(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.
Rung
Definition:
() of Ring
(p. p.) of Ring
() imp. & p. p. of Ring.
(n.) A floor timber in a ship.
(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
(2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
(3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
(4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
(5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
(6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
(7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
(8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
(9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
(10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
(11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
(12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
(13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
(14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
(15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
(16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
(17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
(18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
(19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
(20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.