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pin I. substantiv

1. ac cu gămălie; ac cu cap; ac de cravată; (rar) cui;

pins and needles furnicături (după amorţeală);

to be on pins and needles a sta (ca) pe ghimpi;

I don't care a pin nu-mi pasă câtuşi de puţin; mă doare-n cot;

not a pin to choose between them seamănă ca două picături de apă, nu e absolut nici o diferenţă între ei etc.;

not worth a row of pins nu face nici două parale / nici o ceapă degerată;

you might have heard a pin fall ai fi putut auzi zburând o muscă.

2. plural (fam.) picioare;

he is quick on his pins e iute de picior.

3. butoi (de 19,43 l.).

4. (muz.) cui.

5. popic.

6. (tehn.) ţintă; cui; piron, ţăruş; bulon; bolţ; diblu; cep.

7. vârf.

◊ (fam.) in a merry pin vesel, bine dispus.

pin II. verb tranzitiv

1. a prinde în / cu ace;

(fig.) to pin one’s faith on a-şi pune toată încrederea în, a avea o încredere oarbă în.

2. a străpunge; a înfige un ac în.

3. a bate în cuie; a ţintui;

to pin smb. (down) to a promise a obliga pe cineva să-şi ţină promisiunea.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The head of a pin is about 1 million nanometers across.

(Nanometer, Editura Global Info)

This day fortnight you'll hardly be a pin the worse of it: you've lost a little blood; that's all.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (PIN) is an NCI Cancer Therapeutic Evaluation Program (CTEP) Simplified Disease Classification (SDC) category used to organize cancer-related disease coding that harmonizes with and supports reporting based on the global standard Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Reporting (MedDRA) terminology.

(NCI CTEP SDC Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (PIN) Sub-Category Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

At this sign of coming aid the clerk held on the tighter, and at last was able to pin his man down and glanced behind him to see where all the noise was coming from.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall have a new ribbon for my hair, and Marmee will lend me her little pearl pin, and my new slippers are lovely, and my gloves will do, though they aren't as nice as I'd like.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

As to Mrs. Micawber, I don't know whether it was the effect of the cap, or the lavender-water, or the pins, or the fire, or the wax-candles, but she came out of my room, comparatively speaking, lovely.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They were interrupted by Mrs. Allen: My dear Catherine, said she, do take this pin out of my sleeve; I am afraid it has torn a hole already; I shall be quite sorry if it has, for this is a favourite gown, though it cost but nine shillings a yard.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

So I hailed with delight the little traits that proclaimed her only woman after all, such as the toss of the head which flung back the cloud of hair, and the search for the pin.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

After they had travelled along a little way, they met a needle and a pin walking together along the road: and the needle cried out, Stop, stop! and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way, and such dirty walking they could not get on at all: he told them that he and his friend, the pin, had been at a public-house a few miles off, and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was; he begged therefore that the travellers would be so kind as to give them a lift in their carriage.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The solar eclipse will be at four degrees, and Jupiter will be at five degrees, both in Capricorn, so the new moon eclipse and Jupiter will arrive on the head of a pin, and it thrills me to share this with you.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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