What's the difference between fasten and pin?

Fasten


Definition:

  • (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
  • (a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
  • (a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
  • (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
  • (2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
  • (3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
  • (4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
  • (5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
  • (6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
  • (7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
  • (8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
  • (9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
  • (10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
  • (11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
  • (12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
  • (13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
  • (14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
  • (15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
  • (16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
  • (17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
  • (19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
  • (20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.

Pin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To peen.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  • (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
  • (n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
  • (n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
  • (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
  • (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  • (n.) A linchpin.
  • (n.) A rolling-pin.
  • (n.) A clothespin.
  • (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  • (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
  • (n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
  • (n.) Mood; humor.
  • (n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
  • (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
  • (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
  • (n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
  • (2) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
  • (3) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
  • (4) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (6) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
  • (7) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
  • (8) A Charnley apparatus or turnbuckles placed between the pins on each side of the fracture provided the mechanical advantage for repositioning the fracture fragments and achieving rigid fixation during healing.
  • (9) Ankle arthrodesis treated by external fixation frequently results in complications from pin tract infections, loss of position, nonunion, and malunion.
  • (10) There were no cases of pin-track osteomyelitis, fractures through pintracks, or neurovascular damage from pin insertion.
  • (11) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
  • (12) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (13) The OECD pinned the blame for the disadvantage for girls in maths and science on low expectations among parents and teachers, as well as lack of self-confidence and what it called the ability to “think like a scientist” in answering problems.
  • (14) Retrograde intramedullary pinning was accomplished in all calves, using 2 (n = 4 calves) or 3 (n = 8 calves) pins.
  • (15) The defective pinF gene is suggested to hae the same origin as P-pin on e14 by the restriction map of the fragment cloned from a Pin+ transductant that was obtained in transduction from S. flexneri to E. coli delta pin.
  • (16) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
  • (17) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
  • (18) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
  • (19) In AP and lateral radiographs of the hip, measurements are made of the cervicofemoral angles, the diameter of the femoral head and neck, and the distances from the central femoral neck axis to each pin.
  • (20) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.

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