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say it: pin
pin is a noun and verb meaning "a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment". It carries 15 recorded senses.
a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
to hold fast or prevent from moving
“The child was pinned under the fallen tree”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.