) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.

To pin a window to the Taskbar.

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Origin of Pin-1-indicator-stripe

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"). 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 (“knitting-needle"), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick"), Icelandic pinni (“pin"). More at pintle.

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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.

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