(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.
Pincushion
Definition:
(n.) A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contour positions are corrected for pincushion distortion.
(2) Previously reported and novel correction techniques were used to reduce veiling glare, pincushion distortion, dc bias, and residual shading effects.
(3) The pincushion distortion can be "corrected" (reducing displacements from 5 to 1-2 mm) by calculations based on modeling the distortion as a fourth order two-dimensional polynomial.
(4) 7) conglomerated into pincushion-like formations becoming increasingly denser and more compact.
(5) While the standard design often results in tissue protrusions or pincushioning, improvements in the design are outlined herein to achieve the best results for defects on the nose.
(6) No more 'pincushioning' - if you worried Cinema screens are often curved due to the way the picture is projected onto the screen.
(7) The pincushion distortion can be "corrected" (reducing displacements from 2-3 mm to 1 mm) by calculations based on modeling the distortion as a fourth order 2D polynomial.
(8) If necessary, these errors in position can be assessed by means of two phantoms placed within the stereotactic guidance system--a "2D-phantom" displaying "pincushion" distortion in the image, and a "3D-phantom" displaying displacement, warp, and tilt of the image plane itself.
(9) The illusion generated by a "pincushion grid" is not predicted from the two-dimensional Fourier transform of the grid.
(10) The picture will seem to warp inwards - a distortion called the pincushion effect.
(11) Magnification errors can be evaluated easily but the distortion (due to pincushion effect) are more difficult to measure.
(12) We spent a small fortune on three stabs at fertility treatment at a clinic in Cape Town, but that produced nothing other than a suntan and buttocks like pincushions after daily injections of hormones.
(13) These errors in position can be assessed by means of two phantoms placed within the stereotactic guidance system--a "two-dimensional phantom" displaying "pincushion" distortion in the image (i.e., x, y) plane, and the "three-dimensional phantom" displaying displacement, warp, and tilt of the image plane itself.
(14) A numerical Fourier transform was made of the pincushion grid illusion and the spectral components orthogonal to the illusory lines were isolated.
(15) To minimize the geometric influence, mainly pincushion effect, a cinefilm of a 1 cm grid was placed against the input screen of the image intensifier to correct the distortion by using 3rd degree polynomials.
(16) As Ian prepares for the half-mile-long return journey, he points a fistful of oily cotton waste towards the purple thistle-like flowerheads of knapweed, the pink, white and blue pincushion-shaped flowers of scabious, and the vivid blue of cornflower.
(17) The interface-controller operates extremely well, but problems related to the pulsed SIT (optimum gate position relative to the sector opening shape of high-voltage pulse, slight pincushion distortion) require more work.